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Gujarati Vocabulary List

Gujarati English

uneasiness

accident

intelligence

/ experiment

flat, terraced roof of a house

hesitate

/ fantastic /strange

brightness

adjacent / next to each other

sharp

perfume

to bump

pickle

exchange

jealousy

wonderful

right

unfinished

pineapple

cereals

orphan

suitable / favourable

experience

many / numerous

criminal

disabled / lame

shelf

acting


congratulations

/ / actor / actress

to be of the opinion

pride

to study

application form

mirror

meaning

/ coming and going of people, traffic

/ noise

to go often

effect

account; report

number / issue of a magazine

personal

thumb

English (=language / person)

fig

/ finish (noun) / end

heart; distance

dark

shape

attraction

sky

/ / / end (adv), in the end

fire

arrival

( ) forecast (as in weather)

persuasive force

/ far

thin / light

horizontal

all around

looking forward to

to set (sunset)


ginger

support

modern

joy, delight

automatically

climate

thank you

tamarind

to give an invitation

nanny

a religious ritual

/ through

marble

to have a rest

health

income, earnings

welcome

to know

such / so

/ about / roughly / approximately

to wish

blessing, benediction

a hermitage / a place of shelter

consolation

laziness

eye

forecourt of a home

finger

a push; a jerk

blind (adj.)

tears

remedy, cure; treatment

, wish

injury

history

prize, reward


worm / caterpillar (as in fruit or vegetable)

idea / intention / aim / purpose

to iron

hospital

brick

steamed rice cake

/ / God

egg

/ to boil

/ to pull (a plant)

/ to plant

/ to open

higher

pronunciation

/ to bounce

to borrow

to grow

wakefulness / keep awake

picnic, feast

/ brightness

kite festival

passenger

accommodation as a base

excellent

to encourage

festival

enthusiasm, zeal

generous, munificent; frank; noble

sad

industry

cough

to lend

a good deed for someone

; to take off (plane); to lift

useful


/ upstairs / the floor above

in addition

fast (as in staying hungry)

solution / cure

applicant / candidate

to add

excitement

to turn inside out

joy

mouse

age

/ to celebrate / celebration

/ to get up

/ to fly

/ to come down

wool

to depart

to overflow

vomit

to stand

against

/ to sleep

to carry

high / tall

camel

deep

upside down

season

alone

so / therefore

/ leftover food in the plate

/ / / is that so / really

luxury

to melt

/ suddenly


, bed cover / bed linen

tools

communal seating area usually found outside a house or around a tree

/ to wear / cover

/ / room / separate room / compartment

/ pillow

to know (people)

to brush e.g. (hair)

to cross

level

nagging

plastic

to be crushed / run over

rubbish

salad

office

// stuffed savoury pastry

bowl

slice / a piece

emergency

hard

pulses

crisp

bitter

sound of thunder / lightning

bracelet

/ frying pan

curried yoghurt

to queue

( , tale (e.g. folk-tale, novel)

brown

size

appreciate

, ugly


ever

, cup

/ clothes / clothing

forehead

to have / to own

Kabadi (an Indian game)

/ cupboard / chest of drawers

pigeon

to agree

waist

lotus

amazement

to earn

to economise / being thrifty

to bite

saw (tool)

officer

hail stones

, pulses / spices

sad

spider

imagination

poet

exercise

( ) to test (exams)

to say / to tell

/ lock / switch

urn / jug

art (gallery)

invitation card

miser

/ to get bored / boring

sweetmeat shop

cucumber

, , , uncle


aunt

paper(s) (=paper; documents)

glass (material)

crisps

- half cooked

cashew nuts

to remove

puncture

scissors

ear

to cut

work / job

law, rule, act passed by a legislature

always

career

factory

skilled worker

office

care

black

thorn

wrist

coast

castle

teenager

price

teapot

/ family

/ Master / Miss

total

ice cream

well / clever

earing

potter

/ unmarried


dog / puppy

to jump

nature

well

circle

blessing

path

drug

centre

mango

saffron

orange colour

to educate / education

banana

elbow

to carve

coriander

paper bag / sack

cabbage

delicate

/ border

dry

coal

effort

order

stadium

/ / anger /angry

cashier

date as in food

lorry

rock

danger / dangerous

know

reporter

shoulder


shirt

to spend

rough surface

to fall (as in leaves falling off a branch)

a bad experience

to buy

true, correct

/ completed, finished; consumed, exhausted

disturbance

to move

to shake off

/ to scratch / itch

/ bed (single / double)

sour / sharp

ditch

fertiliser

assurance

account

/ home spun cloth /cotton

/ food stuffs / food (= eating)

private school

puddle

salty

empty

to eat

special offer

sugar

to pound

pocket

hotchpotch

tightly packed

to tease

/ to scold / to reprimand

valley


milk pudding

pimple

to bloom

nail

peg

/ chair / armchair

open (adj.)

