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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 The drink was originally made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices.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
The earliest reference to the word "lyre" is the Mycenaean Greek ru-ra-ta-e, meaning "lyrists" and written in the Linear B script. [5] In classical Greek, the word "lyre" could either refer specifically to an amateur instrument, which is a smaller version of the professional cithara and eastern-Aegean barbiton, or "lyre" can refer generally to all three instruments as a family. [6]
Lyra is a feminine given name of Greek and Latin origin meaning lyre. [1] It is usually given in reference to the constellation and the Greek myth that inspired its naming. [2] The name has associations with music and harmony and the night sky.
(Crossref Persian and Urdu Zenana for semantics.) 17th-century English entered English through Turkish, where the meaning was closer to what the English is. In Arabic today harīm means womenkind in general. [24] hashish حشيش hashīsh, hashish. Hashīsh [ħʃjʃ] (listen ⓘ)in Arabic has the literal meaning "dried herb" and "rough grass ...
Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [ 2 ]
Usage of dative noun + accusative noun [74] [69] Nouns in Hindi are put in the dative or accusative case first having the noun in the oblique case and then by adding the postposition ko after it. However, when two nouns are used in a sentence in which one of them is in the accusative case and the other in the dative case, the sentence becomes ...
A lyre is a stringed musical instrument. Lyre(s) may also refer to: Lyre (vine system), a vine training system; Lyre, County Cork, Ireland, a village; Lyre (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse; Lyre River, in Washington U.S. lyre snake, common name of the snake genus Trimorphodon; Lyres (band), an American alternative rock band; Lyra, a constellation
The "Golden Lyre of Ur" or "Bull's Lyre" is the finest lyre, and was given to the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. [10] Its reconstructed wooden body was damaged due to flooding during the Second Iraqi War; [11] [7] a replica of it is being played as part of a touring ensemble. [2] The "Golden Lyre" got its name because the whole head of the bull is ...