विक्षनरी:गयानी-हिन्दी शब्दकोश
- Guyanese Hindi Dictionary
यहाँ गयानी-हिन्दी के प्रचलित शब्दों के अंग्रेजी में अर्थ दिये गये हैं।
aant ke saant -- carelessly
आरती -- worship during which a thari is circulated around the object of worship abir red powder used during Pagwah
abrak -- powder
अचार -- condiment made with masala; pickle
अगरबती -- incense
आगे -- infront
अगुआ -- matchmaker for arranged marriages
आजा/आजी -- Paternal grandfather/grandmother
आलू -- potato
आलू रोटी -- potato roti
आर्य समाज -- Hindu reformation movement based on the Vedas ashram building where religious instruction is provided atar perfume mostly used in pujas
बांसुरी -- flute specifically Krishna’s flute
बाप रे बाप -- Oh God!
बाबू -- Mister
बच्चा -- child
बचें -- children
बदाम लछ -- a sweet treat similar to candy floss or soan papdi bahu daughter-in-law
बैगन -- eggplant
बैगन चोखा -- roasted, seasoned and mashed eggplant
बैगनी -- sliced and fried eggplant
बैठो -- sit
बाजै -- beat (drums)
bandhania -- cilantro
bansuri -- flute
bara -- savoury snack; moong beans pancake
बरात -- wedding procession
बर्तन -- cooking utensils/vessels
बहन -- sister
बहनोई -- sister’s husband
बेलना -- rolling pin
बेटा -- son (or daughter)
बेटी -- daughter
बिटिया -- female child
बेले -- use rolling pin
भाई -- brother
भैया -- Big brother
भाजी -- spinach/ vegetables
भंडारा -- cooked food storage area
भौजी -- Brother’s wife
भोजन -- food
भूख लगी -- hungry
bhoongi -- bump that results from hitting your head
bhunjal -- a dry curry
बिछौना -- bed
bilimbi -- small sour green fruit used to make achar
बिना -- without
बिन्दी -- decoration worn on the forehead
बिरहा -- songs of separation from a beloved (UP Ahir community) bodhi long beans (Trinidad)
बोड़ा -- long beans (Guyana)
brigah -- snobbish
bunbunai --
bundari --
camranga -- carambola/ five-finger fruit
करैला -- bitter melon
कच्चा -- not yet ripe
कटहर -- jackfruit
चाचा / चाची -- Father’s brother/ Father’s brother’s wife
छाँछी -- remnants left over after the coconut fat has been fried to make oil chaatay lick
चादर -- sheet
चलो -- let’s go
चमार -- leather workers caste
चमके --
chanchi -- fried remnants left behind when making coconut oil
चाँद -- moon
चन्दन -- sandalwood
चाना -- chick peas
चप्पल -- slipper
चढ़ावे -- make a religious offering
चरपाई -- bed
चीनी -- sugar
chela -- student
chhalni -- sieve
chimta -- tongs
chokha -- traditional dish of Bihar; generally a seasoned mashed/ground vegetable (aloo, coconuchotah pancake
chowki -- implement used in conjunction with the belna to roll rotis
chul chul -- restless, bad behaved child
chulha -- fireside
chunkay -- seasoning foods with garlic and jeera fried in oil
churile -- Spirit of a woman usually
churki -- single lock of hair in the middle of the head which is kept when the entire head is shavchutka junior relative
चटनी -- condiment
कुल्ली -- day wage labourer/ porter
कोढ़ी -- lazy
चुस्ती -- game of quickness, dexterity
dabit -- brother in law
daboo -- ladle
दादा -- big brother
दही -- yogurt
दक्षिना -- offering to Brahmins
दाल -- split peas
दालपुड़ी -- bread filled with ground dal
dantal -- musical instrument – music is created when a horseshoe shape metal comes in contact dar offering of milk
डरपोक -- coward
दारू -- alcohol
दतवन -- twig toothbrush
देखो -- look
देवर -- husband’s younger brother
धनिया -- cilantro/ coriander seasoning
धन्यवाद -- thank you
धर्म -- duty
धूप -- pine wood used during a puja
धोती -- Indian men’s wear loosely wrapped around the lower half of the body Didi older sister
दिन -- day
दिवली -- Hindu festival
दिया -- earthen oil lamp
दोगला/दुगला -- half-caste
दोस्ती रोटी -- two rotis rolled out and cooked together
दूध -- milk
दूध पिट्टी -- porridge made from leftover roti and milk
dulahin -- bride
dular -- a spoiled child is said to have dular
dulhan/ dulaha -- groom
