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

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    Many loanwords are of Persian origin; see List of English words of Persian origin, with some of the latter being in turn of Arabic or Turkic origin. In some cases words have entered the English language by multiple routes - occasionally ending up with different meanings, spellings, or pronunciations, just as with words with European etymologies.

  3. List of English words of Indian origin - Wikipedia

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    1 Hindi or Urdu. 2 Kannada. 3 Malayalam. 4 Sanskrit. 5 Tamil. 6 Telugu. 7 Other languages. ... This is a list of words in the English language that originated in the ...

  4. 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 ]

  5. Gyani - Wikipedia

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    A gyani can be a male or a female, as the Sikh religion gives equal rights to both sexes. He or she will have undergone an intensive course of study and evaluation at an academic or religious institute, will have a thorough knowledge of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh Holy Scripture, and will have the ability to translate the words of sacred text into simple everyday language.

  6. Jñāna - Wikipedia

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    In Tibetan Buddhism, jñāna (Tibetan: ye shes) refers to pure awareness that is free of conceptual encumbrances, and is contrasted with vijñāna, which is a moment of 'divided knowing'.

  7. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  8. Gyan - Wikipedia

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    Baffour Gyan (born 1980), Ghanaian footballer; Christian Gyan (1978-2021), Ghanaian footballer; Gyan Evans (born 1960), Australian musician; Gyan Prakash Pilania (born 1932), Indian social reformer; Gyan Prakash (born 1952), historian of modern India; Gyan Singh (Fijian politician) Gyan Singh (Indian politician) Kiki Gyan (1957-2004), Ghanaian ...

  9. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or whose meanings have diverged to the point that present-day speakers have little historical understanding: for ...