Ever thougt to flex it in front of friends and family that you know relevant terms and jargons of basant?
Here is a non-exhaustive GLOSSARY OF SOME POPULAR KITE FLYING TERMS:
| Word/Phrase | Meaning |
| dor | Thread |
| gudda | Kite (more square in shape along its diagonally opposite corners) |
| kanni | Offset (usually of dorr to remove imbalance) |
| lamba | Elongated (usually in form of pech/Paich) |
| parri | Kite usually with poochal (tassles) |
| tawa | 1 uniform standard size to guague a kite |
| basant | Festive kite flying event |
| chamba | A bamboo stick usually with thorny bushes appended on the top to catch a kite due to its intricate composition |
| chamero | A kite usually a nikhlao cut (a kite with smaller triangular paan with match like embedded sticks which gives it higher torque while spinning fast) |
| charkhi | A spool of thread used to fly a kite |
| cheera | A cut/bruise on hand |
| dang | Bamboo stick of Chaamba |
| dhol | A tukkal kites middle part |
| ghumeri/kumeri | A spinning act to cause a kite achieve a rotational angular momentum |
| hawa | Wind |
| kat | Cutting a kite |
| kata | An exclamation of having cut a kite |
| kup | A tukkal with deeper pendi (bottom part) |
| lut | An act of winning a kite as a bounty after it is cut |
| ochi | Elongated/Sky high |
| paa | An exersion to ask to commit a kite competition fight e.g. pecha/paicha paa |
| patang | A tukkhal in specific, in generic a kite |
| pecha | An event of kite combat |
| adda/aadh pona | 3/4 of tawa |
| sohna | Beautiful |
| teera | A purely single colored tukkal |
| Baharan | Spring |
| ander | inside |
| ant | flabbergasting |
| babay | Big gudday above 4 Tawa |
| badal | Cloud |
| bajay | Trumpets |
| blori | Friend |
| bulla | A state when the kite goes chattar because the wind is upward |
| charakhri | Spool distorted form of charkhi |
| charikka | An act of pulling the string with one hand sideways and releasing the tension while strictly holding the thread with one hand at the back |
| chattar | A kite which virtually goes windless |
| chepi | adhesive tape |
| dhell | An act of releasing thread to prolong the kite flight |
| dmi | An act of releasing thread in small tranches |
| gich/gith | An infinity sign like collection of thread to save it for use |
| guchi | A shorter gich |
| goat | A length measure of 200 m |
| guddi | A kite usually not gudda |
| haath/khichi/phenti | An act of pulling the string in fast attempt |
| kaghaz | A paper |
| kainchi | A Y connection of paicha |
| kanti | A stone at end of a thread usually used to get a cut kite in access |
| klutch | A metal wire often used in bike breaks, that is cut into smaller fragments and interwound to attach with tandi so a chamero can have a collection of cut kite |
| kunni | An act of dispatching kite upward as an auxilary attempt to fly a kite |
| lomar | A big kite which is a projection of a pari |
| machar | A small kite |
| loteray | People who catch the kite often with a chaamba or a kaanti |
| Talawain | A triangular connection of thread with the kite that helps fly it |
| minar | A dor brand |
| Mondayan | A shoulder badge kite |
| nakka/nakkeyon | A triangule tip of a tukkal or an act of catching a paich often closest to the talawain |
| neeri | A sandstorm |
| para | A masculine pari |
| padh | A shape of kite |
| pata/pati | A torn kite |
| Air blade | String brand |
| piece | A measure of string |
| pinna | A spherical wounding of string in a ball like shape often in peedhiyaan (a set of uniformly parallel winding) |
| pochal | A tassle |
| sarson | Sunflower oil used in case of drizzle to protect guddi kaaghaz |
| satrangi | Seven colored or multi-color |
| shaper | A machar form of kite |
| shurli | A firework stick |
| sigrat | Ciggrete often used to make soorakh (holes) so the air goes through the guddi kaghaz to make it light and give stability |
| Panday | Thread brand e.g. Paanch panday |
| taa | A piece of guudi kaghaz |
| tan | Maintaining tensile strength of the string |
| tandi | A non combatitive cobble shoe string without manjha |
| telay | Bamboo stick that keep the composition of the kite in tact |
| thalon | Approach from bottom position |
| tukkal | A kite which has three parts, a nakka, a dhol and a pendi |
| udaeya/uraeyay | Fly kite |
| utton | Approach from top |
| i bo kata or kat kat kata | I have cut |
| Shastru | A tukkal as depicted in picture |
| dheel | furthering |
| Shurla | A kite with extensive paan so good for haath pherna |
| guddi kaghaz | kite paper |
| Padh | Shurla like kite |
| chepi | adhesive tape |
| sirkata | A kite without head |
| charkhi or charakhri | spool of kite thread calculated in goats |
| Do Akhal | Two eyed kite |
| dummy lgana | action of slowly releasing the flying string during a match |
| Mohndeyaan wala | Prefect like shoulder patch kite design |
| utton di rakh k or thalon di rakh k | certain maneuvers when you combat from beneath or above in the combat |
| chrika maaran | trying to cause sudden pulses in order to get a knot released or cause a jerk during a paich |
| kunni khana | the revolution of a kite |
| kunni dena | the act of giving help in order to release it well into the air in first attempt |
| kunni bandhna | the rectification of a revolving kite to retain its balance |
| bulley ki hawa | wind blowing straight above the head |
| kumeri khilana | making the kite revolve |
| cheera | a hand cut |
| chattar hona | the disturbance which draws your kite out of air and puts the rival in a much better position |
| pantees number ki hawa | a fast wind blowing |
| sola number ki hawa | an even faster blowing of the wind |
| guchi or gitth | an infinity symbol collection of dorr |
| aa blori kantiyan main nawi dor lagawi ye | let’s do a localized contest (while stringing a stone at the end) as I have got a new string |
| tann k rakhna | to make sure that there is no latency in kite reaction when a dheel is employed |
| ander di kumeri | inside motion clockwise from left and anti-clockwise from the right |
| qenchi | the cross via of scissors |
| nakka | tip of the triangular top of a tukkal |
| telay da chup kaddo | bend the bamboo stick so that the kite stays stern |
Do you know more, do comment. Have a confusion about any terms, ask away!
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