RBSE Secondary Sindhi flashcards

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Gady

The prose section of the Sindhi textbook, containing narrative, biographical, travel, and reflective lessons whose authors, themes, and characters are tested in board examinations.

Mool bhav

The central theme or underlying message of a prose lesson, usually expressed as a general value such as patriotism, dignity of labour, or communal harmony.

Jivan-parichay

A biographical sketch lesson type in Sindhi prose that presents a person's life, achievements, and contribution, often tested through character and contribution questions.

Safar-namo

A travel account in Sindhi prose describing places visited and impressions formed; questions usually ask about the route, the places, and the writer's observations.

Padya

The poetry section of the prescribed Sindhi textbook, comprising songs, kafis, baits, and couplets whose poets, forms, and sentiments are examined.

Bhavarth

The line-by-line explanation of a poem, followed by a closing statement of its message; a standard long-answer requirement in Sindhi poetry papers.

Tek

The refrain of a Sindhi song - a line repeated at intervals - which is distinct from the poem's title and is often asked about separately.

Upma

The Sindhi poetic device of simile, in which one thing is explicitly compared to another using a comparison word; contrasted with rupak, which is direct metaphor.

Anupras

Alliteration in Sindhi verse, the repetition of the same initial consonant sound across nearby words to create rhythm and musical effect.

Rapid reading passage

A short supplementary passage read silently for speed and gist; its questions are answered directly from stated sentences rather than by inference or outside knowledge.

Chronological ordering item

A supplementary-reader question presenting events out of sequence; the correct answer follows the order in which events occur in the passage, not their importance.

Vocabulary in context

A question asking for the meaning, synonym, or antonym of a passage word as it is used there, which may differ from its most common dictionary sense.

Pulng

The masculine gender in Sindhi grammar; adjectives and verbs agreeing with a masculine noun take masculine forms, which differ from feminine and neuter agreement.

Istri-ling

The feminine gender in Sindhi grammar; agreement of adjectives, postpositions, and verb auxiliaries with a feminine noun follows feminine forms.

Postposition

A Sindhi case marker placed after a noun, such as khe, jo, men, or te; forms like jo, ji, je inflect to agree with the following noun's gender and number.

Bahu-vachan

The plural number in Sindhi; plural markers vary according to the noun's ending and class, so plural forms must be learned per noun type.

Sindhi word order

Sindhi sentences normally follow subject–object–verb order, which must be preserved when translating into Sindhi even if the source sentence places the verb earlier.

Nibandh

A Sindhi essay, structured with a title, introduction, two or three developed body paragraphs, and a conclusion, written on a prescribed general topic.

Application format

Sender's address, date, receiver's designation, salutation, subject line, body stating the request in the first sentence, and closing with the applicant's name.

Report writing

A factual composition with a heading and dateline, narrating an event in past tense in the third person, without personal opinion or conversational register.

Formal letter register

The style required in official Sindhi letters: full forms instead of contractions, no slang, a stated subject, and a polite but impersonal tone throughout.

Meaning-for-meaning translation

A translation approach that transfers sense rather than word order; literal transfer from Sindhi to English or Hindi usually produces ungrammatical target sentences.

Transliteration

Rendering a proper noun, number, or technical term in the target script by sound rather than by meaning, the standard practice in Sindhi–Hindi and Sindhi–English translation.

Idiom translation rule

A Sindhi idiom inside a passage must be replaced by an equivalent idiom in the target language, never translated word by word, to preserve its figurative force.

Shah Jo Risalo

The collection of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai's Sindhi verse, organised into surs such as Sur Sasui Abri and Sur Marui, forming the core of classical Sindhi poetry.

Sachal Sarmast

The Sufi poet of Daraza who wrote in Sindhi, Urdu, Persian, and Saraiki; his verse emphasises the unity of being and is sung as kafi and waee.

Sindhi script

A modified Perso-Arabic script of 52 letters, including aspirated and implosive consonants, read and written from right to left.

Sindhi folk romances

Classical narrative tales including Sassui-Punhun, Momal-Rano, Umar-Marui, and Noori-Jam Tamachi, which supply the stories behind much Sufi Sindhi verse.

Ajrak

A block-printed Sindhi textile in deep red and indigo, worn as a shawl and treated as a marker of Sindhi cultural identity in heritage questions.

Muhavaro

A Sindhi idiom whose meaning is fixed and figurative; examination answers must give the established meaning and use it correctly in a sentence.

Akahani

A Sindhi proverb, often a rhyming pair expressing a general truth about conduct or consequence; the moral, not the literal wording, is the answer.

Aspiration contrast

A distinction between paired Sindhi consonants that differ only by breath release; such pairs form common distractors in vocabulary and spelling items.