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

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    Many of the Hindi and Urdu equivalents have originated from Sanskrit; see List of English words of Sanskrit origin. 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 ...

  3. David (name) - Wikipedia

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    David (Hebrew: דָּוִד, Modern: David, Tiberian: Dāwîḏ) means ' beloved ', derived from the root dôwd (דּוֹד), which originally meant ' to boil ', but survives in Biblical Hebrew only in the figurative usage ' to love '; specifically, it is a term for an uncle or figuratively, a lover/beloved (it is used in this way in the Song of Songs: אני לדודי ודודי לי, ' I am ...

  4. List of English words of Indian origin - Wikipedia

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    1 Hindi or Urdu. 2 Kannada. 3 Malayalam. 4 Sanskrit. 5 Tamil. 6 Telugu. ... This is a list of words in the English language that originated in the languages of India ...

  5. Hinglish - Wikipedia

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    A fair share of the words borrowed into English from Indian languages were themselves borrowed from Persian or Arabic. An example of this is the widely used English word 'pyjamas' which originates from Persian paejamah, literally "leg clothing," from pae "leg" (from PIE root *ped- "foot") + jamah "clothing, garment." [21]

  6. Khuda Hafiz - Wikipedia

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    Khoda, which is Persian for God, and hāfiz which is the Arabic word for "protector" or “guardian”. [5] The vernacular translation is, "Good-bye". The phrase is also used in the Azerbaijani, Sindhi, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and Punjabi languages. [5] [6] It also can be defined as "May God be your protector."

  7. Honorific titles of Indian figures - Wikipedia

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    "Supreme teacher" (Bengali) (Hindi). "Guru" = "teacher" and "dev" = "Respected person". Rabindranath Tagore: Guruji Madhavrao Sadashivrao Golwalkar: Hindi for 'respected teacher' M. S. Golwalkar: Karnataka Kulapurohita Aluru Venkata Rao: Translation - "High priest of the Kannada family" Aluru Venkata Rao: Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak [15]

  8. Babul (Hindi word) - Wikipedia

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    Babul (Hindi: बाबुल, Pronounced: bəˈbo͞ol) is an old Hindi term for father indicating a daughter's affection and used in Indian literature at the separations of fathers and daughters. The term is now mainly used in Bollywood songs in the context of a newly married daughter leaving her father's home.

  9. Ishq - Wikipedia

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    The word ishq does not appear in the central religious text of Islam, the Quran, which instead uses derivatives of the verbal root habba (حَبَّ), such as the noun hubb (حُبّ). The word is traditionally derived from the verbal root ʿašaq "to stick, to cleave to" and connected to the noun ʿašaqah, which denotes a kind of ivy. [2]