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# ਖੇਤੀ ਤੇ ਪਿੰਡ ਦੇ ਸ਼ਬਦ

Kheti te Pind de Shabd

Say it**KHE-ti te pind de shabd**Type**Phrase**

In short

Punjabi farming words grow out of the wheat and paddy cycle: kanak and jhona in the fields, the hal and kassi in the hands, the mandi where the crop is sold, and the chaupal and sath where the village talks. This page lists the farming and village words of the Jugti Kosh, each linked to its full page.

## How it's used

1. 1ਕਣਕ ਪੱਕ ਗਈ ਹੈ੤The wheat has ripened. _Harvest time_
2. 2ਉਹ ਖੇਤ ਵਿੱਚ ਕੰਮ ਕਰਦਾ ਹੈ੤He works in the field. _Village life_
3. 3ਫ਼ਸਲ ਮੰਡੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਵਿਕ ਗਈ੤The crop was sold at the mandi. _After harvest_

ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਰਥ

ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਬੋਲੀ ਦੀ ਸਭ ਤੋਂ ਪੁਰਾਣੀ ਸ਼ਬਦਾਵਲੀ ਖੇਤੀ ਦੀ ਹੈ੤ ਕਣਕ, ਝੋਨਾ, ਸਰਸੋਂ ਅਤੇ ਗੰਨਾ ਫ਼ਸਲਾਂ ਹਨ, ਹਲ, ਕੱਸੀ ਅਤੇ ਸੁਹਾਗਾ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੇ ਸੰਦ ਹਨ੤ ਖੇਤ, ਮੰਡੀ, ਚੌਪਾਲ ਅਤੇ ਸੱਥ ਪਿੰਡ ਦੀ ਜ਼ਿੰਦਗੀ ਦੇ ਕੇਂਦਰ ਹਨ੤ ਹਰ ਸ਼ਬਦ ਦਾ ਪੂਰਾ ਵੇਰਵਾ ਕੋਸ਼ ਵਿੱਚ ਹੈ੤

Punjab means the land of five rivers, and its oldest vocabulary is the vocabulary of farming. These are the words of the crop cycle and the village that lives by it: seeds and harvests, ploughs and levellers, land records and grain markets, and the shared spaces, the courtyard, the common and the meeting platform, where village life happens. Every word links to its full Kosh page, with example sentences and the story behind the word.

