| Chapter : | Brief Introduction to the Herati Dialect |
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Vocabulary Of Dialectal and Common Words
(nouns and adjectives)
âlâ (awalhâ > awalâ > âlâ): beginning
ârugâ(-vo) bârugâ [Fikrat 1976, 3]: pomp; splendid house
âxerbâri [Fikrat 1976, 2]: limit, extreme end; final
adə/adε/hadε: side; part (of a road, way, etc.)
alal: short breathing
allöuv [Fikrat 1976, 10]: immoral, good-for-nothing
amdar (< hamdard): sympathetic, friendly; buddy
amdesti/hamdesti: help
amlε: moment, second
ammâġ (< ambâġ) [Fikrat 1976, 10]: term applied to a wife of a polygamist
anjâma: size
arbâb [Afghani Nawis 1985, 12]: village elder
bâbu: grandfather
bâdâr [Afghani Nawis 1985, 33]: master, lord, landowner
bâja/bâjε [Fikrat 1976, 16]: husband of wife's sister
bâjäxunε [Fikrat 1976, 16]: name of a popular musical instrument
bâlâjâ [Afghani Nawis 1985, 37]: higher government body/authority
bârdomi: crupper
bačεammε: cousin (paternal aunt's son)
bačεamu/bačêmu: cousin (paternal uncle's son)
barnâ (< bannâ) [Fikrat 1976, 25]: construction worker, builder
bazgar (< bazrgar) [Fikrat 1976, 23]: hired laborer working on land
bijânešin (< bi- + jâ + nešin): [lit.] without a place to live > homeless
binâyi (< binawâyi; -i-adjective suffix): helpless, despaired, beggar; blind
bidöuv: fast-running
borâr [Fikrat 1976, 21]: brother
borârandar [Fikrat 1976, 21]: stepbrother
borârzâdε: fraternal nephew
čâġel/čaġel: sieve for sifting grain