enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Mohmil - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohmil

    Mohmil (Urdu: مہمل) is the name given to meaningless words in Urdu, Hindustani and other Indo-Aryan languages, used mostly for generalization purposes. The mohmil word usually directly follows (but sometimes precedes) the meaningful word that is generalized. The mohmil word usually rhymes with the meaningful word, or shares the same consonants.

  3. Urdu Dictionary Board - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_Dictionary_Board

    In 1977, the Board published the first edition of Urdu Lughat, a 22-volume comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language. [2] The dictionary had 20,000 pages, including 220,000 words. [3] In 2009, Pakistani feminist poet Fahmida Riaz was appointed as the Chief Editor of the Board. [4] In 2010, the Board published one last edition Urdu Lughat. [3]

  4. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_grammar

    Compound verbs, a highly visible feature of Hindi–Urdu grammar, consist of a verbal stem plus a light verb. The light verb (also called "subsidiary", "explicator verb", and "vector" [ 55 ] ) loses its own independent meaning and instead "lends a certain shade of meaning" [ 56 ] to the main or stem verb, which "comprises the lexical core of ...

  5. Semantics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics

    Semantics studies meaning in language, which is limited to the meaning of linguistic expressions. It concerns how signs are interpreted and what information they contain. An example is the meaning of words provided in dictionary definitions by giving synonymous expressions or paraphrases, like defining the meaning of the term ram as adult male sheep. [22]

  6. Category:Urdu-language words and phrases - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Urdu-language...

    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. Please keep this category purged of everything that is not an article about a word or phrase. See as an example Category:English words.

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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of...

    from Hindi and Urdu: An acknowledged leader in a field, from the Mughal rulers of India like Akbar and Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj Mahal. Maharaja from Hindi and Sanskrit: A great king. Mantra from Hindi and Sanskrit: a word or phrase used in meditation. Masala from Urdu, to refer to flavoured spices of Indian origin.

  8. Category:Urdu - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Urdu

    Urdu-language words and phrases (2 C, 49 P) Pages in category "Urdu" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent ...

  9. Grammar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar

    The formal study of grammar is an important part of children's schooling from a young age through advanced learning, though the rules taught in schools are not a "grammar" in the sense that most linguists use, particularly as they are prescriptive in intent rather than descriptive.