توتکۍ

Meanings

1. swallow, martin (bird)
2. girl's name
3. barn swallow, swallow (Hirundo rustica)
4. swallow
5. swallow, martin
6. A swallow.; توتکئِي totakaʿī

Pashto definitions

1. یو وړوکی تور کوچي مرغه چې سپینه سینه لري

Forms

plural

توتکۍtotakə́y

alt-plural

توتکيانيtotakəyā́ni

Meanings

1. A knot of hair worn in front, on the forehead, by virgins. This refers to a strange custom prevalent some hundred years since amongst the whole of the Afg̠ẖāns, and still observed by the G̱ẖalzīs, and other tribes of central Afg̠ẖānistān, of plaiting the front hair of young girls, from about eight years of age, until their marriage, in a large round plait, often the size of a saucer, in front of the forehead, and sometimes reaching to the tip of the nose, covering the eyes, and acting, in fact, the part of a mask. It may be raised or put aside to enable the wearer to eat. On the morning of…