The Guru Granth Sahib Dictionary is now available online!

This easy-to-use platform is made for everyone—whether you're a seeker, student, or scholar of Sikhi. It gives you access to the words and meanings in the Guru Granth Sahib like never before.

The dictionary is available in both Panjabi and English, with entries in Gurmukhi and Romanized Panjabi. It also includes grammar details and origins of words from languages like Prakrit, Old Panjabi, Persian, Arabic, Braj, Sindhi, Gujarati, and Sanskrit.

Dive into this amazing resource to deepen your understanding of the Guru Granth Sahib.

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Muharni

You can learn read Gurmukhi and speak Punjabi through Muharni. Muharni is an integral part of the practice of Punjabi phonology. If you have not mastered the Gurmukhi script you are strongly advised to learn the names of the Gurmukhi letters before beginning Muharni.

Muharni is the traditional way of learning Punjabi sounds by actually reciting them. It consists of letters of the Gurmukhi script in their natural order, each letter is followed by a vowel phoneme (matra) starting with that letter. This will equip you with every sound of Punjabi language whether consonant or vowel.

As a result, you will create a strong foundation in beginning to read Gurmukhi and speak Punjabi. Ideally, a learner should go through Muharni 100 times to fully remember the correct pronunciations.

Source: https://www.discoversikhism.com/punjabi/muharni.html

English To Gurmukhi Virtual Transliteration

This page allows you to write your name or a text in English and have it transliterated into Punjabi. To try it out, choose Punjabi as your language and begin typing. Simply write in English, once you press SPACE or hit ENTER you will see the phonetics of what you wrote in Punjabi.

See what your name (or other English phrases) looks like in Punjabi.

Try writing a phrase like 'Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh' or 'Tuhada ki haal hai' (how are you?)

(Please note: copying and pasting a word or sentence does not work, you have to type each word separately)

ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਕਾ ਖਾਲਸਾ ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਫਤਿਹ 

Source: https://www.discoversikhism.com/punjabi/punjabi_gurmukhi_transliteration.html

Learn Gurmukhi Alphabet

Punjabi and Gurmukhi

Punjabi is language (what we speak). Gurmukhi is a script (how we write Punjabi).

Source: https://www.discoversikhism.com/punjabi/punjabi_gurmukhi.html

Learn Gurmukhi Alphabet

All letters of a script have three aspects. Every letter has a particular shape, particular name and it represent a particular sound. Sanskrit may have been one of the first languages to group the letters according to their sounds. At one time there were only thirty-five letters in the Gurmukhi script, but later, five more letters were added in order to accommodate other sounds correctly. This need arose because many lone words are used in Punjabi. More recently, an extra character ( ਲ਼ ) was introduced. The shape, name and sound of Gurmukhi alphabet is as above:

Note: ੳ, ਅ, ੲ are only vowel bearers. So they don't represent any sound independently except ਅ as mukta vowel.

It can also be noted that most of the characters have a horizontal line at the upper part. The characters are connected mostly by this line called head line to form a word. A letter in Gurmukhi script can be partitioned into three horizontal zones. The upper zone denotes the region above the head line, where the vowels reside, while the middle zone represents the area below the headline where the consonants and some sub-parts of vowels are present. The middle zone is the busiest zone. The lower zone represents the area below middle zone where some vowels and certain half-characters lie in the foot of consonants.

Listen to the full alphabet as well.

Source: 

https://www.discoversikhism.com/punjabi/punjabi_gurmukhi_alphabet.html