, in a good / bad mood

corner

a lot many / much

beauty / secret

to dig into body e.g. a pin prick

farmer

to play / to do sport

player

/ farm / orchard

to pull

box (e.g. chocolates)

loss

wrong

to dig

to open

to be missing

lap

/ sound of thunder

/ maths

uniform

speed / destiny

to feel scared

sad

to like (to)

went

sieve

confusion / complication

hot

singing and dancing


poor (= not rich)

lions cry / roar

lane

counter

neck / throat

/ sweet

dirty

smell

serious

carrot

car

bullock - cart

/ mattress / soft seat, cushion

village

- cow - bull

/ carpet

/ , to sing / song

to strain

knot

mad / silly

traffic

dense / overcrowded

/ to pass by / to pass away

quality

crime

cave

to lose

/ rose / pink

an Indian sweet

criminal / thug

sticking gum / glue

to knit

/ to complicate / complicated

knee

to put, place (e.g. a vase)


/ to find / to look for

round (=shape); raw ungranulated sugar

tablet / pill

bulb; sphere

pride (good type)

wheat

/ incident, occurrence

reduce

watch, clock

a pot

house

/ old / elderly

jewellery

customer

to rub

to drag

large bell

grindstone

/ wound; to throw

thick / dark

grass

ghee

a rattle; sweet stuffed pastry

/ horse / horse riding

sparrow

dizziness / round

chutney

/ / hot and spicy / tasty / delicious

bite (wasp bite)

to climb

shorts

builder / mason

under skirt for a sari

agile

/ knife


spoon

fat

movie

discussion

currency

/ to walk / to drive / to make one walk / to do with it (as in will tolerate)

spectacles

face

to shine

chappals / sandals without back strap

to taste (e.g. good / bad)

/ skin / sun burn

landing

continue / hold on (e.g. telephone)

/ to chew / chewing gum

key (ring)

to love

dot on the forehead / moon

/ silver / silver coloured

the moon

full to the brim

picture (= painting)

worry

sticky

thing

scream, shriek, loud cry

to direct / to point

to pay (for)

silent

/ / cooker / oven / coal stove

to suck (e.g. a mango)

to caution / to warn

infection

, salty food / savoury snacks


square (= in town)

/ / guard / care taker

of course

rice

tidy / neat / clean

a tuft of hair on the top of the scalp / a plait

to put on / to apply (e.g. cream)

/ book

leaflet

to steal

/ to stick to something

to escape

ceiling

umbrella

photograph

- fork and knife

chest

boarding school

secret

roof

to print

/ newspaper

skin (e.g. banana skin)

to spray

shade

buttermilk

sneeze

to become free

separate

secretly done

/ to mash / mashed potato

/ to cancel (writing) / to rub off / rubber / eraser

to cheat

last (adj.)

/ boy / girl


plant

to leave (place)

to peel

/ world

place

person

to notify

birth

Krishna birth

right (on the)

to dine / eat dinner / meal

ground

/ necessary

/ quick / fast

an Indian sweet

/ answer

vehicle / ship

wild

insect

to wake up

/ toilet

fat

to know (facts)

race

/ pilgrimage / tour

magic

/ ( , ) detective film

to make public

advert

to maintain

net

district

to win

tongue

to live (= be alive)

gambling


different

/ young

/ Jowar / millet

lies

group

old

any how

prison

same size / age

danger

to weigh

/ connection (trains)

boot

strength

/ quarrel / fight

/ speed / express train

to flash as in lightning

Indian shirt

stream

light rain / drizzle

jeweller

dew

/ tree

diarrhoea

broom

pale (colour)

tiny

bunch (of keys)

bunch (of grapes)

hut

poison

to drip

/ post, post office / postman / postwoman

tomato

bald head


to avoid

tank

criticism

drop

to hang

towel

short (e.g. hair)

hill

support

/ habit

top / summit

basket

cap

crowd

scolding

to cool down

stone in a fruit, e.g. in a prune

cool (temperature)

to pour in (liquid, sugar and such grains)

well (as in feeling well)

, small; short (in height)

jump

residence, address (on letter); stability

all around

trip ( as in falling)

container

tin opener

to be frightened

bite

stain

left (on the left side)

wise

branch

onion

sink, drown


neck

bucket

heap

to drag

method

to cover

delay

doll

fried sweet / savoury pancake

a savoury dish

vet

drum

dosa (pancakes made from rice flour)

to pour (as a waste / by accident)

pretence

/ opportunity

trouble

cinnamon

sunny

/ watermelon

stress

to warm up

to check

saucepan

drums (= percussion)

health, mood; temperament

swimming pool

to go towards

to swim

thirst(y)

to fry

pond

at the bottom

tight

shortage


fit / healthy

tent

strength

fresh

to stretch

/ temperature

date

star

rhythm

to train

fever / a temperature

tray

clap

/ to lock (up)

safe (as in storing cash etc.)

