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کوڼ — English and Urdu Meaning, Phonetics and Definition

kuṇ
Pronunciation:Standard: /kuṇ/
Adjectiveplural: کاڼۀOrigin: Native Pashto → PashtoVerified sense 1
Quick Lexicographical Summary · چټک تعریف او پېژندنه

کوڼ (kuṇ) is a Pashto adj meaning “deaf” in English او په اردو کې د «بہرا» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards, plural form کاڼۀ, and 1 verified thesaurus relations.

Meanings2

ماناوې او تعریفونه
1
deaf
بہرا
Example in context:

کوڼ دوه واره خاندې

Source: PashDict Unified Lexicon · Register: generalStatus: verified
2
A tick, dog-louse[classical]
Example in context:

کوڼ سپی باد ته غاپی

Source: PashDict Unified Lexicon · Register: classicalStatus: verified

Proverbs (Mataloona)3 unique

ولسي متلونه
ولسي متل (Proverb)

«کوڼ دوه واره خاندې»

“The deaf person laughs twice.”

بہرا شخص دو بار ہنستا ہے۔

Cultural context: Reflects a folk observation about how a deaf person laughs once when hearing a joke poorly or late, and again when others laugh.
ولسي متل (Proverb)

«کوڼ سپی باد ته غاپی»

“The deaf dog barks at the wind.”

بہرا کتا ہوا کو دیکھ کر بھونکتا ہے۔

Cultural context: Used to describe someone who reacts blindly or futilely to invisible or nonexistent threats.
ولسي متل (Proverb)· 1 variant grouped

«یو کوڼ مه لري یو ړوند مه لري»

“One has a deaf person, the other has a blind person.”

ایک کے پاس بہرا ہے، دوسرے کے پاس اندھا ہے۔

Cultural context: Advises against mocking others' shortcomings, as everyone faces or lives with some form of imperfection or hardship.
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  • • یو کوڼ مه لری یو ړوند مه لری

Thesaurus: Synonyms & Antonyms(مترادفات او متضادات)

Semantic lexical relations verified from Achakzai Pashto Thesaurus & corpus data

Synonyms (هم‌مانا / مترادف لغتونه)1 synonym

Grammar — Word forms

د کلمې ګردان او بڼې
OpenPashto Morphology
Grammatical Formحالت او بڼه
پښتو بڼهPashto Form
Phoneticتلفظ
direct, masculine, plural
کاڼۀکاڼۀ
direct, feminine, singular
کڼهکڼه
direct, feminine, plural
کڼېکڼې
masculine, oblique, singular
کاڼۀکاڼۀ
masculine, oblique, plural
کڼوکڼو
feminine, oblique, singular
کڼېکڼې
feminine, oblique, plural
کڼوکڼو
masculine, singular, vocative
کوڼهکوڼه
masculine, plural, vocative
کڼوکڼو
feminine, singular, vocative
کڼېکڼې
feminine, plural, vocative
کڼوکڼو
Fem Plural (-e)
کوڼېkuṇ-e
Plural Oblique (-o)
کوڼوkuṇ-o
Abstract Noun (-wālay)
کوڼوالیkuṇ-wālay
State / Quality (-tob)
کوڼتوبkuṇ-tob
Comparative (-tar)
کوڼترkuṇ-tar
Superlative (-tarīn)
کوڼترینkuṇ-tarīn
Factitive Verb (To make ...)
کوڼ کولkuṇ kawəl
Inchoative Verb (To become ...)
کوڼ کېدلkuṇ kedəl

Examples from corpora4

قاموسي او ادبي شواهد

Attested real-world sentences grouped by source. Headwords highlighted in context.

OALD Master Corpus

کوڼ دوه واره خاندې

OALD Master Corpus

کوڼ سپی باد ته غاپی

Dunwoody Press (Zeeya A. Pashtoon)

کوڼ او ړوند کېدل

“idiom a to be deceived b to look through one's fingers”

Derived Forms2

اشتقاقي بڼې
کوڼوالی
کوڼتوب
د کلمې اصل او ریښه(Word Origin & Etymology)
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Native Pashto

Native Pashto (Bellew 1867)

PashDict Sovereign 34-to-1 Unified LexiconVerified Trilingual Academic Edition · CC BY 4.0

Lexicographical Profile & Dialect Notes

علمي او ژبني معلومات

Grammar & Morphological Classification

The headword کوڼ (kuṇ) functions as a adj 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