Urdu
pronunciation
How to pronounce Urdu in British English:
UK [ˈʊədu:]
How to pronounce Urdu in American English:
US [ˈʊrdu]
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- Noun:
- the official literary language of Pakistan, closely related to Hindi; widely used in India (mostly by Moslems); written in Arabic script
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- Adjective:
- relating to the Urdu language
Word Origin
- Urdu
- Urdu: see hoard
- Urdu
- official language of Pakistan, 1796, from Hindustani urdu "camp," from Turkish ordu (source of horde); short for zaban-i-urdu "language of the camp." Compare Dzongkha, a variant of Tibetan and the official language of Bhutan, literally "the language of the fortress." "So named because it grew up since the eleventh century in the camps of the Mohammedan conquerors of India as a means of communication between them and the subject population of central Hindustan." [Century Dictionary]
Example
- 1. Samjhauta is the hindi and urdu word for compromise .
- 2. Express continues to run an urdu news channel .
- 3. Most of the preaching in the city 's many mosques is in urdu .
- 4. Their words were subtitled in urdu .
- 5. English , baluchi , urdu and indian dialects are commonly used .