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Punjabi
Etymology
From Sanskrit *मौर्धक (maurdhaka). Cognate with Saraiki مونْڈھا (monḍhā).
Pronunciation
Noun
موڈھا • (moḍhā) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਮੋਢਾ)
- (anatomy) shoulder
2018, “لَہَور تیرے تے ”, in جَوانی پِھر نَہِیں آنی , performed by Waqar Ehsin, Mehak Ali:تُریْا تُریْا جانْدا، تیرے موڈھے تے بَنْدُوق وے
کِھچّ کے نَہ مارِیں، ساڈی زِنْدَڑی مَلُوک وے- turiyā turiyā jāndā, tere moḍhe te bandūq ve
khicc ke nah mārīṉ, sāḍī zindaṛī malūk ve - Wandering around with a gun on your shoulders
Don't be haste in wounding me, I'm delicate you see
- shoulder (of a garment)
Declension
Verb
موڈھا دیݨا • (moḍhā deṇā) (transitive, Gurmukhi spelling ਮੋਢਾ ਦੇਣਾ)
- to shoulder; to carry on one's shoulder
- (figuratively) to support
Further reading
- Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “موڈھا”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
- Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “موڈھا”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
- “ਮੋਢਾ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*maurdhaka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press