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Feroz-ul-Lughat Urdu Jamia (Urdu: فیروز الغات اردو جامع) is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary published by Ferozsons (Private) Limited. It was originally compiled by Maulvi Ferozeuddin in 1897. The dictionary contains about 100,000 ancient and popular words, compounds, derivatives, idioms, proverbs, and modern scientific, literary ...
Derives from namaz, the Persian word for obligatory daily prayers usually used instead of salah in the Indian subcontinent. [63] Peaceful, peacefools, pissful, shantidoot India: Muslims Derives from the common statement that Islam is a "religion of peace". Sometimes the Hindi word "shantidoot" (Messenger of Peace) is used. [61] Osama North America
Ifrit, also spelled as efreet, afrit, and afreet ( Arabic: عفريت, romanized : ʿifrīt, lit. ' [ʕifriːt]' ( listen ⓘ ), plural عفاريت ʿafārīt ), is a powerful type of demon in Islamic culture. The ʿafārīt are often associated with the underworld and identified with the spirits of the dead, and have been compared to evil ...
Farhang-e-Asifiya ( Urdu: فرہنگ آصفیہ, lit. 'The Dictionary of Asif') is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary compiled by Syed Ahmad Dehlvi. [ 1] It has more than 60,000 entries in four volumes. [ 2] It was first published in January 1901 by Rifah-e-Aam Press in Lahore, present-day Pakistan. [ 3][ 4]
The word jungle originates from the Sanskrit word jaṅgala (Sanskrit: जङ्गल), meaning rough and arid. It came into the English language via Hindi in the 18th century. [163] It is more relevant that it cognate word in Urdu derived from Persian, جنگل (Jangal), did refer to forests. [164] Julep from گلاب gulab (rose(گل gul ...
Traditionally, born in the purple[ 1] (sometimes "born to the purple") was a category of members of royal families born during the reign of their parent. This notion was later loosely expanded to include all children born of prominent or high-ranking parents. [ 2] The parents must be prominent at the time of the child's birth so that the child ...
Rekhta ( Urdu: ریختہ [ˈreːxtaː]; Hindi: रेख़्ता [ˈreːxtaː]) was an early form of the Hindustani language. This style evolved in both the Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts and is considered an early form of Modern Standard Urdu and Modern Standard Hindi. [ 2] According to the Pakistani linguist and historian Tariq ...
In an 1892 dictionary, okchamali is deep blue or green, okchakko is pale blue or bright green, and a third word kili̱koba is bright green (resembling a kili̱kki, a species of parrot). [6] By 1915, the authoritative Byington dictionary gives okchako as blue and okchamali as green, blue, gray, verdant. [ 7 ]