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[muckefuck]

जूते चलाने वाले पत्रकार की 'पिटाई'
joote chalaane vaale patrakaar kee 'piTaaee'
"Shoe-throwing journalist's 'beating'"

Notes:

1. चलाना chalaanaa is the causative of yesterday's चलना calnaa "move, go". वाला vaalaa is a very productive derivational suffix; added to infinitives, it forms compounds that answer to both English agent nouns and participial modifiers[*]. So the sense is something like "the one who made the shoe(s) go".
2. पत्रकार patrakaar "journalist" is a compound of पत्र "paper, letter" and Persian کار "action, work", a common suffix for deriving agent nouns.[**]
3. पिटाई "beating" is derived from पिटाना piTaanaa, which is the causative of पीटना peeTnaa "beat". Hindi has a very extensive system of verbal derivation including both causatives and double causatives. पिटाना could be translated as "have someone beaten" or "have X beat Y".

[*] In some cases, the latter are more fluidly translated as relative clauses, e.g. हिंदी सीखनेवाले विद्यार्थी hiMdee seekhnevaale vidyaarthee "the students who are learning Hindi".
[**] The Urdu equivalent is the Arabic-derived صحافي sahaafee (cf. Ar. صحافي ṣihāfī "idem", صحيفة ṣahīfah "newspaper", etc.).

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

वाला vaalaa is a very productive derivational suffix; added to infinitives, it forms compounds that answer to both English agent nouns and participial modifiers[*].

Is this the "-walla" of things such as "newspaper-walla"?

(Also, I'm annoyed that italic ṣ doesn't show up for me. I wonder which font I have to glare at.)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

It is indeed; it attaches quite freely to nouns, adjectives, and verbs.