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  2. Laziness - Wikipedia

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    It is often used as a pejorative; terms for a person seen to be lazy include "couch potato", "slacker", and "bludger". Related concepts include sloth , a Christian sin, abulia , a medical term for reduced motivation, and lethargy , a state of lacking energy.

  3. Kauśīdya - Wikipedia

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    A workaholic is clearly not lazy, but such a person is seen as lelo in the sense of being completely lethargic and slothful with regard to the cultivation of virtue and purification of the mind. Our translation of this term is ‘spiritual sloth,’ which we have taken from the Christian tradition, where it is very comparable to the Buddhist ...

  4. Almaany - Wikipedia

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    Mahmoud Altarabin, assistant professor of translation and linguistics at Islamic University of Gaza, notes that while the machine translation of online translation platforms such as Almaany, Reverso Context, and Google Translate may be used to render translations of single phrases or words, those results should be edited to ensure that they ...

  5. Aurat (word) - Wikipedia

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    According to Rajaa Moini the word 'azad' holds a unique significance in the Urdu language, which inspires reverence, pride, but in the context of women, downright hostility and revulsion.In Pakistan while an azad mulk, a free country, can be cause of celebration and revelry, where as an azad aurat, or a free woman, is faces accusations of ...

  6. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  7. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    to be lazy, "I've been dossing all day", also can mean to truant, "dossing off" (similar to bunking off). Additionally it can informally take the form of a noun (i.e. "that lesson was a doss", meaning that lesson was easy, or good (primarily central Scotland).

  8. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Urdu (/ ˈ ʊər d uː /; اُردُو, pronounced ⓘ, ALA-LC: Urdū) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.It is the sole national language of Pakistan, the mother tongue of a small minority, but the preferred literary language of a numerically dominant population. [11]

  9. WordNet - Wikipedia

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    WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. It can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a dictionary and thesaurus.