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Punjabi
Etymology
From وَٹاݨا (vaṭāṇā, “to exchange”).
Pronunciation
Noun
وَٹان٘دْرا • (vaṭāṉdrā) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਵਟਾਂਦਰਾ)
- exchange (an act of exchanging)
1997, Abdul Ghafoor Darshan, نخاس [naxās, Cattle Fair], Lahore: Institute of Punjabi Language & Culture, →OCLC, page 15:اِک نخاس وچ جے گھوڑیاں دا وٹاندرا غلاماں نال ہوندا تے دُوجی وچ غلاماں دے وٹے گھوڑے حاصل کیتے جاندے- īkk naxās vicc je ghoṛiyāṉ dā vaṭāndarā ġulāmāṉ nāl hondā te dūjī vicc ġulāmāṉ de vaṭṭe ghoṛe ḥāṣil kīte jānde
- If in one cattle fair, there was an exchange of horses for slaves, then in another there would be a barter for horses with slaves
- (by extension) exchange (place where currency conversion or trading takes place)
- replacement (of goods, also bartering)
Declension
Further reading
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “وٹاندرا”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
- Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “وٹاندرا”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
- “ਵਟਾਂਦਰਾ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025