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

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    from Hindi पश्मीना, Urdu پشمينه, ultimately from Persian پشمينه. Punch 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 The drink was originally made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices.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. Pundit

  3. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    A calque / k æ l k / or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word (Latin: "verbum pro verbo") translation. This list contains examples of calques in various languages.

  4. Wikipedia:Contents/Glossaries - Wikipedia

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    Artificial intelligence • ComputerComputer science • Computing and IT • Computing and IT abbreviations • Algorithms and data structures • Alternative terms for free software • Object-oriented programming • Unified Modeling Language • Machine vision • Internet (Internet slang, Blogging)

  5. List of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

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    Meaning widened from chess to general sense of "adverse event, sudden stoppage" and by c.1700 to (from Persian 'chek' (چك)"a token used to check against loss or theft" (surviving in hat check) and "a check against forgery or alteration," which gave the modern financial use of "bank check, money draft" (first recorded 1798), probably ...

  6. Hindustani phonology - Wikipedia

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    In Urdu, there is further short [a] (spelled ہ, as in کمرہ kamra) in word-final position, which contrasts with [aː] (spelled ا, as in لڑکا laṛkā). This contrast is often not realized by Urdu speakers, and always neutralized in Hindi (where both sounds uniformly correspond to [aː] ).

  7. Urdu keyboard - Wikipedia

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    CRULP (Center for research for Urdu language processing) has been working on phonetic keyboard designs for URDU and other local languages of Pakistan. Their Urdu Phonetic Keyboard Layout v1.1 for Windows is widely used and considered as a standard for typing Urdu on Microsoft platform.

  8. List of replaced loanwords in Turkish - Wikipedia

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    From the root ol-, meaning "to be", "to become". [1] حافظه hafıza * hafıza: bellek: memory The new word is commonly used in electronics, like computer memory, i.e. önbellek for cache: خفیف hafif * hafif: yeğni ** light (in weight) The Turkish word is rarely used. حفریات hafriyat: hafriyat: kazı: excavation From the root kaz ...

  9. Laptop - Wikipedia

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    A laptop computer or notebook computer, also known as a laptop or notebook, is a small, portable personal computer (PC). Laptops typically have a clamshell form factor with a flat-panel screen on the inside of the upper lid and an alphanumeric keyboard and pointing device on the inside of the lower lid.