بتھیرا

Inherited from Prakrit [Term?], ultimately from Sanskrit बहुत्व (bahutva).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /bə.t̪ʰeː.ɾäː/
• Rhymes: -äː

بَتھیرا • (batherā) (feminine بتھیری‎, Gurmukhi spelling ਬਥੇਰਾ)

1. plenty, abundant

   Synonym: ڈھیر‎ (ḍher)

   ‏میْرے کوْل بَتھیْرا اے کَہَݨ واسطے۔‎‎

   I have plenty to say.

2. much

   Synonym: بَہُت‎ (bahut)

3. sufficient, enough

   Synonym: کافی‎ (kāfī)

• “ਬਥੇਰਾ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “بتھیرا‎”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “bahutva”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 519