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  2. Taoguang Yanghui - Wikipedia

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    Taoguang Yanghui (Traditional Chinese: 韜光養晦; Simplified Chinese: 韬光养晦; English: Hide your strength, bide your time) is a political slogan of the People's Republic of China that describes an approach toward the international community and is commonly attributed to a speech by Deng Xiaoping. [1]

  3. Bidet - Wikipedia

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    A modern bidet (foreground) with a matching toilet A modern bidet that resembles a traditional washbasin type. A bidet (US: / b ɪ ˈ d eɪ / ⓘ or UK: / ˈ b iː d eɪ /) is a bowl or receptacle designed to be sat upon in order to wash a person's genitalia, perineum, inner buttocks, and anus.

  4. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    Many loanwords are of Persian origin; see List of English words of Persian origin, with some of the latter being in turn of Arabic or Turkic origin. In some cases words have entered the English language by multiple routes - occasionally ending up with different meanings, spellings, or pronunciations, just as with words with European etymologies.

  5. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Shah Abdul Qadir Raipuri was the first person who translated The Quran into Urdu. [85] During Shahjahan's time, the Capital was relocated to Delhi and named Shahjahanabad and the Bazar of the town was named Urdu e Muallah. [86] [87] In the Akbar era, the word Rekhta was used to describe Urdu for the first time. It was originally a Persian word ...

  6. Urdu Lughat - Wikipedia

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    It is the most comprehensive, detailed and thick dictionary in the history of Urdu language. [ citation needed ] It is published by the Urdu Lughat Board, Karachi. The dictionary was edited by the honorary director general of the board Maulvi Abdul Haq who had already been working on an Urdu dictionary since the establishment of the Urdu ...

  7. Yaqeen - Wikipedia

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    The first degree is referred to by the name ‘ilm-ul-yaqeen (the knowledge of certainty), which means that certainty is the result of knowledge. At this degree the object of certainty is knowledge just as the aim of knowledge is certainty.

  8. Jumada al-Awwal - Wikipedia

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    The Islamic calendar is a purely lunar calendar, and months begin when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. Since the Islamic lunar year is 11 to 12 days shorter than the tropical year, Jumada al-Awwal migrates backwards throughout the seasons in a cycle of about 33 solar years.

  9. 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 ...