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Urdu
[ oor-doo, ur-; oor-doo, ur- ]
noun
- one of the official languages of Pakistan, a language derived from Hindustani, used by Muslims, and written with Persian-Arabic letters.
Urdu
/ ˈɜː-; ˈʊəduː /
noun
- an official language of Pakistan, also spoken in India. The script derives primarily from Persia. It belongs to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family of languages, being closely related to Hindi but containing many Arabic and Persian loan words
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Urdu1
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Example Sentences
In its place came something which, striving to fuse Urdu and Telugu, seemed to devalue both.
Locals used to teach British officers Arabic, Hindi, Urdu and Persian.
The order came again, in Arabic and Urdu, along with a warning that otherwise access would be achieved with explosives.
App ka dua go,” Farhan recently implored of me in his native Urdu: “Pray for me.
To the left was West Pakistan, where they ruled, and spoke Urdu, and wrote in an alphabet that flowed like water under wind.
“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
He spoke Urdu exceedingly well, and it was difficult in the gloom to recognize him as a European.
If you did not talk Urdu like one of us, sahib, I should bid you die here in peace rather than fall in the first village.
Then he composed himself reverently to listen to fragments, hastily rendered into Urdu.
She is the centre of all idleness, intrigue, and luxury, and shares with Delhi the claim to talk the only pure Urdu.
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