حیاnounfeminine
modesty, bashfulness, shame, staying modest in dress and behaviour
Meanings
- modesty, bashfulness, shame, staying modest in dress and behaviour (Islam)
- shame, shyness, timidity, modesty
- modesty, pudency, shame
- modesty
- modesty, decency, bashfulness
- disgrace, shame; shamelessly, unashamedly, impudently
- timidity
- Modesty, shame, bashfulness
- modesty, shame, shyness, timidity, bashfulness
Pashto definitions
- شرم، پرده، وايه، ادره، ستر، غېرت
- شرم، پرده، وايه، ادره
Examples
حيا کول
to be embarrassed
Forms
- plural
- حیاويḥayāwī
Phrases
- حیا کولḥayā kawul
To show modesty or shame, to act modestly
- حیا دارḥayā-dār
Modest, bashful
Translations (3)
- German
- Schamhaftigkeit f., Keuschheit f., Scham f. · Schamhaftigkeit (die) · Keuschheit (die) · Scham (die) · Züchtigkeit
- French
- pudeur (f.), pudicité (f.) · honte (f.); vergogne (f.) · pudeur, pudicité · honte; vergogne · pudeur · pudicité
- Russian
- стыд · застенчивость, робость, стыдливость · کول ~ стыдиться.
Etymology: Arabic
حياname
Haya
Meanings
- Haya