ਥੋੜ੍ਹਾ

What does thoda mean in Punjabi? Thoda (ਥੋੜ੍ਹਾ) means a little, a few or slight. It is the everyday Punjabi word for a small amount: a little water, a few people, a little time. Doubled as thoda-thoda, it means little by little.

What does thoda mean in Punjabi?

Rekhta Dictionary gives thoda as little, scanty, few, meagre and slight. The word measures smallness in three ways. It measures amount, as in thoda paani, a little water. It measures number, as in thode lok, a few people. And it measures degree, as in a slight trouble or a slight delay. The feminine form is thodi, and thoda-sa, also written thoda jeha in Punjabi speech, is a little, a very little.

How is thoda used in everyday Punjabi?

Thoda is the softener of daily requests. Thoda ruk jao asks someone to wait a little. Thodi der is a short while, the answer given when food or a guest will not take long. In the kitchen it measures gently: thoda namak is a little salt, and thoda hor asks for a little more. As a verb phrase, thoda karna means to reduce or lessen, as in asking for the sound to be turned down a little. Because it asks for only a little, thoda keeps a request polite.

What does thoda-thoda mean?

Doubled, thoda-thoda means little by little, by degrees, and thoda-thoda karke means a little at a time. It is the word for slow, steady progress: savings growing coin by coin, a language learned word by word, a field cleared row by row. Rekhta records the saying thoda-thoda hi karke bahut ho jaata hai: drop by drop, the bucket fills, or in English, little by little it becomes a lot.

What is the difference between thoda and bahut?

Thoda and bahut (ਬਹੁਤ) are opposites: thoda is a little, bahut is much, many or very. Joined together as thoda-bahut, they mean somewhat or more or less, the honest answer for anything in the middle. Bahut thoda narrows further still: very little. Almost every Punjabi answer about how much, how many or how long uses one of these two words, or the pair of them together.