ਹੱਡੀ

What does haddi mean in Punjabi? Haddi (ਹੱਡੀ) means bone: one of the hard, rigid pieces that together form the skeleton and give the body its shape, strength and support. Khandbahale gives ਹੱਡੀ as the Punjabi word for bone and defines a bone as a hard, calcified structure that forms the skeleton, providing support and protection.

What does haddi mean in Punjabi?

Everyday Punjabi reaches for haddi whenever the frame of the body is in question. A fall is reported as haddi tutt gayi, a bone has broken, and Rekhta records exactly that phrase, haDDii TuuTnaa, as fracture of bone. When a joint slips, the phrase is haddi utar jana, the bone has moved out of its joint, and when a healer puts a broken bone right, Rekhta gives haDDii biThaanaa, to set a fractured bone. One piece is a haddi, and bones together are haddiyan (ਹੱਡੀਆਂ).

Where does the word haddi come from?

Wiktionary's translation list gives Punjabi ਹੱਡੀ, haḍḍī, feminine, as the everyday word for bone, and records a second Punjabi word beside it, asthi (ਅਸਥੀ), the formal word that Punjabi shares with Sanskrit. In daily speech haddi is the word everyone uses, at home, in the fields and at the clinic, while asthi belongs to books and formal talk. Rekhta builds a wide family around the same base, including haddi pasli, bones and ribs together, the phrase for the whole frame of the body.

What does haddi haddi dukhna mean?

When a Punjabi says meri haddi haddi dukhdi hai, every single bone aches, they mean the deep tiredness that settles into the whole body after illness or a long day of hard work: Rekhta glosses the phrase as pain in every bone from sickness or too much labour. The same family gives haddi chamda reh gaya, only bone and skin is left, said of someone who has become extremely thin and weak, and haddi pasli tuttna, to be worn out completely by effort.