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Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker.Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective.
Zenana (Persian: زنانه, "of the women" or "pertaining to women"; [1] Urdu: زنانہ; Bengali: জেনানা; Hindi: ज़नाना) is the part of a house belonging to a Muslim family in the Indian subcontinent, which is reserved for the women of the household. [2]
This day to day language was often referred to by the all-encompassing term Hindustani." [5] In Colonial India, Hindi-Urdu acquired vocabulary introduced by Christian missionaries from the Germanic and Romanic languages, e.g. pādrī (Devanagari: पादरी, Nastaleeq: پادری) from padre, meaning pastor. [6]
Many of the Hindi and Urdu equivalents have originated from Sanskrit; see List of English words of Sanskrit origin. Many loanwords are of Persian origin; see List of English words of Persian origin, with some of the latter being in turn of Arabic or Turkic origin. In some cases words have entered the English language by multiple routes ...
Farida Khanum (Urdu: فرِیدہ خانُم) is a Pakistani classical singer [broken anchor].She is also known by her honorific title Malika-e-Ghazal (The Queen of Ghazal) in both Pakistan and India [2] and is widely regarded as one of the greatest exponents of the ghazal genre of singing.
Bibi, also spelled Bebe, is frequently used as a respectful title for Muslim, Christian and Sikh women in South Asia when added to the given name. [1] [2] Bibi, like Begum, is used as a surname by many women in the region. [3] In Anglo-Indian, the term bibi came to be seen as a synonym for mistress. [2]
Hina is a female name. In South Asia (Urdu: حنا), it is derived from Henna. In Japan, it is derived from light or sun. In the Pacific Islands, it is derived from a goddess of various Polynesian cultures. [1] Notable people with the name include: Hina (wrestler)(born 2006), Japanese professional wrestler
History [ edit ] While ghazal originated in Arabia evolving from qasida , some of the common features of contemporary ghazal , such as including the takhallus in the maqta ' , the concept of matla' , etc., did not exist in Arabic ghazal .