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چ — English and Urdu Meaning, Phonetics and Definition

če
Pronunciation:Standard: /če/
miscOrigin: Native Pashto → PashtoVerified sense 1
Quick Lexicographical Summary · چټک تعریف او پېژندنه

چ (če) is a Pashto misc meaning “the eighth letter of the Pashto alphabet” in English او په اردو کې د «ثمن، آٹھواں، حرف» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards.

Meanings2

ماناوې او تعریفونه
1
the eighth letter of the Pashto alphabet
ثمن، آٹھواں، حرف
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2
[Classical] چ c̱ẖe , also called c̱ẖīm or jīm-i-fārsī , and jīm- aœjamī , is the seventh letter of the Persian, and the ninth of the Puś̱ẖ to alphabet, and is never found in Arabic words. Its sound is as ch in the English word ʻcheek.ʼ As a numeral it stands for 3, like the letter چ[classical]
Page 350 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Native Pashto
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Idioms2

اصطلاحات
Idiom

چ ونګی چ ونګی کول

to crush, grind up

Idiom

چ ونګی چ ونګی کول ور

to do or produce a bit at a time

Grammar — Word forms

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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 چ (če) 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.

Peer-reviewed lexicographical standard · Open Pashto Corpus Edition

Nearby words

نږدې او ورته لغتونه