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

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    from charpoy चारपाई,چارپائی Teen payi (तीन पाय) in Hindi-Urdu, meaning "three legged" or "coffee table". [26] Thug from Thagi ठग,ٹھگ Thag in Hindi-Urdu, meaning "thief or con man". [27] Tickety-boo possibly from Hindi ठीक है, बाबू (ṭhīk hai, bābū), meaning "it's all right, sir". [28]

  3. Umbral - Wikipedia

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    Umbral is derived from the Latin word umbra, meaning "shadow".It is also the Spanish and Portuguese word for "threshold" and is sometimes used as a surname in those languages.

  4. Umbra, penumbra and antumbra - Wikipedia

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    Umbra, penumbra and antumbra of Earth and images that could be seen at some points in these areas (Note: the relative size and distance of the bodies shown are not to scale.)“… The Earth’s shadow has two distinct parts,… the UMBRA is the part of the shadow where all direct sunlight is blocked by the Earth; the PENUMBRA of the shadow is ...

  5. What is an umbra? A penumbra? Here's some terms to know ... - AOL

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    The umbra is the inner, cone-shaped part of the shadow. It is the part in which all of the light has been blocked. What is the penumbra during an eclipse. The second shadow is called the penumbra.

  6. 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]

  7. List of Sanskrit and Persian roots in Hindi - Wikipedia

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    The following is an alphabetical (according to Hindi's alphabet) list of Sanskrit and Persian roots, stems, prefixes, and suffixes commonly used in Hindi. अ (a) [ edit ]

  8. Stygian - Wikipedia

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    Stygian Penal Colony, a maximum security prison used by the Multiverse Authority in The One; Stygian Iron, an iron sword from the Rick Riordan novels; A giant worm and core boss in the Fantasy action video game Darksiders; The highest difficulty in the video game Darkest Dungeon; Stygian, a 2000 film, the directorial debut of James Wan

  9. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    In Hindi, yah "this" / ye "these" / vah "that" / ve "those" are considered the literary pronoun set while in Urdu, ye "this, these" / vo "that, those" is the only pronoun set. The above section on postpositions noted that ko (the dative/accusative case) marks direct objects if definite .