Help Identify Urdu Word

[James]

Hello everyone,

I've picked up an Urdu reader and am having some difficulty with a word I don't recognise and was hoping perhaps someone here could help. You can see the text here, and I placed a box around the word I cannot identify. What I read is as follows:

jangal hi jangal the aur phir pahaaRiyaa.n hi pahaaRiyaa.n | saatve.n jangal ke [unknown word] aur saatvee.n pahaaRii parii ek machheraa rehtaa thaa |

Thanks in advance for your help,

James

[omlick]

Hello everyone,

I've picked up an Urdu reader and am having some difficulty with a word I don't recognise and was hoping perhaps someone here could help. You can see the text here, and I placed a box around the word I cannot identify. What I read is as follows:

jangal hi jangal the aur phir pahaaRiyaa.n hi pahaaRiyaa.n | saatve.n jangal ke [unknown word] aur saatvee.n pahaaRii parii ek machheraa rehtaa thaa |

Thanks in advance for your help,

James

I think it is piiche पीछे as in behind.  پیچھے

[James]

Thanks for that Omlick, that makes sense. The reason I was confused was because there seems to be a misplaced dot at the beginning of the word, which had me thinking it started with 'be' and not 'pe'. (I haven't really read any Urdu online, yet, so it's interesting to see what do chashmi he looks like...I would've been confused otherwise!)

[omlick]

Thanks for that Omlick, that makes sense. The reason I was confused was because there seems to be a misplaced dot at the beginning of the word, which had me thinking it started with 'be' and not 'pe'. (I haven't really read any Urdu online, yet, so it's interesting to see what do chashmi he looks like...I would've been confused otherwise!)

I wasn't sure what that dot was either, it seems to be a random mark, not quite s dot.

What reader are you using?

Thanks

[James]

Many moons ago, Daniel recommended this book to me when I wanted to learn Urdu. I finally picked it up a few months ago and started using it and it's been pretty good. The scanned page I linked to in my first post shows the page on the right, and the left-hand page has difficult words glossed with transliteration and meanings. It goes from some simple stories from the panchatantra and works its way up to more difficult passages, selections from Umrao Jaan Ada, an essay on Premchand, etc. I haven't had any real difficulties reading a word until now, thanks in no small part to the glossary, of course, and this instance seems a misprint/mistake. It's been much smoother going than I thought it would be, which has been a great motivation to continue despite how difficult reading Urdu is. I'm now on page 77.

Thanks again for your help, Omlick.

[omlick]

Many moons ago, Daniel recommended this book to me when I wanted to learn Urdu. I finally picked it up a few months ago and started using it and it's been pretty good. The scanned page I linked to in my first post shows the page on the right, and the left-hand page has difficult words glossed with transliteration and meanings. It goes from some simple stories from the panchatantra and works its way up to more difficult passages, selections from Umrao Jaan Ada, an essay on Premchand, etc. I haven't had any real difficulties reading a word until now, thanks in no small part to the glossary, of course, and this instance seems a misprint/mistake. It's been much smoother going than I thought it would be, which has been a great motivation to continue despite how difficult reading Urdu is. I'm now on page 77.

Thanks again for your help, Omlick.

I have that book somewhere I think, so if you have any other questions you can just refer me to the page.  I was too lazy to keep reading it though, but I have enjoyed what I had read.