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  2. Tap water - Wikipedia

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    In many countries, tap water usually has the quality of drinking water. Tap water is commonly used for drinking, cooking, washing, and toilet flushing. Indoor tap water is distributed through indoor plumbing, which has been around since antiquity but was available to very few people until the second half of the 19th century when it began to ...

  3. Ghara - Wikipedia

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    The typical shape of a ghara. Ghara is an earthen pot made in the Indian subcontinent.It is used for storing drinking water and keeping it cool. [1] [2]The word ghara has cognates in Pahari, Bengali [3] and Odia languages that can all be traced to the Sanskrit word ghaṭa meaning pot. [4]

  4. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    Hindi literature (Hindi: हिंदी साहित्य, romanized: hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Central Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Hindi, some of which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa such as Awadhi and Marwari.

  5. Which drinking water is healthiest? The pros and cons of tap ...

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    While some bottled water is from a spring or filtration system, research shows that nearly 65% of bottled water sold in the U.S. comes from municipal tap water. But Rumpler says there can be ...

  6. Lota (vessel) - Wikipedia

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    It is also used for serving water and liquor. [3] [4] According to the ancient Indian/Hindu-origin traditional medicine system of ayurveda, drinking water stored in the copper lota has health and nutritional benefits. [5] The vessel's regional variations include the bodna (Bengali: বদনা) in Bengal, the kindi in Kerala, and the Karuwa in ...

  7. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    from Hindi and Urdu panch پانچ, meaning "five". The drink was originally made with five ingredients: alcohol , sugar , lemon , water, and tea or spices . [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The original drink was named paantsch .

  8. Hindustani language - Wikipedia

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    Early forms of present-day Hindustani developed from the Middle Indo-Aryan apabhraṃśa vernaculars of present-day North India in the 7th–13th centuries. [33] [38] Hindustani emerged as a contact language around the Ganges-Yamuna Doab (Delhi, Meerut and Saharanpur), a result of the increasing linguistic diversity that occurred during the Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent.

  9. Ap (water) - Wikipedia

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    Ap (áp-) is the Vedic Sanskrit term for "water", which in Classical Sanskrit only occurs in the plural āpas (sometimes re-analysed as a thematic singular, āpa-), whence Hindi āp. The term is from PIE h x ap "water". [note 1] The Indo-Iranian word also survives as the Persian word for water, āb, e.g. in Punjab (from panj-āb "five waters").