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Punjabi
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit *अवलय (avalaya).
Pronunciation
Noun
اولھا • (olhā) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਓਲ੍ਹਾ)
- cover; veil; screen
- Synonyms: پَرْدَہ (pardah), لُکا (lukā)
1999, Zahid Hasan, عشق لتاڑے آدمی [ʻiśq latāṛe ādamī, For love to trample man] (fiction), Lahore, page 98:میرے ناں میرے مراتبے دا تاں ایویں اولھا ای ہے.- mere nāṉ mere marātbe dā tāṉ aivīṉ olhā ī hai.
- My names are merely just a cover for my ranks.
- cover; refuge; protection
- Synonyms: اوٹ (oṭ), پَناہ (panāh), پَناہ گاہ (panāh gāh)
1996, Farzand Ali, کنڈ پِچھے اکھاں [kanḍ picche akkhāṉ, Eyes behind thorns], Lahore, →OCLC, page 7:عام زندگی تے کہانی وچالے نہ کوئی اولھا ہون٘دا اے تے نہ کوئی جھاکا- 'ām zindagī te kahāṇī vicāle na koī olhā hondā ai te na koī jhākā
- In the midst of everyday life and stories, there is no cover, nor any caution
- cover; help; patronage
- Synonym: آسْرا (āsrā)
Declension
Further reading
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “اولھّا”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
- “ਓਲ੍ਹਾ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*avalaya”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 36