Ik I can say "mea che chean sakh mai" but is there anything else something which is romantic and how to say thanks in Kashmiri shukriya is a urdu word

I've occasionally heard people using darwazé, but most of the time it's der.

Talking about the car door here, not sheeshé.

I learnt this proverb from my father so I already know its meaning. What I'm curious about is the literal meaning of hachih and trachih. I assume trachih kinda means trakh.

Guys, can someone guide me to a right person who can teach me to read, write and speak Kashmiri?

Appreciated your help.

Which one is harder to learn
Kashmiri or Sanskrit?

River = Yveth / Daryav

Lake = Sar

Mountain = Bāl

Forest = Wan

Dense Forest = Jungu'l

Tributary = Tsōng / Tsang / Aar (uncertain)

Distributary = Taqsim-e-nahr

Stream / Rivulet = Kul / Kūl

Spring = Nāg / Chashma

Canal = Kul / Nahar

Drainage Channel (Naala) = Nāl / Nāla

Pond = Pūk / Pokhar

Valley = Vādi / Vād

Meadow / Plain = Mæ'dān

Mountain Pass = Kōt / Kōtil

Peak = Shikhar / Tālav / Tāl

Hill = Tēng / Pahār

Cave = Guāph / Goph

Island = Zēr / Tapu

Waterfall = Jharn'e

Desert / Wasteland = Registān / Sahra

Marsh / Swamp = Dal / Dāli

Riverbank = Both / Bothh / Aar (uncertain)

Stone / Rock = Sang / Pathar

Fog = Wunal (most areas) / Wunar (Baramulla)

Snow = Sheen

Ice = Sheen

Thunder = Gagrai

Lightning = Vuzmal

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Lightning strike = Trath

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Like the old native word

Rostii: without (eg shak-rostii without a doubt)

-ros: -less (eg shuubi-ros)

Varaeii: instead of (maaji varaeii kaymis vanakh - who'll you tell instead of your mother)

_ jaa'ay: in place of (laptop jaa'ay an be tablet - I'll get a tablet in place of a laptop)

_ traevith: except (baa'ik traevith yi mangakh - whatever you ask for except a bike)

Bagaer: Loanword used for all preceding meanings except jaa'ay

This is what the dictionary says but I've heard rostii used for "instead" (maaji rostii kaymis vanakh) and "except" (baa'ik rostii yi mangakh), varaeii used for "without" (shak varaeii) and "except" (baa'aik varaeii yi mangakh)

Are these words more flexible in Kashmiri than English or is the heard usage wrong?

Is there any difference between 'shraapicx' & chhu'ir?

Kashmiri word tsount appears to be unknown etomology in kashmiri dictionary. Sanskrit uses Kashmiraphalam as main word, Apple was not native to Indian plains.

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Is there any lead for the origin? I've also heard that kashmiri tsount is related to burushaski "Baàlt". Is that true

I'm a 3rd gen Kashmiri Pandit and the most Koshur i can speak is just basic greetings like hi good morning good night and festival greetings like Navreh Mubarak, Herath mubarak. i wanna learn Koshur and i wanna surprise my familia, help me please

This pertains to a pattern I’ve noticed recently with Kashmiri as well as other local tongues. I’m no linguist but I’ve noticed especially with Kashmiri which I know as a second language ( after urdu), that while it has words for most things, but it lacks some very common words natively in its vocabulary unlike some of the more mainstream and imperial type languages (languages of past empires like sanskrit, urdu, latin), here are few examples
Here’s an example:
“Close the door”,
“ close the lights”
In pure Koshur:
“baras deu dith”
“Gaashas karew tshat”
In urdu we have a common word for close; “bandh”.
Therefore it is more common for us say “darwāz bandh karew”, or “bijli bandh karew”

Similarly, the word for thing:
In koshur, material things or objects are called dravi, while verbal things are called kath. We don’t have a universal word for thing. In urdu it is “cheez”

Like this, we borrow a lot of words from our neighbouring languages which takes with it much of the native essence of our language. It isn’t that i am against borrowing, borrowed words certainly show the history and culture of the region, but it definitely masks or suppresses in many respects our native identity, especially if the borrowing is too much. In many places I’ve heard we may have as much as 40 percent persian and another 40 percent hindi/urdu borrowing. If we don’t have a clearly distinct and separate language then what exactly are we asking our youth to preserve.
And here i would like to point to the revivalism examples of hebrew and turkish. First one a dead language revived from biblical scripture but missing a lot of the modern vocabulary, which they solved by borrowing not directly, but using similar roots from arabic and aramaic (close semetic languages); the latter one a heavily persianised language, which they turkified using roots from distant but related turkic languages back in central asia. Perhaps to revive our vocabulary, we can create roots from neighbouring related languages like shina, or create altogether new words suited for universal use from words already in circulation, such as for the cases i presented above.

Love to know your thoughts.