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ce
Pronunciation:Standard: /ce/
miscOrigin: Native Pashto → PashtoVerified sense 1
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څ (ce) is a Pashto misc meaning “the eleventh letter of the Pashto alphabet; in northern dialects it is pronounced as /s/ and can be accordingly changed by the letter س; in eastern dialects under stronger Indo-Aryan influence, it is also frequently replaced by /tʃ/ چ” in English او په اردو کې د «حرف، اکشر، پشتو» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards.

Meanings3

ماناوې او تعریفونه
1
the eleventh letter of the Pashto alphabet; in northern dialects it is pronounced as /s/ and can be accordingly changed by the letter س; in eastern dialects under stronger Indo-Aryan influence, it is also frequently replaced by /tʃ/ چ
حرف، اکشر، پشتو
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2
[Classical] څ ṯs̱e or ṯẕe , the seventh letter of the Puś̱ẖto alphabet, similar in sound to the letter tsode of the Hebrew and other Semitic dialects. There is no equivalent for it in the Sanskrit.[classical]
Page 301 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Native Pashto
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3
[Classical] څ ḏẕe or ḏs̱e is the eighteenth letter of the Puś̱ẖto alphabet, and is pronounced as dz or ds in English. There is no equivalent for it in either Arabic, Persian, or Sanskrit, but most of the Semitic languages have a letter of the same sound, and so have several of the Tartāriān dialects. It is used with some foreign words for ج and چ[classical]
Page 554 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Native Pashto
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Idioms1

اصطلاحات
Idiom

خه څې د د

Eastern instead of

Grammar — Word forms

د کلمې ګردان او بڼې
د کلمې اصل او ریښه(Word Origin & Etymology)
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Native Pashto

Native Pashto (Raverty 1860)

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Lexicographical Profile & Dialect Notes

علمي او ژبني معلومات

Grammar & Morphological Classification

The headword څ (ce) functions as a misc in standard Pashto lexicography. This entry synthesizes lexical evidence from 34 authoritative Afghan and international Pashto dictionaries, cross-referenced with modern frequency corpora to ensure trilingual accuracy.

Phonological & Dialectal Realization

Pronunciation diverges between the Southwestern (Kandahari) dialect and the Northeastern (Peshawari/Kabuled) standard. In Southwestern speech, phonemes maintain retroflex fricative distinctions, whereas Northeastern phonetics exhibit velar and postalveolar shifts. All acoustic transcriptions conform to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) standards adopted by the Pashto Academy.

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Nearby words

نږدې او ورته لغتونه
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