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​THE LANGUAGE OF PAKISTAN AND INDIA
Urdu, also known as Lashkari, is a Persianized standard register of the Hindustani language.
  • Urdu is the official national language of Pakistan.
  • In India, it is one of 22 constitutionally recognized official languages, having attained official status in five states; Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, as well as the national capital territory of Delhi.
  • Urdu replaced Persian as the official language of India in 1837 and was made co-official, along with English.

STRUCTURE
Composed of an Indo-Aryan vocabulary base,
Colloquial Urdu is largely mutually intelligible with colloquial Hindi, with the two registers being grouped together as Hindustani or Hindi-Urdu.
  • The literary vocabulary of formal Urdu draws heavily from Persian vocabulary and requires knowledge of some simple Persian grammatical structures,
  • Formal Hindi heavily draws from Sanskrit for its formal and technical vocabulary.

URDU STATISTICS
According to 2018 estimates, Urdu, is the 11th most widely spoken language in the world, with 170 million speakers, including those who speak it as a second language.
  • If grouped with Hindi, Hindustani would be the 3rd most spoken language in the world, with approximately 329.1 million native speakers, and 697.4 million total speakers of both Urdu and Hindi.

THE HISTORY OF THE NAME
Some linguists have suggested that the earliest forms of Urdu evolved from the medieval (6th to 13th century) Apabhraṃśa register of the Shauraseni language, a Middle Indo-Aryan language that is also the ancestor of other modern Indo-Aryan languages.
  • Between the 13th century and the end of the 18th century the language now known as Urdu was called Hindi, Hindavi, Hindustani, Dehlavi, Lahori, and Lashkari.
  • By the early 18th century, the common language around Delhi began to be referred to as “Zaban-e-Urdu,” a name derived from the Turkic word ‘ordu’ meaning “army” and is said to have arisen as the "language of the camp", or "Zaban-i-Ordu" or natively "Lashkari Zaban".

THE NAME URDU
The name Urdu was first introduced by the poet Ghulam Hamadani Mushafi around 1780.
  • As a literary language, Urdu retained the grammar and core Indic vocabulary of the local Indian dialect Khariboli.
  • It adopted the Nastaleeq writing system – which was developed as a style of Persian calligraphy.
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BEAUTIFUL WORDS


​IN THIS SECTION
The Universe and World We Live In
The Cosmic Creation
The Essence of Light and Dark
The Hands of Time
The Human Condition
  • Our Individuality
  • Our Originality and Creativity
  • The Human Connection
  • Peace and Kindness

Always embrace the common humanity that lies at the
​heart of us all.


​THE UNIVERSE AND WORLD WE LIVE IN
Dena - دینا - universe; the whole, the world; creation.
  • Ajraam E Falki Ka -اجرام فلکی کا - astronomical
  • Aalam- عالم - cosmos; the universe or universality of created things; so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.
    • Sansari- سنساری - cosmic; pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the earth alone; a harmonious system of things; orderly.
  • Fiza- فضا - sky; apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens: clouds.
    • Abr- ابر - cloud
  • Cheeni- چینی - celestial
    • Hawai - ہوائی - ethereal; pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial
    • Arshi - عرشی - empyreal; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven.
  • Dharti- دھرتی - Earth; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from spirits.
  • Gardish Karnay Wala Jarm Falki - گردش کرنے والا جرم فلکی - planet; celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit. Also, a star, as influencing the fate of men.
  • Sitaron Ka - ستاروں - stellar; pertaining to stars; astral. Full of stars; starry.
    • Najam- نجم - star
  • Sooraj - سورج - sun

THE COSMIC CREATION
Khalq- خلق - creation; act of creating or causing to exist, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. Also that which is produced or caused to exist, original work of art or of the imagination; nature. See Ejadi.
  • Ibtida - ابتدا - Genesis; act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; production; formation; origination. Also the first book of the Old Testament containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race.
  • Khuda- خدا - God
    • Dewta- دیوتا - divinity
    • Deeni - دینی - spiritual
    • Moujza - معجزہ - miracle, wonder.
  • Hyaat - جوش - life; state of existing or being
    • Hasti- ہستی - existence
    • Rooh- روح - essence (of life)
    • Dam - دم - breath; power of respiration, and hence, life.

