بتھیرا

Inherited from Prakrit [Term?], ultimately from Sanskrit बहुत्व (bahutva).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /bə.t̪ʰeː.ɾäː/
• Rhymes: -äː

بَتھیرا • (batherā) (feminine بتھیری, Gurmukhi spelling ਬਥੇਰਾ)

1. plenty, abundant

   Synonym: ڈھیر (ḍher)

   میْرے کوْل بَتھیْرا اے کَہَݨ واسطے۔

   mere kol batherā le kahaṇ vāsṭe

   I have plenty to say.

2. much

   Synonym: بَہُت (bót)

3. sufficient, enough

   Synonym: کافی (kāfī)

• “ਬਥੇਰਾ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “بتھیرا”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “bahutva”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 519