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  2. Smoky Night - Wikipedia

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    Smoky Night is a 1994 children's book by Eve Bunting. It tells the story of a Los Angeles riot and its aftermath through the eyes of a young boy named Daniel. The ongoing fires and looting force neighbors who previously disliked each other to work together to find their cats. In the end, the cats teach their masters how to get along.

  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 from Urdu, to refer to flavoured spices of Indian origin.

  4. Eve teasing - Wikipedia

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    The name "Eve" alludes to the Bible's creation story concerning Adam and Eve. [1] Considered a problem related to delinquency in male youth, [ 2 ] it is a form of sexual aggression that ranges in severity from sexually suggestive remarks, brushing in public places and catcalls , to groping .

  5. Hindustani verbs - Wikipedia

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    Shows perfective aspect of the main verb which means gives. a sense of completeness of the action, finality, or change of state. The meaning conveyed is the doer went somewhere to do something. and came back after completing the action. 1. karnā "to do" 2. nikalnā "to come out" 1. kar ānā "to finish (and come back)", "to do (and return)"; 2.

  6. Regional differences and dialects in Indian English - Wikipedia

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    Hinglish (the name is a combination of the words "Hindi" and "English") is a macaronic language, a hybrid of British English and South Asian languages – it is a code-switching variety of these languages whereby they are freely interchanged within a sentence or between sentences.

  7. Category:Hindi words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Language portal ... Pages in category "Hindi words and phrases"

  8. Hindustani vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    This day to day language was often referred to by the all-encompassing term Hindustani." [5] In Colonial India, Hindi-Urdu acquired vocabulary introduced by Christian missionaries from the Germanic and Romanic languages, e.g. pādrī (Devanagari: पादरी, Nastaleeq: پادری) from padre, meaning pastor. [6]

  9. Grammatical particle - Wikipedia

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    In Hindi, they may be used as honorifics, or to indicate emphasis or negation. In some languages, they are clearly defined; for example, in Chinese, there are three types of zhùcí (助詞; ' particles '): structural, aspectual, and modal. Structural particles are used for grammatical relations. Aspectual particles signal grammatical aspects.