## The crops

**<a href="/kosh/words/kanak/">ਕਣਕ (kanak)</a>** \- wheat, Punjab's staple grain

**<a href="/kosh/words/jhona/">ਝੋਨਾ (jhona)</a>** \- paddy, the monsoon rice crop

**<a href="/kosh/words/sarson/">ਸਰਸੋਂ (sarson)</a>** \- mustard, the winter crop of yellow flowers

**<a href="/kosh/words/ganna/">ਗੰਨਾ (ganna)</a>** \- sugarcane, the source of gur

**<a href="/kosh/words/narma/">ਨਰਮਾ (narma)</a>** \- cotton, the white fibre crop

**<a href="/kosh/words/fasal/">ਫ਼ਸਲ (fasal)</a>** \- the crop, the season's harvest

**<a href="/kosh/words/beej/">ਬੀਜ (beej)</a>** \- seed, the beginning of the crop

**<a href="/kosh/words/pathhe/">ਪੱਠੇ (pathhe)</a>** \- green fodder, the fresh crops cut daily for cattle

**<a href="/kosh/words/tudi/">ਤੂੜੀ (tudi)</a>** \- chopped wheat straw, the stored dry fodder

## Tools of the field

**<a href="/kosh/words/hal/">ਹਲ (hal)</a>** \- the plough, the farmer's tilling implement

**<a href="/kosh/words/kassi/">ਕੱਸੀ (kassi)</a>** \- the hoe, a short-handled digging tool

**<a href="/kosh/words/gandasa/">ਗੰਡਾਸਾ (gandasa)</a>** \- a long-handled farming implement with a wide blade

**<a href="/kosh/words/suhaga/">ਸੁਹਾਗਾ (suhaga)</a>** \- the heavy plank leveller dragged over ploughed fields

## Land, water and the market

**<a href="/kosh/words/khet/">ਖੇਤ (khet)</a>** \- a field, farmland

**<a href="/kosh/words/kheti/">ਖੇਤੀ (kheti)</a>** \- farming, agriculture

**<a href="/kosh/words/mitti/">ਮਿੱਟੀ (mitti)</a>** \- soil, earth

**<a href="/kosh/words/zameen/">ਜ਼ਮੀਨ (zameen)</a>** \- land

**<a href="/kosh/words/khaad/">ਖਾਦ (khaad)</a>** \- fertiliser, manure

**<a href="/kosh/words/sinjai/">ਸਿੰਜਾਈ (sinjai)</a>** \- irrigation, the watering of fields

**<a href="/kosh/words/parali/">ਪਰਾਲੀ (parali)</a>** \- paddy straw left in the fields after harvest

**<a href="/kosh/words/khuh/">ਖੂਹ (khuh)</a>** \- the well, the village's water source

**<a href="/kosh/words/jamabandi/">ਜਮਾਬੰਦੀ (jamabandi)</a>** \- the land record, the record of rights

**<a href="/kosh/words/mandi/">ਮੰਡੀ (mandi)</a>** \- the grain market where farmers sell their produce

## Village life

**<a href="/kosh/words/pind/">ਪਿੰਡ (pind)</a>** \- village

**<a href="/kosh/words/chaupal/">ਚੌਪਾਲ (chaupal)</a>** \- the village hall, the community meeting place

**<a href="/kosh/words/sath/">ਸੱਥ (sath)</a>** \- the village common, the elders' gathering platform

**<a href="/kosh/words/vehra/">ਵੇਹੜਾ (vehra)</a>** \- the courtyard, the open heart of the house

**<a href="/kosh/words/dera/">ਡੇਰਾ (dera)</a>** \- a farmstead, a dwelling out on one's land

**<a href="/kosh/words/hali/">ਹਾਲੀ (hali)</a>** \- the ploughman, the driver of the plough

**<a href="/kosh/words/zamindar/">ਜ਼ਿਮੀਂਦਾਰ (zamindar)</a>** \- a landowner, a holder of farmland

**<a href="/kosh/words/jatt/">ਜੱਟ (jatt)</a>** \- the Punjabi farmer; a member of the Jat community

**<a href="/kosh/words/pendu/">ਪੇਂਡੂ (pendu)</a>** \- a villager, rural; sometimes used teasingly

## How to use these words

Learn these words in the order of the farming year. Sowing starts with **ਬੀਜ (beej)**, the seed, and work in the **ਖੇਤ (khet)**, the field; the crop, **ਫ਼ਸਲ (fasal)**, is cut at harvest and carried to the **ਮੰਡੀ (mandi)** to be sold. A learner who can follow that one journey, sowing, watering, harvest, market, can follow most village talk.

Many of these words travel far beyond the farm. **ਮਿੱਟੀ (mitti)**, soil, is also what a person is made of and returns to, and **ਪਿੰਡ (pind)** is the word every diaspora family uses for the home village, however long ago they left. The full Kosh pages carry those second meanings too.

## What is the Punjabi word for farming?

Farming in Punjabi is ਖੇਤੀ (kheti), and a field is ਖੇਤ (khet). A farmer is most often called a ਜੱਟ (jatt) or a ਕਿਸਾਨ (kisaan) in modern usage.

## What does pind mean in Punjabi?

ਪਿੰਡ (pind) means village. For diaspora Punjabis it usually means the ancestral village in Punjab, the place the family comes from.

## What is a mandi in Punjab?

A ਮੰਡੀ (mandi) is the grain market where farmers bring their harvest to sell. Punjab's mandis are among the largest grain markets in India, and the word is also used for the market town itself.

## Related words

[ਕਣਕkanakWheat; Punjab's staple grain](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/kanak/)[ਝੋਨਾjhonaPaddy; the monsoon rice crop](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/jhona/)[ਖੇਤੀkhetiFarming; agriculture](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/kheti/)[ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸਿੱਖੋPunjabi SikhoLearn Punjabi: the guided path for diaspora learners, from the Gurmukhi alphabet to real words and family talk](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/learn-punjabi/)[ਖਾਣ-ਪੀਣ ਦੇ ਸ਼ਬਦKhaan-Peen de ShabdPunjabi food words: breads, dishes, dairy, sweets and drinks in Gurmukhi, with meanings](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/punjabi-food-words/)[ਕਿੱਤਿਆਂ ਦੇ ਸ਼ਬਦKittiyaan de ShabdPunjabi occupation words: tailor, potter, blacksmith, cobbler, goldsmith, carpenter, patwari and halwai](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/punjabi-occupations-words/)[ਮੌਸਮ ਦੇ ਸ਼ਬਦMausam de ShabdPunjabi weather words: rain, monsoon, wind, fog, heat and cold in Gurmukhi, with meanings](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/punjabi-weather-words/)[ਪੱਠੇpathhegreen fodder: the fresh leafy crops cut daily and fed to cattle and buffaloes](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/pathhe/)[ਤੂੜੀtudi, also written toorichopped wheat straw, the dry fodder stored after the harvest and fed to cattle through the year](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/tudi/)

Sources (2)
1. [Punjabi language and alphabets, Omniglot](https://www.omniglot.com/writing/punjabi.htm)
2. [Learn Punjabi: the guided path, Jugti Kosh](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/learn-punjabi/)
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On this page[In short](#in-short)[How it's used](#how-used)[ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਰਥ](#pa-meaning)[The crops](#s-k1)[Tools of the field](#s-k9)[Land, water and the market](#s-k14)[Village life](#s-k25)[How to use these words](#s-k35)[What is the Punjabi word for farming?](#s-k40)[What does pind mean in Punjabi?](#s-k42)[What is a mandi in Punjab?](#s-k44)

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