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  2. Takhallus - Wikipedia

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    Pen names were widely adopted by Persian, Turkic, Urdu and Punjabi poets. [ 4 ] The takhallus is often included in the maqta' , the last couplet ( bayt ) of a ghazal .

  3. Maqta' - Wikipedia

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    In this sense, it is the opposite of the matla'. The poet's takhallus, or pen name, is usually employed in the maqta ', often in very creative ways. [1] A shayar can use the maqta ' in a variety of interesting ways. He can "talk to himself", "to somebody else", "refer to something" etc.

  4. Category:Urdu-language names - Wikipedia

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    Urdu-language surnames (49 P) Pages in category "Urdu-language names" ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...

  5. Category:Urdu masculine given names - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Urdu masculine given names" ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. Hindi–Urdu transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Note that Hindi–Urdu transliteration schemes can be used for Punjabi as well, for Gurmukhi (Eastern Punjabi) to Shahmukhi (Western Punjabi) conversion, since Shahmukhi is a superset of the Urdu alphabet (with 2 extra consonants) and the Gurmukhi script can be easily converted to the Devanagari script.

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

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    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. Urdu alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Roman Urdu also holds significance among the Christians of Pakistan and North India. Urdu was the dominant native language among Christians of Karachi and Lahore in present-day Pakistan and Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan in India, during the early part of the 19th and 20th century, and is still used by Christians in these places ...

  9. Baṛī ye - Wikipedia

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    Baṛī ye (Urdu: بَڑی يے, Urdu pronunciation: [ˈbəɽiː ˈjeː]; lit. ' greater ye ') is a letter in the Urdu alphabet (and other Indo-Iranian language alphabets based on it) directly based on the alternative "returned" variant of the final form of the Arabic letter ye/yāʾ (known as yāʾ mardūda) found in the Hijazi, Kufic, Thuluth, Naskh, and Nastaliq scripts. [1]