چپٹی

Urdu

Etymology

From چپٹ (capaṭ, “stick, adhere; hug, embrace”) +‎ ـی (-ī, “noun forming suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəp.ʈiː/

Noun

چپٹی • (capṭī) f

1. (vulgar, sex) scissoring
2. (by extension, vulgar) a lesbian, or lesbianism

Derived terms

• چپٹی باز (capṭī-bāz, “lesbian”)
• چَپْٹی بازی (capṭī-bāzī, “lesbian sex”)
• چپٹی زنی (capṭī-zanī, “tribbing”)

Further reading

• “چپٹی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “چپٹی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• “چپٹی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• S. W. Fallon (1879), “چپٹی”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “چپٹی”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.