/ hot / mild

bitter

brightness

, to meet = pickup, fetch

oil

to get ready

rude

/ / to break

storm

door garland

pain / stress / tyranny

triangle

layer

/ to get tired / tired

/ plate / saucer

pillar

/ to freeze

/ saliva / to spit

/ savoury chappati / fried leaven bread

bag (shopping)


a little

to stop / wait

interruption

ball (= sport)

schoolbag / satchel

/ to press

tailor

in the meanwhile

entrance (= place)

sea

/ each (= per item) / all

pain

worship / faith

to indicate

argue

medicine (= from chemist’s)

yoghurt

fine / baton

to enter

example

to burn (self)

pomegranate

beard

/ staircase

paternal grandfather / mother

alcohol

charity / alms

turn to field (as in playing e.g. in a cricket game)

lentil soup / boiled rice

/ dancing sticks

/ toothbrush

comb

sorry

day

match stick


Diwali (festival)

direction

/ / / son / daughter

wall

lamp

to run a shop

drought

/ to hurt (e.g. my arm hurts)

milk

scene

to show

gods / goddesses

church

country (in the)

to run / jog

rope

to lead / to draw

cotton thread

friend

grape

/ by / through

/ to push

commitment

to beat (heart)

money / rich

thanks

threat

trouble as in riot

Earth

earthquake

by force

/ to present / offering

religion

/ / business / business-man / woman

popcorn


metal

pomp

to think

/ religion / R.E

/ patient (adj.)

/ chimney

fog(gy)

, smoking

falls

class, form, (in school); (authorized standard

motorway

to wash

white bread

/ meditation; to care; to be careful

aim

to shiver

copy

map

nail

to watch

near

river

/ profit

weak

/ to bow / express greetings / greetings

Muslim prayer

example (rubric)

humble

soft

free time

nine night festival

surprise, wonder

new

luck (good / bad)

to have a bath


tap

nose

to put / to throw away

citizen

/ to dance

drama

Christmas

maternal grandparents

/ small / small child

fail

name (also = surname)

accounts

orange (= fruit)

bathroom

destruction

to run away

/ breakfast; refreshments; snacks

coconut

essay

salt

rule; regulation; usage, custom

despondent, despairing

decision

/ sign (road)

school

retired / retirement

criticism / gossip

to get out

to drip

damage / loss

New Year

leader (e.g. of travel group)

/ servant / employee / job

note

justice


to catch / to hold

/ to cook

leg

stair / step

salary, pay

to digest

/ to knock something or someone down

belt

curtain

to fall

tin (metal)

kite

butterfly

– husband - wife

( cards (playing)

letter

journalist

stone

cheese

paw paw

change (small)

, to marry

abroad

envelope

licence

sweat

acquaintance / introduction

nurse / hostess / maid

result

test / examination

suburb

/ / excursion, trip

environment

mountain (s)

, fried leaven bread

cross-legged posture


to windsurf

/ mammal / birds

to choose

to go past (by car / on foot)

to wear

before (conj.)

to reach / to arrive

moment

fan

bread

/ ( ) to ripen / ripe (fruit)

, wallet

turban

at the back

to return, come / go back

trousers

rail tracks

board (white / black)

bandage

lesson

neighbour

water sports

- Patra –fritters ( a savoury)

slim / thin

to spread

leaf

page

, papaddom

to feel / to get

foundation

/ spinach

animal (pet)

wing

watered down / light

cage

– cousin / brother / sister


( , , ,

/ back

drink

sweet (as in boiled sweet)

serve food

to drink

yellow

brush

adult

proof

/ man / woman

bridge

library

to ask

worship ritual

revered / respected

cardboard (box)

to lock up somebody

flood

Puri, (a kind of fried bread);completed / finished

tail

tummy

suitcase

firm, company

penda – a sweet meat

wheel

money

soft

packet

parrot

blouse

/ nutrition / nutritious

to be able to afford

grandson / daughter / child

well known


progress; advance

exhibition

pollution

bowing with folded hands

/ / valid

to try (to do something)

activity

/ admission charge

/ question

occasion

animal

primary school

prayer

honest

dear (= letters)

love

only

paragraph

fireworks

difference

duty

compulsory

to travel; to roam about; to turn around

salty food / savoury

complaint

again

to get caught up in

fruit

courtyard

to blow up

lantern

profit, gain, advantage

Faluda - a dessert

to get used to

contribution


balloon

ruler

leisure respite, spare time

shower (= bathroom); fountain

flower

to swell

to change

to spread

/ to throw (away)

to skin / to shell

to go bad

garden

to save (= money)

