झगड़ालू (jhagdaaloo)
adjective
An adjective (occasionally used as a noun for a person) describing someone quarrelsome or prone to fighting; derived from झगड़ा (jhagdaa, 'quarrel/fight').
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quarrelsome, prone to fighting
adjective
Synonyms: लड़ाकू (ladaakoo), फ़सादी (fasaadii, colloquial)
Frequency: medium
Cultural Note: This is the word for that one relative, neighbor, or colleague who seems to pick a fight over everything -- from the price of tomatoes to whose turn it is to park where. It carries a tone of exasperated affection or mild complaint rather than outright hostility, the kind of thing a mother might sigh while describing her son's नज़दीकी दोस्त (nazdiikii dost, close friend) or a neighbor everyone tolerates but gossips about.
Common Mistakes: 1) Learners sometimes treat this as a neutral descriptor, but it is mildly critical -- it labels someone as habitually difficult, not just someone in a one-off argument. 2) It describes a person's general temperament (a quarrelsome nature), not a single incident -- for that, Hindi would just describe the event with झगड़ा करना (jhagdaa karnaa), not call the person झगड़ालू (jhagdaaloo).
Sample Sentences:
वह बहुत झगड़ालू औरत है।
She is a very quarrelsome woman.
(vah bahut jhagdaaloo aurat hai।)
हमारा पड़ोसी बहुत झगड़ालू है, छोटी-छोटी बातों पर लड़ने लगता है।
Our neighbor is very quarrelsome, he starts fighting over the smallest things.
(hamaaraa padosii bahut jhagdaaloo hai, chhotii-chhotii baaton par ladne lagtaa hai।)
बचपन में वह इतना झगड़ालू नहीं था।
He wasn't this quarrelsome in childhood.
(bachpan men vah itnaa jhagdaaloo nahiin thaa।)
अगर तुम इतने झगड़ालू न होते, तो दोस्त तुम्हें छोड़कर नहीं जाते।
If you weren't so quarrelsome, your friends wouldn't leave you.
(agar tum itne jhagdaaloo n hote, to dost tumhen chhodkar nahiin jaate।)
इतना झगड़ालू मत बनो, थोड़ा शांति से बात करो।
Don't be so quarrelsome, talk a little more calmly.
(itnaa jhagdaaloo mat bano, thodaa shaanti se baat karo।)
मुझे डर है कि वह लड़का बड़ा होकर झगड़ालू न निकले।
I'm afraid that boy might turn out quarrelsome when he grows up.
(mujhe dar hai ki vah ladkaa badaa hokar jhagdaaloo n nikle।)
दफ्तर में सब उसे झगड़ालू कहकर बुलाते हैं।
Everyone in the office calls him quarrelsome.
(daphtar men sab use jhagdaaloo kahkar bulaate hain।)
मेरी सास बहुत झगड़ालू हैं, पर दिल की बुरी नहीं हैं।
My mother-in-law is very quarrelsome, but she's not bad at heart.
(merii saas bahut jhagdaaloo hain, par dil kii burii nahiin hain।)
क्या तुम्हें नहीं लगता कि वह थोड़ा झगड़ालू स्वभाव का है?
Don't you think he's a bit of a quarrelsome type?
(kyaa tumhen nahiin lagtaa ki vah thodaa jhagdaaloo svabhaav kaa hai?)
समिति ने उस झगड़ालू सदस्य को बैठक से बाहर कर दिया।
The committee removed that quarrelsome member from the meeting.
(samiti ne us jhagdaaloo sadasy ko baithak se baahar kar diyaa।)
Morphology
Adjective (invariant)
invariant:
झगड़ालू
(jhagdaaloo)