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Definition: Urdu |
UrduAdjective1. Relating to the Urdu language; "Urdu poetry". Noun1. The official literary language of Pakistan, closely related to Hindi; widely used in India (mostly by Moslems); written in Arabic script. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Urdu" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
Crosswords: Urdu |
| English words defined with "Urdu": Arabic, Arabic script. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Urdu" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Asturian (Urdu), Czech (urdu), German (urdu), Hungarian (urdu), Portuguese (urdu), Serbo-Croatian (urdu). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Indo-European - Indo-Iranian - Indo-Aryan - Central Zone - Western Hindi - Hindustani - Urdu Urdu is an Indo-European language which originated in the 13th century and is closely related to Hindi.
Urdu is the state language of Pakistan, spoken by 10 million Pakistanis as mother tongue. Worldwide, about 60 million mother tongue speakers exist. Including second language speakers, 104 million people speak Urdu. The language is spoken in these countries:
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Urdu is closely related to Hindi but is written in an extended Arabic alphabet rather than in Devanagari. Urdu also has more loans from Arabic and Persian than Hindi has.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Urdu language."
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Civil Liberties | Pakistan | The Biharis are Urdu speakers from the Indian state of Bihar who went to East Pakistan--now Bangladesh--at the time of partition in 1947. When Bangladesh became independent in 1971, the Biharis sought resettlement in Pakistan. (references) |
Economic History | Uae | Radio and television broadcasts are primarily in English, Arabic, Hindi and Urdu. (references) |
Oman | Languages: Arabic (official), English, Baluchi, Urdu, Swahili, Hindi and Indian dialects. (references) | |
Political Economy | Pakistan | Anti-American sentiment runs high in some quarters as the clergy and the media, particularly the Urdu press, thrive on anti-Americanism. (references) |
Pakistan | Hardly 10% of the people regularly read newspapers and over 90% of them read Urdu papers which are not noted for their objectivity, fairness or accuracy. (references) | |
Travel | Pakistan | Language - The official language of Pakistan is Urdu. (references) |
Women | Pakistan | Judicial reforms begun in April with foreign funding included plans to publish laws in Urdu, which is understood by the majority of citizens; some laws had been published in Urdu as of year's end. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Urdu" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Urdu" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Urdu": urdu-speaking. | |
Ending with "Urdu": Hindi-urdu. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
urdu | 510 | site urdu | 35 |
urdu poetry | 290 | story urdu | 35 |
urdu news | 223 | jang news urdu | 34 |
urdu newspaper | 180 | newspaper pakistani urdu | 33 |
bbc urdu | 137 | urdu song | 32 |
learn urdu | 130 | urdu font | 31 |
urdu english dictionary | 96 | erotic story urdu | 29 |
bbc.co.uk urdu | 79 | messenger urdu | 28 |
urdu dictionary | 73 | urdu news papers | 28 |
bbc urdu.com | 61 | site urdu web | 28 |
pakistan urdu newspaper | 57 | bbc service urdu | 23 |
jang urdu | 56 | poem urdu | 23 |
news pakistan urdu | 46 | poet urdu | 22 |
sex story urdu | 46 | urdu language | 20 |
bbc news urdu | 43 | english to urdu | 20 |
point.com urdu | 42 | daily jang urdu | 20 |
joke urdu | 42 | shayari urdu | 20 |
sexy urdu story | 40 | sex urdu | 18 |
urdu ghazals | 38 | inpage urdu | 18 |
point urdu | 37 | chat urdu | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Urdu"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjuhë urdu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Asturian | Urdu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | езикът урду. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | urdu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Oerdoe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | زبان اردو. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | urdu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | urdu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uurday urdu. (various references) ordó. (various references) язык урду. (various references) urdu. (various references) urdu dili. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Urdu" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ardu, Erdut, Ordu, Ruju, Ru'uf, Udry, Udu, Ufdc, Umruh, urda, urdo, uru, Urug. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Urdu" (pronounced 'Ur"du'): Pudu, tamandu. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-r-u-u" | |
-1 letter: urd. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: durum. | |
+2 letters: durums. | |
+3 letters: arduous, augured, douceur, duumvir, humdrum, pursued, roundup, subduer, sutured, triduum, uncured, undrunk, undular, unguard, unround, unruled, unurged, uredium, usurped. | |
+4 letters: burgundy, corundum, cultured, desulfur, doublure, douceurs, duumviri, duumvirs, furibund, humdrums, humoured, mudguard, murmured, nurtured, odourful, outdrunk, proudful, residuum, roundups, rubicund, rubidium, rumoured, runround, ruptured, subduers, subdural, suburbed, sudarium, sulfured, surround, triduums, unargued, unburden, unburied, unburned, uncurbed, uncurled, uncursed, underbud, underbuy, undercut, underfur, underrun, unfurled, unground, unguards, unpruned, unpurged, unrounds, unrushed, unrusted, unsoured, unturned, upcurled, upcurved, uproused, uprushed, upsurged, upturned. | |
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