I am Paul Singh

Pronunciation: ju-THEE
Function: noun
Usage: See below
1 : A shoe
2 : A beating

Usage:
1. Damn. Those jutti’s are hot! I need to get a pair fo’ sho!
2. Whoa, you need to tie your jutti man.
3. Uh oh, my old lady’s pissed. I’m gonna get a jutti if I go home right now!

It’s time to reinstate the Punjabi Word of the Day and I need some help. Give me some suggestions on words to use as my friend Gunjan is in dire need of some Punjabi vocabulary. Case in point:

Gunjan: Sukhi called me a bas theek!!!!
Gunjan: what did she call me?
Neera: “not much, im fine”
Gunjan: how do i respond?

Need I say more?

UPDATE: Gunjan’s defense!

Gunjan: i’m not that bad
Paul:
Gunjan: i said
Gunjan: oy
Gunjan: kid duh
Gunjan: and
Gunjan: may teek whom
Gunjan: come on now!!!
Gunjan: cut me some slack
Gunjan: i’m going to give you
Gunjan: theen thump-pers
Gunjan: thup-pers
Gunjan: or something like that
Paul: Haye! Rub tho durrrrrrrr!

I. am. speechless.

care instructions

Do not wash.
Do not bleach.
Do not iron.
Do not dryclean.
Do not tumble dry.

Want to see what I’m talking about? Look here: IKEA Sofas

I’m afraid to make this the punjabi word (or phrase) of the day. I think I’m already going to get in trouble after some of the Aunties read this particular post. Sorry Aunties!!

Pronunciation: PAA-gal
Function: noun, adjective
Usage: See below
1 : A crazy
2 : A psycho
3 : An idiot in general

Usage:
1. Damn. That girl is paagal. She needs to chill.
2. Whoa, what is that paagal doing? (This gets said about me pretty often)
3. Oye! Paagal! (This too is said to me quite often)

Pronunciation: sha-RAB
Function: noun, adjective
Adjective: sharabi
Usage: See below
1 : alcohol
2 : booze
3 : pretty much anything that you drink that will mess you up

Usage:
1. Oye! Where’s my sharab!
2. Damn, Gunjan can sure drink a lot of sharab!
3. Look at that sharabi! He’s puking!

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.

Pronunciation: pun-GA
Function: noun, verb
Usage: See below
1 : Risk.
2 : To stir up problems.
3 : To mess with something that probably doesn’t need to be messed with(something I do entirely too often).
4 : To start drama.

Usage:

1 : Hey baby, panga is my middle name.
2 : Why do stupid people like to start panga all the time?
3 : “….you’re the one who panga-ed with my clock!”
4 : Paul says, “Don’t start panga with me, I will destroy you.”

Thanks to Gunjan/Neera for correcting usage 1/2.
Thanks to Sukhi for that 3rd usage– I swear I didn’t make that up. She actually said that.

Hah. People will say anything to get on my blog these days.

On a side note: Neera says “Oh and for the record I dont think you do panga too often. I think it just comes to you.” Hah. I am not sure how to respond to that.

Neera = Walking/Talking Punjabi dictionary.

Gunjan/Paul = Coconuts.

Pronunciation: ku-rEE
Function: noun
Usage: it’s a noun, figure that out for yourselves.
1 : A girl

Usage:

1 : Hey, check out that kuri over there!
2 : Man oh man, that kuri is like whoa.
3 : Yo, you tryin’ to holla at my kuri?!

Paisa = Money

Pronunciation: pAY-sa
Function: noun, adjective
Usage: often attributive or however else Paul Singh wants to use it
1 : something generally accepted as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment: as a : officially coined or stamped metal currency b : MONEY OF ACCOUNT c : PAPER MONEY
2 : a form or denomination of coin or paper money

Usage:

1 : Yo, that (girl/guy) is paisa!
2 : I’m just trying to make that paisa.
3 : Hey, you got some paisa?