e -- it
eid -- Muslim festival
gaff -- chat
galihaar -- necklace
gana -- song
ganda -- bad
garam masala -- mix of spices
गाड़ी -- car
गारी/गाली -- abusing words
गीत -- song
गेंदा -- marigold
घर -- house
घाट -- bathing/washing area over a body of water ghee clarified butter
ghotay -- repeat over and over
ghotni -- swizzle stick normally used to cook dal
गोबर -- cowdung
ग्रह -- period of bad luck/ planetary alignments are unsuitable gujiya deep fried pastry stuffed with sweet shredded coconut gunghroo anklet of metallic bells
गुरमुसहा -- a person who doesn’t speak much
जिमखाना -- gymnasium
haat -- hand
Habar dhabar -- quickly
halaal -- food and drink permitted by Islamic law
halwa -- sweet dessert
haram -- food and drink not permitted by Islamic law harmonium key based musical instrument frequently used with dholak hathi elephant
hawan -- kund vessel in which fire offering to the Gods are made jaata stick
jai mala -- garland of flowers used during Indian weddings jamoon purple fruit
janam -- birth
janam janam -- birth after birth (reincarnation)
जनमाष्टमी -- Lord Krishna’s birthday
जनमदिन -- birthday
झारे -- Use of a pointer broom to ward off bad-eye jhajh ship
जहाजी भाई -- ship brother
झलका -- welt caused by a burn
झंडी -- flag
झंझट -- troubles
jhankelar --
झाड़ा -- broom
झारे -- to remove the evil eye using a pointer from a broom jhingi gourd vegetable
झुमका -- type of earring with a bell shaped bottom jigjhoray/jhakjhorna to shake violently
जिलेबी -- deep fried mixture of flour, sugar, milk
जीरा -- cumin-masala
जोड़ा जाम -- pink or yellow men’s wedding wear
झुनझुनी -- A cramp in your leg or arm from being in the same position too long
जूता -- shoes
जूठा -- food that had already been eaten/touched by someone else kachori savoury snack
काजल -- eyeliner
काला -- black
kalballai --
काली -- Dark-skinned female goddess character by her necklace of skulls kangala wretched
कंगन / कक्कन -- protection worn by bride/groom before marriage; it is removed on the day after the we(kakkan is Bhojpuri, kangan is Hindi) kani woman with a problematic eye
kanta -- fake
कन्यादान -- bride
कपड़े -- clothing
कराही -- rounded cooking pot
करैला -- bitter melon
karhi pholorie -- cooked in sour yogurt gravy
कर्म -- law of cause/effect
कटहर -- jackfruit
कथा -- story
कीड़ा -- white mouth
खाजा -- edible sweet white growth in an over mature dried coconut kheer sweet rice
कीर्तन -- group of bhajan singers using the call and response format kitab book
खिचड़ी -- dish of rice and dal usually eaten on Saturdays
खूबे -- bellyful
कोढ़ी -- lazy
कुल -- family
kulachan/ kulakshan -- bothersome
कुर्ता -- Indian wear for the upper half of the body
लबर लबर करना (लबलब) -- anyhow/ carelessly
labara -- liar
लंगड़ा -- person who walks with a limp
lapsi -- sweetmeat normally prepared at the bith of a child using a special masala larka boy
लड़की -- girl
लाठी -- stick
लावा -- puffed rice
लोढ़ा सील -- grinding implements used together to make seasoning pastes and chokha lota drinking vessel
lukhni -- woman who accompanies bride to her husband’s house after the wedding lungayra
majee -- Muslim priest
मक्खी चूस -- miser
माला -- garland
माली -- flowers in a woman’s hair (Tamil)
मामू/मामी -- Mother’s brother/ Mother’s brother’s wife
मंदिर -- Hindu temple
mangeena -- item used to wash dishes; often made of coconut husk Mangrela fenugreek-masala
मांजे -- bartan wash dishes
मंत्र -- words of prayer believed to have special powers when recited maro nuptial canopy (Hindi-mandap)
मसाला -- mix of spices
मसजिद -- mosque
माटीकोड़ -- Prayers to Mother Earth (matti-Earth, kor-dig) matya
मौसा -- father’s sister’s husband
मौसी -- father’s sister
मेला -- fair
मिलाओ -- meet
मिठाई -- sweets
मोहनभोग प्रसादम -- food offering to the Gods
मउर / मौर -- dulhan’s headdress
