झुग्गी (jhuggii)
noun
A single everyday sense: a makeshift shack or slum dwelling, most often heard in the plural/collective phrase झुग्गी-झोपड़ी (jhuggii-jhopdii).
Sense
1
:
makeshift shack, slum dwelling
noun, feminine
Synonyms: झोपड़ी (jhopdii), झोंपड़ी (jhompdii, variant form), कच्चा मकान (kachchaa makaan, improvised phrase, less specific)
Frequency: medium
Cultural Note: In Delhi-NCR, झुग्गी (jhuggii) is the everyday word for the informal settlements you see along railway lines, under flyovers, or on the edges of colonies -- it carries real social and political weight, showing up constantly in news reports about झुग्गी बस्ती (jhuggii bastii, 'slum settlement') demolitions and resettlement. It is descriptive rather than a slur, but it is not a word you'd use casually about someone's home to their face.
Common Mistakes: 1) Learners sometimes treat झुग्गी (jhuggii) as a neutral synonym for घर (ghar, 'house') -- it specifically implies a poor, informally built dwelling, often on unauthorized or government land, so using it for an ordinary home sounds odd or even insulting. 2) The common compound झुग्गी-झोपड़ी (jhuggii-jhopdii) is usually used as a collective/plural concept (referring to a slum cluster or slum-dwellers as a class), not as a simple plural of one hut.
Sample Sentences:
यह पूरा इलाका झुग्गियों से भरा हुआ है।
This whole area is full of shanties.
(yah pooraa ilaakaa jhuggiyon se bharaa huaa hai।)
रेलवे लाइन के किनारे सैकड़ों झुग्गियाँ बनी हुई थीं।
Hundreds of shacks had been built along the railway line.
(relve laain ke kinaare saikdon jhuggiyaan banii huii thiin।)
सरकार ने झुग्गी बस्ती को हटाने का आदेश दिया।
The government ordered the removal of the slum settlement.
(sarkaar ne jhuggii bastii ko hataane kaa aadesh diyaa।)
फ्लाईओवर के नीचे कुछ झुग्गियाँ बन गई हैं।
A few shanties have come up under the flyover.
(phlaaiiovar ke niiche kuchh jhuggiyaan ban gaii hain।)
अगर बारिश होती तो उन झुग्गियों में पानी भर जाता।
If it had rained, those shanties would have flooded.
(agar baarish hotii to un jhuggiyon men paanii bhar jaataa।)
झुग्गी में रहने वाले बच्चे भी स्कूल जाते हैं।
The children who live in the slum also go to school.
(jhuggii men rahne vaale bachche bhii skool jaate hain।)
प्रशासन ने झुग्गी वालों को दूसरी जगह बसाने का वादा किया है।
The administration has promised to resettle the shanty dwellers elsewhere.
(prashaasan ne jhuggii vaalon ko doosrii jagah basaane kaa vaadaa kiyaa hai।)
बुलडोज़र से झुग्गियाँ तोड़ी जा रही हैं।
The shacks are being demolished with bulldozers.
(buldozar se jhuggiyaan todii jaa rahii hain।)
अगली बारिश से पहले झुग्गियों की छत ठीक कर लो।
Fix the roofs of the shacks before the next rain.
(aglii baarish se pahle jhuggiyon kii chhat thiik kar lo।)
अखबार में लिखा था कि इस साल कई झुग्गी बस्तियाँ खाली करवाई जाएँगी।
The newspaper had written that many slum settlements would be cleared this year.
(akhbaar men likhaa thaa ki is saal kaii jhuggii bastiyaan khaalii karvaaii jaaengii।)
Morphology
Noun
(sg.f.direct):
झुग्गी
(jhuggii)
(sg.f.oblique):
झुग्गी
(jhuggii)
(pl.f.direct):
झुग्गियाँ
(jhuggiyaan)
(pl.f.oblique):
झुग्गियों
(jhuggiyon)