THE ESSENCE OF LIGHT AND DARK
Aaftab - آفتاب‎‎ - sunlight
  • Tulu E Sehar - طلوع - sunrise; the first appearance of the sun above the horizon in the morning
  • Aaghaz - آغاز - dawn; break of day
  • Sehar - صبح - morning
  • Din Nikalna - دن - break of day
  • Tabanzdagi - تابندگی - luminosity; bright or shiny

Tareqi - تاریکی - darkness; absence of light; blackness; obscurity
  • Shaam- شام - nightfall; close of the day; the arrival of the night; the period at and just after dusk.
    • Adhi Raat Ke Baad - آدھی رات کے بعد - after midnight
    • Ghuroob E Aftaab - غروب آفتاب - sunset
    • Shafaq- شفق - gloaming; the fall of the evening.
    • Tareek- تاریک - dusk; twilight

THE HANDS OF TIME
Khalud- خلود - eternity; Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
  • Abad- ابد - infinity; unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; boundless, ; unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; endless or indefinite number
  • Abdiyat - ابدیت - timelessness; everlasting
  • Baqaa- بقاء - perpetuity; continuity, endurance
  • Doori Fardaa - دَورِ - afterlife; the great beyond
    • Aflak- افلاک - heaven; dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death. Also, the sky where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense, heavens. See Fiza.
  • Dwam- دوام - sempiternity; future duration without end
  • Faani - عارضی - transitory; continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent.

THE HUMAN CONDITION

OUR INDIVIDUALITY
Zaati- ذاتی - individual; person or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity
  • Alag - الگ - different; separate; not the same; other.
  • Yaktaa - یکتا - unique; a person without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole.

OUR CREATIVITY AND ORIGINALITY
Tajassus - تجسس - curiosity. Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.
  • Herani - حیرانی - surprise. The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion excited by what is sudden and strange; a suddenly excited feeling of wonder or astonishment.

Sapna - ڈریم - dream; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.

Hose - ھوس - ambition; an eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire the attainment of something

Ejadi- ایجادی - to be creative; having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.
  • Asli- اصلی - original; new; fresh; genuine; an original thinker or writer; an originator.
  • Mutasir- متاثر - inspired; moved to a higher level of thought, creativity, or motivation.
  • Jadeed - ایجادی - innovative; producing innovative ideas

Tasawar - تصور - imagination; the imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived.
  • Raye- رائے - idea; conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought. See creative.

THE HUMAN CONNECTION
Bashriyat - بشریت - humanity - the quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.
  • Mankind; the human race.
  • The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness.

Qurbat- قرب - closeness.

Chahat- حب - love; devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for someone.

Ulfat - روگ - affection; a settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment.

Dosti - دوستی - intimacy. Close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.

Jazba - جوش - passion; a state of an extreme or inordinate desire
  • Shoq - شوق - fervor; intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.
  • Josh - جوش - zeal; passionate ardor in the pursuit of something; an eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor.
  • Shiddat- شدت - intensity;
  • Arzoo - آرزو - longing; an eager desire; a craving; an earnest wish; an aspiration.
    • Chahna - چاہنا - a wish
    • Dili Arzoo - آرزو - craving; urgent desire; longing for.

Uns - انس - sociableness; companionableness; familiarity, friendliness, friendship, love, affection; society, companionship, fellowship; cheerfulness.
  • Aniis - अनीस - friend

PEACE AND KINDNESS
Sukoon- امن - peace; to make or become quiet; to be silent; to stop, harmony; concord.
  • Kahtir - قرار - calm; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed. by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.
  • Tanasub - تناسب - harmony; concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests; good correspondence; peace and friendship.

Nawazish - نوازش - kindness; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. A kind act; an act of goodwill.
  • Noo- نوع - kind;
  • Reham karna- رحم کرنا - compassionate; have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with.

Bachana- بچانا - protect; to defend; to guard
  • Saamna Karna - to defend; to protect; to secure against attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard

Translation provided by UrduPoint
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