मूड़न -- one of the Hindu samskars performed a few months after a baby is born murgatani mulligatani; hot soup of meat and vegetables murti image or representation of a God
ना -- no
नारा -- stomach pain
नागिन -- snake
नाना/नानी -- Maternal grandfather/grandmother
नेवता -- wedding invitation
नवरात्रि -- nine night Hindu festival ddedicated to the Godesses neechay down
नीम -- tree the leaves of which has various medicinal qualities nenwah gourd vegetable
oh fo -- uh-oh
ओढ़नी -- head scarf
ouchay -- a ritual using garlic and prayer to remove the evil-eye/bad eye paag the syrupy mixture of sugar and water used to coat mithai pagla/pagli crazy
पगड़ी -- man’s headwear/ turban
पैसे -- money
pakkan --
पानी -- water
parahar -- loose/non sticky (as in perfectly cooked rice) paratha roti
पचौनी -- organs and intestines of a goat/sheep finely cut and bunjal patkay (pahat ke)/ paat diya beat brutally
पीछे -- behind
पीढ़ा -- stool
पेड़ा -- Indian sweet made of milk and sugar
फगुआ -- Holi
फूल -- flower
pilaf/ pelau -- rice dish containing beans and spices
पित्रि पक्ष् -- time dedicated to worship of ancestors
polouri -- deep fried snack made of dal flour
फूहर -- careless/ sloppy
पुजारी -- priest
फुंकनी -- a hollow pipe used to blow air to start a fire
प्रनाम -- greeting
परसाद -- food that is first offered to God
पूजा -- Hindu religious ceremony
प्ंडित -- Hindu priest
फुफ्फू (फुआ)/फुफ्फा -- Father’s sister/ Father’s sister’s husband
पूड़ी -- fried bread
रात -- night
राखी -- (from the fire side) ash used to mangay pots
रक्षा बन्धन -- celebration of the bond between siblings; raksha-sacred thread, bandan-bond ram ram Hindu greeting in praise of Ram
roat -- A fried bread offered to Hanuman during puja
रोटी -- Indian bread
रुमाल -- headwear (madras)
साने -- mix and eat food with hands
साबुन (sabhund) -- soap
सादा रोटी -- plain roti
सहेली -- female friend
साइबाला/सरबाला -- From the days of arranged child marriages a brother or cousin of the bridegroom woul
बरात -- over far distances in case something happened to the groom he would then becoculture changed and couples got married at a more mature age the tradition was still mgroom was accompanied by a saiballa,a little boy dressed similar to the groom.
सैजन -- drumsticks (vegetable)
sakchul --
sal sev -- chicken foot; fried snack made of ground dal dough thinly sliced and fried samdhi father in law of a person’s daughter/son
समधिन -- mother in law of a person’s daughter/son
सनातन धर्म -- The duty of Hindus to uphold their culture
साने -- mix food (dhal and rice) eat with your hands
संगीत -- song
sapi -- long cloth potholder
सपना -- dream
सारंगी -- musical instrument like flute
साड़ी -- women’s wear consisting of yards of cloth elegantly wrapped around the body saro bhai brother in law (Hindi Equivalent sala can be an insult) sasur/ sasural -- in laws
सीढ़ी -- step
सेम -- running bean
शाबाश -- very good
सलवार -- women’s wear consisting of loose trousers and a long tunic shivraatri Night of Shiva; Hindus celebrate Lod Shiva’s birthday sindoor red powder applied to the mang and forehead ofa woman to signify she’s married sirni sweetmeat similar to mohanbhog, primarily made by Muslims suhar pig
सुनो -- listen
सूरज -- sun
सुरवा -- gravy from the curry
सुसके -- cry
सूसू -- urinate
तान -- music
ताबीज -- talisman to protect against evil
तबला -- drums
ताड़ी -- (thali) brass plate
तरकारी -- vegetables (same as bhagi)
तारू -- roof of the mouth
tassa -- kind of drum
तावा -- circular utensil on which roti is cooked
theatar -- stubborn
टिक्का -- dot placed to ward off the evil eye
तीरथ/कार्तिक -- Hindu festival where worship is done at sea
तुलसी -- plant from the basil family; has religious significance to Hindus turmeric haldi/dye
ऊपर् -- up
उठो -- get up
यहाँ -- here
जग्य -- sacrifice/sacrificial ritual