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  2. Hindustani profanity - Wikipedia

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    Many English translations may not offer the full meaning of the profanity used in the context. [1] Hindustani profanities often contain references to incest and notions of honor. [2] Hindustani profanities may have origins in Persian, Arabic, Turkish or Sanskrit. [3] Hindustani profanity is used such as promoting racism, sexism or offending ...

  3. Poshak - Wikipedia

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    Poshak (पोशाक), also called Vāstra (वस्त्र) [1] is the Hindi term used for the complete attire used in the vedic period.As mentioned in Sanskrit literature and Buddhist Pali literature during the 6th century BC, the costumes belonging to the Vedic and post-Vedic period 1500 BCE to 350 BCE consisted of the antariya, which is the lower garment, the uttariya, which is a ...

  4. Aurat (word) - Wikipedia

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    Aurat is a word which means "woman" in many Asian languages including Bengali, Hindi-Urdu, Persian, Punjabi, and Sorani Kurdish. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It occurs in Azerbaijani as "arvad" and Ottoman Turkish as "avret".

  5. Dress code - Wikipedia

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    Cannes Film Festival has a dress code that requires men to wear tuxedos and women to wear gowns and high-heeled shoes. [1] A dress code is a set of rules, often written, with regard to what clothing groups of people must wear. Dress codes are created out of social perceptions and norms, and vary based on purpose, circumstances, and occasions.

  6. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  7. Modesty - Wikipedia

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    Men and women typically wear traditional dress during religious ceremonies and rituals in a temple, with women wearing saris or regional Indian dress. [102] In Indonesia and Cambodia, Hindu temple visitors are often requested to wrap their waist with a traditional single piece cloth called kamben , wastra or sarung , with or without saput .

  8. Purdah - Wikipedia

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    In the past around the 1970s, upper and middle-class women in towns in Pakistan would wear burqas over their normal clothes in public. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The burqa was the most visible dress in Pakistan. [ citation needed ] It is typically a tent-like garment worn over the ordinary clothes and is made of white cotton.

  9. Hindustani kinship terms - Wikipedia

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    The kinship terms of Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) differ from the English system in certain respects. [1] In the Hindustani system, kin terms are based on gender, [2] and the difference between some terms is the degree of respect. [3]