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In Persian and Kurdish as well as Urdu, the word 'awrat (Persian: عورت) derived from the Arabic 'awrah, has been used widely to mean "woman". Consulting Mohammad Moin's dictionary of Persian, 'awrah has two meanings: Nakedness; Young woman [17] The meaning in other derivatives ranges from "blind in one eye" to "false or artificial", among ...
Her first language was Urdu, and she was also fluent in Arabic, Persian and Bhojpuri languages. [4]: 118 & 123 She was the first woman poet to author a diwan, a complete collection of Urdu ghazals. The collection, named Gulzar-e-Mahlaqa, comprises 39 ghazals, and each ghazal consists of 5 couplets. The collection was published in 1824 after her ...
Ada Jafarey was part of a traditionally conservative society where women were not allowed to think and express independently. [2] But she was bold enough to express herself. [6] Despite having traditionality ingrained in her personality, she took part in modern art. [1] As early as 1950, she was recognized as the First Lady of Urdu Poetry.
Zenana (Persian: زنانه, "of the women" or "pertaining to women"; [1] Urdu: زنانہ; Bengali: জেনানা; Hindi: ज़नाना) is the part of a house belonging to a Muslim family in the Indian subcontinent, which is reserved for the women of the household. [2]
from Hindi पश्मीना, Urdu پشمينه, ultimately from Persian پشمينه. Punch from Hindi and Urdu panch پانچ, meaning "five". The drink was originally made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices. [15] [16] The original drink was named paantsch. Pundit
Aisha Bibi, 12th-century noble woman, after whom a memorial and village are named in modern Kazakhstan; Bibi Mubarika, 16th a Yusufzai Pashtun Empress consort in Mughal empire. She was a wife of first Mughal emperor Babur. Bibi Ambha, the Hindu origin mother of Sikandar Lodi [5] Asia Bibi, a Catholic Christian worker accused of blasphemy in ...
But when I called her recently to ask if she ever thought she would see a woman President in her lifetime, she paused before answering: "No." My grandma was born roughly 10 years after women got ...
Urdu in its less formalised register is known as rekhta (ریختہ, rek̤h̤tah, 'rough mixture', Urdu pronunciation:); the more formal register is sometimes referred to as زبانِ اُردُوئے معلّٰى, zabān-i Urdū-yi muʿallá, 'language of the exalted camp' (Urdu pronunciation: [zəbaːn eː ʊrdu eː moəllaː]) or لشکری ...