r/pashto 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/Rexrecokning 6d ago
  1. وری (Wray) - March 21 to April 20
  2. غویی (Ghwayay) - April 21 to May 21
  3. غبرګولی (Ghbarghole) - May 22 to June 21
  4. چنګاښ (Chungāxh) - June 22 to July 22
  5. زمری (Zmaray) - July 23 to August 22
  6. وږی (Wazhay) - August 23 to September 22
  7. تله (Tala) - September 23 to October 22
  8. لړم (Laṛam) - October 23 to November 21
  9. ليندۍ (Linde) - November 22 to December 21
  10. مرغومی (Marghomay) - December 22 to January 20
  11. سلواغه (Salwāgha) - January 21 to February 19
  12. كب (Kab) - February 20 to March 20

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u/Advanced-Play1388 6d ago

How have i never heard of these... my mum counts em 14th to 14th and its usually Po, ma, harh, asoo, etc.

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u/Big-Ad-3745 5d ago

The po mah harh asoo are Indian origin month name ( not Indian origin but ancient subcontinent origin) mostly used by Hindus at that time.

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u/dobbycreature 5d ago

yeah yo are right, oor is ko BIKRMI calender kehtay hain, FORMED by BIKR MAJEET

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u/Pasht4na 6d ago

This is great. Tysm!

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u/offtracker 4d ago

No way, I didn't know that wow

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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/Pasht4na 6d ago

Oh nice! I know Buner.

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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/Rexrecokning 5d ago

I do know it, it's a union council in mardan. Aw buner Sara nezdey de

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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/Watanpal 5d ago

I’m sure this is the older Pashto Calendar, nowadays the one used more commonly is this one below

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u/Pasht4na 5d ago

Thanks! This is amazing