Source: https://jugti.com/kosh/words/siyal/ ਸ [Kosh](https://jugti.com/kosh/)/[Words](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/)/Noun Word # ਸਿਆਲ਼ Siyal Say it**si-AAL**Type**Noun** In short Siyal (ਸਿਆਲ਼) is a traditional Punjabi word for winter, the cold season of short days, fog and frost. Everyday speech more often uses sardi for the cold, but in the list of seasons siyal is the winter name, standing opposite hunala, the summer. ## How it's used 1. 1ਸਿਆਲ਼ ਵਿੱਚ ਸਵੇਰੇ ਘਣੀ ਧੁੰਦ ਪੈਂਦੀ ਹੈ।In winter, thick fog settles in the morning. _The season_ 2. 2ਸਿਆਲ਼ ਦੇ ਦਿਨਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਬਜ਼ੁਰਗ ਸ਼ਾਮ ਨੂੰ ਅੱਗ ਸੇਕਦੇ ਹਨ।In the days of winter, the elders warm themselves at the fire in the evening. _Daily life_ 3. 3ਇਸ ਵਾਰ ਸਿਆਲ਼ ਲੰਬਾ ਚੱਲਿਆ।This time winter lasted long. _Talking about the season_ Show 1 more example 1. 4ਸਿਆਲ਼ ਵਿੱਚ ਸਰਸੋਂ ਦਾ ਸਾਗ ਬਣਦਾ ਹੈ।In winter, mustard saag is made. _Food_ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਰਥ ਸਿਆਲ਼ ਸਰਦੀ ਦੀ ਰੁੱਤ ਨੂੰ ਕਿਹਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ, ਸਾਲ ਦਾ ਸਭ ਤੋਂ ਠੰਢਾ ਸਮਾਂ। ਰੋਜ਼ਾਨਾ ਬੋਲਚਾਲ ਵਿੱਚ ਲੋਕ ਸਰਦੀ ਸ਼ਬਦ ਵੱਧ ਵਰਤਦੇ ਹਨ, ਪਰ ਰੁੱਤਾਂ ਦੀ ਸੂਚੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਸਿਆਲ਼ ਨਾਂ ਆਉਂਦਾ ਹੈ, ਜਿਵੇਂ ਬਸੰਤ, ਹੁਨਾਲ਼ਾ, ਪਤਝੜ ਅਤੇ ਸਿਆਲ਼। ਸਿਆਲ਼ ਵਿੱਚ ਦਿਨ ਛੋਟੇ ਹੁੰਦੇ ਹਨ, ਸਵੇਰੇ ਧੁੰਦ ਪੈਂਦੀ ਹੈ ਅਤੇ ਲੋਕ ਸ਼ਾਲਾਂ ਲਪੇਟ ਕੇ ਅੱਗ ਸੇਕਦੇ ਹਨ। ਇਹ ਸਰਸੋਂ ਦੇ ਸਾਗ ਅਤੇ ਲੋਹੜੀ ਦੀ ਰੁੱਤ ਹੈ। What does siyal mean in Punjabi? Siyal (ਸਿਆਲ਼) is a traditional Punjabi word for winter, the cold season of short days, fog and frost. Where the everyday word sardi names the cold itself, siyal names the season as a whole stretch of the year, and in the Punjabi list of seasons it stands opposite hunala, the summer. ## What does siyal mean in Punjabi? Siyal is a masculine noun meaning winter. Wiktionary's entry for winter gives three Punjabi words side by side: sardi, a feminine noun, siyal, a masculine noun, and pala. Preply's guide to the seasons uses the same word in siyal rutt, the winter season, calling it the cold season months in the four-season system and the deep cold months in the older six-season system. So siyal is the season's formal, traditional name, the one a list of rutts reaches for. ## How is siyal different from sardi? Sardi is the word of daily life. People say sardi pai rahi hai, the cold is setting in, and sardi covers both the feeling of cold and the cold season in ordinary talk. Siyal is narrower and older in flavour: it means the winter season itself, not a cold day or a cold wind. You meet it in season lists, in poetry and in the speech of elders, and in the fixed pairing siyal and hunala, winter and summer, the two great halves of the Punjabi year. Both words are understood everywhere; siyal simply carries the calendar with it. ## What happens in a Punjabi siyal? Winter in the northern plains, the months around December to February, brings the season's own world with it. Mornings open under dhund, the thick fog that slows the roads. Frost touches the fields, the days stay short, and in the village people wrap themselves in shawls and sit close to a small fire in the evening. It is the season of sarson da saag on the stove and of Lohri fires at its heart. When a Punjabi speaker calls all of this siyal, the word holds the whole season, not just the temperature. ## Related words [ਹੁਨਾਲ਼ਾHunalaSummer, the hot season, in the traditional naming of the seasons](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/hunala/)[ਸਰਦੀsardiCold; winter](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/sardi/)[ਰੁੱਤruttseason: one of the named stretches of the year](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/rutt/)[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/) Advertisement Sources (3) 1. [Wiktionary, Seasons in Punjabi table: basant (spring), hunala (summer), patjhar (autumn) and siyal (ਸਿਆਲ਼, siāḷ, winter)](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Template:table:seasons/pa) 2. [Wiktionary, winter: Punjabi translations are sardi (feminine), siyal (ਸਿਆਲ਼, masculine, siāḷ) and pala; winter is the season of short days and the lowest temperatures, December to February in the Northern Hemisphere](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/winter) 3. [Preply, Seasons in Punjabi: siyal rutt is winter, the cold season months, and the deep cold months in the traditional six-season system, with the example sentence I wear warm clothes in siyal rutt](https://preply.com/en/blog/seasons-in-punjabi/) [Report a correction](https://jugti.com/corrections/) **Jugti is free and independent.** Reader support keeps the Kosh growing. [Support](https://jugti.com/support/) ## More words [ਚੰਨchannMoon](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/chann/)[ਕਿੱਦਾਂkiddanhow are you? what's up? 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