Progress Of Indic Languages Vs English - 2

[Bharatvarsh]

"chiDiya (bird) = pakshi"

Bodhi I don't think thats farsi or arabic, it always sounded native to me so I went back and checked:

"H चिड़ी ćiṛī [Prk. चडिआ; S. चट+इका], s.f. A hen sparrow; a bird:--ćiṛī-mār, s.m. A bird-catcher, a fowler.

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologi....100.199.platts "

pakshi is used in Telugu (but also pitta).