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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 ...
from Hindi पश्मीना, Urdu پشمينه, ultimately from Persian پشمينه. Punch from Hindi and Urdu panch پانچ, meaning "five". The drink was originally made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices. [15] [16] The original drink was named paantsch. Pundit
The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.
In urdu/hindi, Paa is derived from Persian, the root word for Paa in urdu/hindi is Paaon (پاؤں) and for Jama is Kapra (کپڑا). Sepoy: Sepoy is the changed form of Persian word Sepaahi (سپاھی). In Webster Online dictionary, the origin of word Sepoy is given as Portuguese sipai, from Hindi & Urdu sipāhī, from Persian [1] [2].
It is bizarrely difficult to find a good quality dictionary of Urdu for English speakers, the printed dictionaries published by Oxford Dictionaries all only work in the opposite direction (i.e. definitions of English words in Urdu, but no definitions of Urdu words in English). I can find a lot of poor quality dictionaries of Urdu words, e.g ...
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Note that Hindi–Urdu transliteration schemes can be used for Punjabi as well, for Gurmukhi (Eastern Punjabi) to Shahmukhi (Western Punjabi) conversion, since Shahmukhi is a superset of the Urdu alphabet (with 2 extra consonants) and the Gurmukhi script can be easily converted to the Devanagari script.
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).