/ childhood

to escape / to be saved

baby (commonly used for animal babies)

market (place)

bite / piece

to show

lamp

/ ( to change (= money)

almond

to become, get

/ (in the) afternoon

jar, pot (e.g. jam)

ice

alright / proper(ly)

brave

excuse

outside

female friend

!/ ! great! cool!

/ to burn

bracelet

sea port / harbour


closed

both

fire brigade

firemen

garden

side (e.g. on this side)

bottle

/ to boil / boiled potatoes

matter

/ door

window

baby / child

to burn something

bench

/ to build

poor thing / pitiable

/ / quite / totally / fair

cat

seed

ill

to be scared of

intelligence

ear studs

to shout, scream

unemployed

son

/ / / to sit / seat

unconscious

to speak

/ devotee

to act (in a play)

to roam about without any aim

to hit / bump into

flame

to learn

// niece


// nephew

showy, pompous (e.g. dress)

fear

awful, terrible, horrific

full / in abundance

to fill (in) (= to fill cup / to fill a form)

trust

recommendation

splendid

to bark

- brothers and sisters

male friend

part

to run away

seldom

/ fare

to rent, hire

cooked rice

senses

weight

Indian

heavy (= weight)

cost / price

to like the taste

speech

language (foreign)

to break (e.g. a glass)

to beg

rush / traffic / crowd

/ wet / to get wet

/ wall / wallpaper

powder

hunger

underground / tube / métro

geography


land

blue

/ mistake / forget

to collect

humid

present, gift

difference

mixed

meal

naive

ground floor

cellar (= house / wine)

corn / maize

building

brain

mosquito

, strong

enjoyment

porter / labourer

peas

station

to help

honey

- middle (in the middle of)

medium (= height / length)

/ mind / favourite

refusal

/ person (= human being)

entertainment

free (= no charge)

hen / chicken

chilli - pepper

/ to twist

pepper

dead / death

ointment


cream

mosque

masala – dosa (rice pancake)

spices

importance

great

to practise

month

guest

labour, exertion, effort, work

please

palace

to meet (by intention)

agree

group / club

secretary

temple

earthen pot

mother - father / parents

butter

fly

fish

soil / earth

to enjoy

head (= body)

medium

secondary school

respect

to believe

/ to measure / size

moderate

/ ? forgiveness / forgive me? / pardon?

kind

to hit (a ball / a person)

van (delivery)

owner


massage

monthly - (magazine / meeting)

information

( floor (e.g. 1st floor)

/ bead necklace / rosary

gardener

/ to ask for

just about

illness

meat

party

friend

capital

friendly

close (as in eyes)

candle

zero / dot

main (e.g. station / road / course)

crown

according

point

greetings

to postpone

visit

difficult

Muslim

passenger

to put (= to lay)

stupid

/ idol / statue

root

rainbow

to set / organise a table / desk

playing field

dirty


dry fruit and nuts

get on with (a person )

/ to gain, mix / person who gains or mixes

fair

henna

to send

enjoyment / fun

slippers

a pair of socks

, wave

/ mouth / face

peacock

sweet lime / orange

/ bland / not hot or salty

expensive, dear

/ machine / mechanic

list

young person

appropriate /

plan, project

figure (of money)

Rakshabandhan – a festival

to roam about aimlessly

duvet

holiday

/ to present / presentation

to cry

pound (in weight)

cancel

to play

Ramadan

comedy

to depart

semolina

juice


to be interested in

chemistry

receipt

kitchen

street / road

to stay, remain

pleasant (as per scenery)

, to paint

ash

a thread to tie on the wrist

to keep

tune

furniture

/ Kingdom / state (as in India) / party (= political)

- King - Queen

glad(ly)

