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  2. Tatsama - Wikipedia

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    Many of these, however, are borrowed indirectly from Bengali or Marathi, [3] or given meanings based on English or Perso-Arabic derived words already in use in Hindustani. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Any tatsama vocabulary occurring in Punjabi is borrowed from Hindi/Urdu, [ 6 ] and likewise tatsama words in languages spoken further west are likely to be ...

  3. Loanword - Wikipedia

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    The word calque is a loanword, while the word loanword is a calque: calque comes from the French noun calque ("tracing; imitation; close copy"); [5] while the word loanword and the phrase loan translation are translated from German nouns Lehnwort [6] and Lehnübersetzung (German: [ˈleːnʔybɐˌzɛt͡sʊŋ] ⓘ). [7]

  4. List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

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    Most of these words were not directly borrowed from Sanskrit. The meaning of some words have changed slightly after being borrowed. Both languages belong to the Indo-European language family and have numerous cognate terms; some examples are "mortal", "mother", "father" and the names of the numbers 1-10. However, this list is strictly of the ...

  5. Devanagari numerals - Wikipedia

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    In Nepali language ५, ८, ९ (5, 8, 9) - these numbers are slightly different from modern Devanagari numbers. In Nepali language uses old Devanagari system for writing these numbers, like ५ , ८ , ९

  6. Loan-translation - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Loan-translation

  7. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    In Marathi and Nepali, र ra as a first member of a conjunct also takes on an eyelash form when in front of glides and semivowels. e.g. र्‍य rya, र्‍व rva. As a final member with ट ṭa, ठ ṭha, ड ḍa, ढ ḍha, ड़ ṛa, छ cha, it is two lines together below the character pointed downwards.

  8. Banker to the Poor - Wikipedia

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    The repayment terms for the loans follows five basic guidelines: (1) loans last one year, (2) installments on the loan are to be paid weekly, (3) repayment on the loan begins one week after the loan is extended, (4) the interest rate is 20% on the loan, and (5) repayment every week is 2% of the total loan for fifty weeks straight.

  9. List of loanwords in Malay - Wikipedia

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    More recently, loans have come from Arabic, English and Malay's sister languages, Javanese and Sundanese. English loans are mostly related to trade, science and technology while Arabic loans are mostly religious as Arabic is the liturgical language of Islam, the religion of the majority of Malay