About Boliyan

Boliyan by ShareYourGroup is a free collection of 69 Punjabi folk verses for giddha, bhangra, weddings, Lohri and Teeyan: boliyan, tappe, wedding songs and children's rhymes. Each verse is given in Gurmukhi, in Roman letters and with its meaning in English.

Traditional and new

Every verse carries a label.

• Traditional (21 verses): old folk verses of Punjab whose authors are unknown and which have been sung for generations. They belong to everybody. We give them as they are commonly sung, usually only the best-known lines. Folk verses live in many versions, so the words in your family or village may differ; that does not make either version wrong.
• New, written for this site (48 verses): boliyan composed for this site in the traditional patterns. They are not old folk verses, and we do not present them as such.

No lyrics of film songs, albums or living or recent poets are used. The Roman spelling is a simple reading aid, not a standard transliteration. The meanings are plain-English explanations, not word-for-word translations.

Help us get it right

If you know a line differently, or find a spelling mistake in the Gurmukhi, please tell us through the Contact page. Last reviewed in November 2026.

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