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  2. Nankana Sahib - Wikipedia

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    Nankana Sahib(Urdu: ننکانہ صاحب, romanized: Nankāna Ṣāhib; Punjabi: ننکاݨا صاحب(Shahmukhi), romanized: Nankāṇā Ṣāhib) is a city and capital of Nankana Sahib Districtin the Punjabprovince of Pakistan. It is named after the first Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Nanak, who was born in the city and first began preaching here.

  3. 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.

  4. Hindustani kinship terms - Wikipedia

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    e. 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] Moreover, "In Hindi and Urdu kinship terms there is clear distinction between the blood relations and affinal ...

  5. Nuqta - Wikipedia

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    Nuqta. The nuqta (Hindi: नुक़्ता, Urdu: نقطہ, romanized: nuqtā; sometimes also spelled nukta), is a diacritic mark that was introduced in Devanagari and some other Indic scripts to represent sounds not present in the original scripts. [A][1] It takes the form of a dot placed below a character. This idea is inspired from the ...

  6. Persian and Urdu - Wikipedia

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

  7. Wallah - Wikipedia

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    For the use in Arabic, see the Wiktionary entry wallah. Wallah, -walla, -wala, or -vala (-wali fem.), is a suffix used in a number of Indo-Aryan languages, like Hindi/Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali or Marathi. It forms an adjectival compound from a noun or an agent noun from a verb. [ 1 ] For example; it may indicate a person involved in some kind of ...

  8. Urdu poetry - Wikipedia

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    Urdu poetry (Urdu: اُردُو شاعرىUrdū šāʿirī) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the culture of India and Pakistan. According to Naseer Turabi there are five major poets of Urdu: Mir Taqi Mir (d.1810), Mirza Ghalib (d. 1869), Mir Anees (d.1874), Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) and ...

  9. Urdu Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. [1] [2] As of 15 October 2024, it has 213,123 articles, 185,654 registered users and 11,121 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 20th in terms of depth among Wikipedias with over ...