Raita

/ national / international

await

relief

to cook

rickshaw

ways and customs

aubergine

beauty

rupees

in person

handkerchief

to pour

sand (castle)

railway / train

silk

hard cash

to forbid (forbidden)

disease


(un) healthy

diary

daily

wages

Muslim fast

flattened bread

to plant

exciting

/ to cry

/ to fetch / get / take / bring

characteristic

to write

pertaining to

to put on / to hit

, marriage

to hang

to slip

army

garlic

( / ) to go (ice / roller) skating

to limp

rectangle

length

stick

feeling

to feel hurt / to hurt

sweet round edible balls

kick

benefit

a kiosk on four wheels

red

temptation / greed

long

line

green


smooth

lemon

sly / cunning

to wipe

robbery

article / writing

people (= in general)

/ steel

flour

frying pan

exhausted

greed

blood

lawyer

time

praise

to play (e.g. music)

without

etcetera

promise / word

to weigh

elder

to roll (a chapatti)

to grow / increase

, wood / forest

vegetation

– husband - wife

/ rain / shower (= weather)

/ annually

steam

class

to describe

, year

attitude

to settle / live


spring

people

to look at

love

early

to flow (as in a river)

communication (as in relationship / letters / telephone / transport)

to distribute

to turn

bowing

whirl wind

sentence

to be hurt

fair (= just)

/ instrument

to wait for

bowl (e.g. of fruit)

hedge

speech

tale

atmosphere

- debate

cloud

dish (food)

to spend (= money)

gas / wind

/ turn

story

parents

/ / flag

to plant

storm(y)

to wash up

stale

transport


hairbrush

to sweep

fault

( curly (= hair)

bend

to read

objection

development

detail

/ ( ) idea / thought / to take care

funny (= strange)

electricity / lightning

science

student

ceremony / ritual

polite

request

section

plane

to have a break

huge

about (as in write about)

trust

subject (favourite)

area, district

to select / pick

to go through (as in pain / time)

ring

- animosity

creeper

to sell

person

/ to organise

athletics

strength

possible


to decorate

word

bedroom

bet

cold (e.g. have a cold)

lemon-juice drink

shame

/ body

to begin/start

/ city

vegetables

vegetarian

quiet

teacher

advice

winter

discipline

/ to learn / apprentice (-ship)

a sweet dish

good wishes

to bake

boss

hobby

discovery

faith

/ Mr / Mrs

breath

/ (

extreme e.g. temperature (minus zero)

facility

relative (= relation)

to decorate

to rot

continuously

apple

successful


cleaning

/ white

member

meeting

to understand

time

news

society

even ( as in level)

to cut

function

inclusion

to repair

collectively

civil servant

to compare

procession

address

fine (= weather)

/ good

lake

advice

/ (in the) morning

ride

question

cheap (= not expensive)

to bear

assistant / helper

shared

signature

safe

a little

tour

easy

to burn


to fold

number

music (pop / classical / folk)

museum

tangerine / orange

to hide

/ satisfaction / satisfactory

message

dusk

contact

parcel

care

/ culture / cultured / elegant

bicycle

lump sugar

/ / to look after / to be careful

right (= correct)

well / in good health; intact

/ sari / short sari

with

simple

instrument / tool

snake

/ / to clean / cleaning

proof

soap

ingredients

magazine

luggage

usually

opposite (prep)

treatment / care

/ totally

/ careful!

// to sweep / vacuum clean /


– mother – father in law

adventure

literature

narrow

chain

/ (in the) evening

to stich

to hear

coin

without, except, excluding

lion

ladder / stair case

/ ( straight (e.g. hair)

to sew

to dry

/ happiness / pleasant / enjoyable

made of cotton

carpenter

to correct

convenience, facility

/ / beautiful

/ to dry up or slim down / to dry

/ to swell

instruction

quite / lonely

( ) sun (rise)

to sleep

to sniff

dry ginger

vermicelli

to serve

/ gold / golden

/ needle

place, spot

belonging to a place, local


condition

fat

love

competition

cemetery

smile

clean

free / independent

own country

dream

innate, nature; character, disposition; habit, practice.

fit

to greet

delicious

to receive

right

pilgrimage to Mecca

/ still

stubbornness

arms

palm

hammer

not yet / not now

rivalry, competition

joy

light (as in weight); inferior or cheap quality

/ to move

Halwa (an Indian sweet)

air

weather

now

to laugh, to smile

light

/ / / to drive


always

present / absent

bone

kiosk

arm

elephant

injury / damage

row (e.g. of seats)

( series (e.g. on TV or mountains)

be defeated, lose (prize etc.) in game or competition

at present

accounts

to swing

Hindu

courage, bravery, boldness, daring, fortitude

order

heart

affection / with affection

harassed, troubled, tired, tormented

safe

lip

boat

the Holi festival, ceremonial bonfire

enthusiasm

/ / clever

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