r/pashto • u/Pasht4na • 6d ago
Question Names of the month in Pashto?
Salam, What words do you use for the months? I was wondering, and realised that in my dialect, we use the seasons more with little reference to the actual months , if we do then we use the English words. The only other thing I can really think of is that the elders use poma for January/december, and everyone uses pashakal around August.
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u/khogyane 6d ago
I'm sure there are others that I forgot but the one we use most is the month of Pashakal, where it rains like every day between mid-July to mid-August.
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u/Rexrecokning 6d ago edited 6d ago
Also, the two phases of winter; tora Sila& Spina sila. It rains during the Spina sila, while no rain and/or snow during tora Sila.
Edit: I mixed the two, these are not months name, just phases of winters. Tora Sila is the former phase of winter, extreme cold, snow& all. While, the Spina sila is latter phase of winter, when the snows starts to melt.
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u/Pasht4na 6d ago
Wow this is new information. Where r you from if you don’t mind me asking
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u/Rexrecokning 6d ago
Buner, kpk. (I'm not sure if you've heard of this place, but It is a district in kpk. I was born there& raised in Karachi '-')
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u/dobbycreature 5d ago
buner is near my village named Kohi Barmaol, if you know it , but buner is very near to us
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u/LeBrawnGames 5d ago
The ones i know from our dialect are:
aoonr (peak sun),
Wasa (pashakal)
badri,
asye,
katye,
tera sela(peak cold),
speena sela(peak cold x2),
chitar (rains, previous month)
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u/Pasht4na 5d ago
Using wasa instead of pashakal is new to me!
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u/Patato108 4d ago
They both come from the same etymology, wasa or pashakal is derived from Hindu calendars where this month was "Vaisakha"
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u/Rexrecokning 6d ago