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  2. Yandex Translate - Wikipedia

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    Yandex Translate ( Russian: Яндекс Переводчик) is a web service provided by Yandex, intended for the translation of web pages into another language. The service uses a self-learning statistical machine translation, [3] developed by Yandex. [4] The system constructs the dictionary of single-word translations based on the analysis ...

  3. Kathoey - Wikipedia

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    Kathoey or katoey ( Khmer: ខ្ទើយ; khtəəy, Lao: ກະເທີຍ; ka thœ̄i, Thai: กะเทย; RTGS : kathoei; Thai pronunciation: [kàtʰɤːj]) is an identity used by some people in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, whose identities in English may be best described as transgender women in some cases, or effeminate gay men in ...

  4. Puja (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

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    Puja ( Sanskrit: पूजा, romanized : pūjā) is a worship ritual performed by Hindus to offer devotional homage and prayer to one or more deities, to host and honour a guest, or to spiritually celebrate an event. [1] [2] It may honour or celebrate the presence of special guests, or their memories after they die. The word pūjā is ...

  5. Fiji Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Fiji Hindi is also understood and even spoken by Indigenous Fijians in areas of Fiji where there are large Indo-Fijian communities. A pidgin form of the language is used by rural ethnic Fijians, as well as Chinese on the islands, while Pidgin Fijian is spoken by Indo-Fijians.

  6. Sat Sri Akaal - Wikipedia

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    Meaning. Sat is a Punjabi word, which means truth, from the Sanskrit word Satya (सत्य). Sri is a honorific used across various Indian Subcontinent languages. Akaal is made up of the Sanskrit word Kal, meaning time, and the prefix a-which is used in various Indian languages as a way to make a word into its antonym, so Akal means timeless.

  7. Aryan - Wikipedia

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    Aryan or Arya ( / ˈɛəriən /; [1] Indo-Iranian *arya) is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' ( *an-arya ). [2] [3] In Ancient India, the term ā́rya was used by the Indo-Aryan speakers of the Vedic period as an endonym (self ...

  8. Amen - Wikipedia

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    ʾĀmīn ( Arabic: آمين) is the Arabic form of Amen. In Islam, it is used with the same meaning as in Judaism and Christianity; when concluding a prayer, especially after a supplication ( du'a) or reciting the first surah Al Fatiha of the Qur'an, as in prayer ( salat ), and as an assent to the prayers of others. [37] [38]

  9. Desi - Wikipedia

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    Desi ( देसी / دیسی desī) is a Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) word, meaning 'national', ultimately from Sanskrit deśīya, derived from deśa ( देश) 'region, province, country'. [2] The first known usage of the Sanskrit word is found in the Natya Shastra (~200 BCE), where it defines the regional varieties of folk performing arts, as ...