‘Just like that' usually used twice ‘amtha amtha'. This word is sometimes used when people get a crew cut, because the haircut looks like someone placed a tapedi on the head and cut of the visible hair. It is not a pan or a wok, but deep and cylindrical. The round vessel most Indian kitchens have. Try calling a puppy ‘galudio' and you'll know there is so much emotion attached to it. 'Itna babuchak jaisa hai re yeh.'Ī young child. It is used when someone is so silly that it's funny. It may actually make the person laugh and not feel insulted. ‘Such a big man and still can't clean.' A euphemistic way of saying it would be: 'Dhaanda jevo thay gayo pan cleaning nahi aati'. 'He sits in front of the television all day ‘podada ni jem'.Īll grown up, but silly. Something to the effect of ‘a gunny sack'. But when someone says 'I know a man who has travelled to Mars,' my reply is 'kapad taru'. It is a loud and clear disapproval of what someone else has just said. Pretty much means ‘f*^k off' or ‘chal chal'. ‘Harakh' is happy and ‘padudi/o' is padudi/o It means someone to the effect of over enthusiastic. There is no single English word for this. 'That ghoghi just did not understand that she was being hit on.' Nothing describes naïve better than the word ‘ghoghi'. It could be used in either situations-a street fight or an angry email. When someone is creating too much chaos, I prefer to say 'Itna ghamagham kyun kar raha hai woh'. This is the verb form of the word ‘chaos'. But names that end with ‘al' are unisex, such as Sheetal, Deepal, Hetal. Because anything ending in ‘y' or ‘I' is of the female gender, such as chokri. A baby girl is ‘baby' but a baby boy is ‘babo'. This is a Gujarati improvisation of the word ‘baby'. 'When we refused to buy him that ice cream, he did a lot of dhampachada in the mall.' Showing disapproval in an evident, aggressive fashion. Here is the list of some famous gujarati words with meaning

But in that moment nothing expresses the feeling but a word from the Gujarati language.

I do sometimes use them around people who don't speak the language and follow it up with the meaning. I tend to use them in English and Hindi sentences too.

For me a few expressions are just not good enough in any other language but Gujarati.

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