butterfly meaning in Pashto
شاپرک šāparak
/ˈbʌ.tə(ɹ).flaɪ/[ˈbʌ.tə.flaɪ]
butterfly in Pashto: شاپرک (šāparak), پروانه (parwāna), پتنګ (patang). In English, butterfly means a flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
Pashto words for butterfly
- insect
- شاپرک šāparak, پروانه parwāna, پتنګ patang
English meaning of butterfly
- noun A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
- noun The imago (final form) of such an insect, consisting usually of a long body with large flat wings, as opposed to earlier instars such as caterpillar or pupa.
- noun A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
- noun The butterfly stroke.
butterfly in a sentence
- butterfly tape; butterfly bandage; butterfly strips
- One potential butterfly could be JFK having another son the year after the POD instead of a daughter.
- Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.
Synonyms of butterfly
butterfly in other languages
- butterfly in Hindi
- butterfly in Tamil
- butterfly in Marathi
- butterfly in Urdu
- butterfly in Bengali
- butterfly in Telugu
- butterfly in Malayalam
- butterfly in Kannada
- butterfly in Punjabi
- butterfly in Gujarati
- butterfly in Odia
- butterfly in Sanskrit
- butterfly in Sinhala
- butterfly in Assamese
- butterfly in Nepali
- butterfly in Tagalog
- butterfly in Arabic
- butterfly in Malay
- butterfly in Indonesian
- butterfly in Persian
- butterfly in Thai
- butterfly in Vietnamese
- butterfly in Myanmar
Questions about butterfly in Pashto
- What is the meaning of butterfly in Pashto?
- Butterfly in Pashto is شاپرک (šāparak), پروانه (parwāna), پتنګ (patang).
- butterfly په پښتو کې څه معنی لري؟
- Butterfly: شاپرک (šāparak), پروانه (parwāna), پتنګ (patang).
- What does butterfly mean in English?
- Butterfly means a flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: butterfly (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Pashto words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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