u/soloistmango

What is watermelon in your dialect?

I had a conversation with a few of my Punjabi speaking friends who live abroad (they're all from Chardha Punjab, I'm from Lehnda Punjab), and almost all of them called it just tarbooj, although one of them called it as mateera too.

I said that I call it as dhvana, and they'd never heard of that before, though one of them had a friend who uses "hadvana" which is similar.

Is using dhvana instead of hadvana moreso a Lehnda Punjab thing? Or are there people in chardha punjab who use dhvana too? I'm curious

(Side note, another thing I noticed was that in terms of counting, for my region 11 is pronounced as yaaran instead of gyaraan, and 3 as tre (although tin is also used). It was my first time comparing dialects with people so it was really interesting, lol.)

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u/soloistmango — 3 days ago