سرگھی

Corruption of Classical Persian سَحَرْگَاهِی (sahargāhī).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /ˈsə˦˥ɾᵊ.ɡiː(˥˩)/
• (atonal dialects) IPA^(key): /ˈsəɾᵊ.ɡʱiː/

سَرگھی • (sarghī) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਸਰਘੀ)

1. predawn meal taken before fasting
   1. (Islam) suhur
   2. (Hinduism) The meal given to a woman by her mother-in-law on Karwa Chauth.
2. (Islam, by extension) fajr

   Synonyms: دَھمّی دی نَماز (dhammī dī namāz), فَجر (fajr), فَجرا (fajrā)

The first sense is not exclusive to Islam.

• پیشِیں (peśīṉ, “dhuhr”)
• ڈِیگَر (ḍīgar, “afternoon, asr”)
• نَماشاں (namāśāṉ, “maghrib”)
• خُفتاں (xuftāṉ, “isha”)

• سَرگھی ویࣇا (sarghī veḷā, “predawn”)
• سَرگھی دی نَماز (sarghī dī namāz, “fajr prayer”)

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “سرگھی”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]
• “ਸਰਘੀ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2026
• Singh, Bhai Maya (1895), “ਸਰਘੀ”, in The Panjabi Dictionary, Lahore: Munshi Gulab Singh and Sons.