بولنا

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Punjabi

Etymology

Inherited from Paisaci Prakrit (compare Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀩𑁄𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀤𑀺 (bolladi)). Compare Urdu بولنا, Marathi बोलणे (bolṇe), Bengali বলা (bola).

Pronunciation

Verb

بولݨا (bolṇā) (Gurmukhi spelling ਬੋਲਣਾ)

  1. to speak, say
    مَیْں انگریْزی نَئیں بوْلدا آں۔
    maiṉ اngrezī na'īṉ boldā āṉ.
    I cannot speak English.

Conjugation

References

  • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “بولن”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
  • ਬੋਲਣਾ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀩𑁄𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀤𑀺 (bolladi), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀩𑁄𑀮𑁆𑀮𑁆 (*boll, to speak, utter). Compare Bengali বলা (bola), Assamese বোলা (büla), Marathi बोलणे (bolṇe), Punjabi ਬੋਲਣਾ (bolṇā) / بولݨا (bolṇā). Also compare بُلَانَا (bulānā, to call).

Perhaps further from Sanskrit *बूर्यते (būryate), a metathesized form of ब्रूयते (brūyate), from the root ब्रू (brū, speak, say).

Pronunciation

Verb

بولْنا (bolnā) (Hindi spelling बोलना)

  1. to speak
  2. to tell
  3. to say

Conjugation

  • Note: The second-person polite form آپ (āp) (āp) uses the third-person plural conjugation.

References

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*bōll”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
  2. ^ Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1926) The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, volume 2, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 876

Further reading

  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بولنا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.