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  2. Hindustani vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [2]

  3. Radif - Wikipedia

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    In Persian, Turkic, and Urdu ghazals, the radīf (from Arabic رديف; Persian: ردیف; Azerbaijani: rədif; Turkish: redif; Urdu: ردیف; Uzbek: radif) is the word which must end each line of the first couplet and the second line of all the following couplets. [a] It is preceded by a qafiya, which is the actual rhyme of the ghazal. [1] [2 ...

  4. Urdu Dictionary Board - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Close coupled - Wikipedia

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    Close-coupled sedan, an obsolete type of automobile Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Close coupled .

  6. Persian and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani (sometimes called Hindi–Urdu) is a colloquial language and lingua franca of Pakistan and the Hindi Belt of India. It forms a dialect continuum between its two formal registers: the highly Persianized Urdu, and the de-Persianized, Sanskritized Hindi. [2] Urdu uses a modification of the Persian alphabet, whereas Hindi uses Devanagari ...

  7. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Modern Standard Urdu, commonly referred to as Urdu (/ ˈ ʊər d uː /; اُردُو, pronounced ⓘ, ALA-LC: Urdū), is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Perso-Arabic script. [12] It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside English.

  8. Equine conformation - Wikipedia

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    Also known as close coupled. Associated with a short back, which will enable high thrust and collection. Rough coupling/widow's peak. In the loin, the horse has a hollow area considerably lower than foremost part of the croup. Fairly uncommon, and does not affect the horse's use in sport. Cosmetically displeasing.

  9. Couplet - Wikipedia

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    The word "couplet" comes from the French word meaning "two pieces of iron riveted or hinged together". The term "couplet" was first used to describe successive lines of verse in Sir P. Sidney's Arcadia in 1590: "In singing some short coplets, whereto the one halfe beginning, the other halfe should answere."