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  2. Persian and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani (sometimes called Hindi–Urdu) is a colloquial language and lingua franca of Pakistan and the Hindi Belt of India. It forms a dialect continuum between its two formal registers: the highly Persianized Urdu, and the de-Persianized, Sanskritized Hindi. [2] Urdu uses a modification of the Persian alphabet, whereas Hindi uses Devanagari ...

  3. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Compound verbs, a highly visible feature of Hindi–Urdu grammar, consist of a verbal stem plus a light verb. The light verb (also called "subsidiary", "explicator verb", and "vector" [ 55 ] ) loses its own independent meaning and instead "lends a certain shade of meaning" [ 56 ] to the main or stem verb, which "comprises the lexical core of ...

  4. Maqta' - Wikipedia

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    He can "talk to himself", "to somebody else", "refer to something" etc. For example Firaq Gorakhpuri, whose takhallus is the word for the common theme in Urdu poetry of the state of pining for the beloved, plays on his pen name and the word firaq: Urdu: تو یہ نہ سمجھنا کے فِراق تیری فِراق میں ہیں

  5. Diglossia - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, diglossia (/ d aɪ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s i ə / dy-GLOSS-ee-ə, US also / d aɪ ˈ ɡ l ɔː s i ə / dy-GLAW-see-ə) is where two dialects or languages are used (in fairly strict compartmentalization) by a single language community.

  6. What is 'preppy'? The old slang has a new meaning

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    "Preppy could be stylish and comfy," stated another girl. Adults are confused. Honestly, the new definition is perplexing, at least to anyone old enough to vote.

  7. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    The name Urdu was first introduced by the poet Ghulam Hamadani Mushafi around 1780. [29] [30] As a literary language, Urdu took shape in courtly, elite settings. [76] [77] While Urdu retained the grammar and core Indo-Aryan vocabulary of the local Indian dialect Khariboli, it adopted the Perso-Arab writing system, written in the Nastaleeq style.

  8. Matla' - Wikipedia

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    In Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry, the matla ' (from Arabic مطلع maṭlaʿ; Persian: مطلع; Azerbaijani: mətlə; Turkish: matla; Uzbek: matla; Urdu: مطلع) is the first bayt, or couplet, of a ghazal. [1] [2] In this sense, it is the opposite of the maqta'.

  9. Hindustani verbs - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani is extremely rich in complex verbs formed by the combinations of noun/adjective and a verb. Complex verbs are of two types: transitive and intransitive. [3]The transitive verbs are obtained by combining nouns/adjectives with verbs such as karnā 'to do', lenā 'to take', denā 'to give', jītnā 'to win' etc.