Punjabi Word of the Day: Phatta
Pronunciation: fat-TAH
Function: noun
Plural: phatte
Usage: See below
1 : A board
2 : A huge slab of wood. (Thanks Neera)
3 : By extension of definition 2, a plank on a pirate ship
Usage:
1. Oye! Don’t make me beat you senseless with this phatta!
2. Chuk de phatte!
3. Mundeya, you’re going to walk the phatta in a minute.
October 3rd, 2005 at 5:15 pm
Not to be confused with Tatta or Tutti.
October 3rd, 2005 at 6:41 pm
Shouldn’t it be:
Fut-Tah
and plural
Fut-Teh
?
Just a suggestion….
October 3rd, 2005 at 7:08 pm
Damn… you might be right Gunjan… you been taking punjabi lessons or something? Although, in my defense, your wife saw me post this and seemed to approve of my initial pronunciation.
October 4th, 2005 at 10:58 am
Ah but i dont need help with pronouncing it because i already know how to
October 4th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
It would be hot if you recorded a little clip of you saying the word and put it online with the word just like they do in dictionary.com….and then from there read out every sentence just so everyone can hear you speak in your fobby accent….
October 4th, 2005 at 8:34 pm
Whoa. Good idea… I’m gonna look into that… stay tuned.
October 5th, 2005 at 10:18 am
hehe make sure you don’t for get the (Thanks Bobby) after the clip…haha