Words similar to punjabi

Example sentences for: punjabi

How can you use “punjabi” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The dashing, rather coarse cotton Punjabi phulkari shawls are made from fabric with patterns in orange, pink, green, red, and yellow.
Rupee banknotes are printed in India’s 15 official languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujurati, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, and Malayalam, as well as Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu.
Dhoni or doni `fishing or coastal trading vessel,' for example, may have entered English from Hindi, Marathi, Kanarese (or Canarese), or Telugu; dinghy `small boat' from Hindi or Bengali; kathiawari `breed of horses' from Hindi or Gujurati; khuskhus `aromatic grass, vetiver' from Hindi or Persian; kirpan `Sikh dagger' from Hindi or Punjabi; and nagkasser or nagkesar `tree'.
In Punjab, the home province of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, more than 850 people have been shot by police since he came to power two years ago, according to a Punjabi paper, the News . The police explanation of these killings is often that the suspects died "in cross-fire" during street battles with criminal gangs, but Pakistani lawyers and human rights groups say the killings are deliberate and authorized by Sharif's government, the Guardian said.
As Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif prepared to defend the withdrawl in a national broadcast, the paper said several mujahideen groups and the opposition Jamaat-i-Islami Party announced that anti-government demonstrations would be held in the Punjabi capital Lahore and in the port city of Karachi.