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  2. Ishq - Wikipedia

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    Ishq ( Arabic: عشق, romanized : ʿishq) is an Arabic word meaning 'love' or 'passion', [1] also widely used in other languages of the Muslim world and the Indian subcontinent . 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 ...

  3. Roman Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Roman Urdu is the name used for the Urdu language written with the Latin script, also known as Roman script. According to the Urdu scholar Habib R. Sulemani: "Roman Urdu is strongly opposed by the traditional Arabic script lovers. Despite this opposition it is still used by most on the internet and computers due to limitations of most ...

  4. Hindi profanity - Wikipedia

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    Randi (रंडी; English: Prostitute, slut ), is a Hindi-language "gaali" (a profanity pronounced in a low voice in front of a select audience). It is a derogatory term for a woman who is considered to be a prostitute in the literal sense, but is usually applied as a term for women who are considered too promiscuous, flirtatious or who ...

  5. Pahari-Pothwari - Wikipedia

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    Pahari-Pothwari is an Indo-Aryan language variety of Lahnda group, spoken on the Pothohar Plateau in the far north of Punjab, Pakistan, as well as in most of Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir and in western areas of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, is known by a variety of names, the most common of which are Pahari (English: / p ə ˈ h ɑː r i /; an ambiguous name also applied to ...

  6. Vande Mataram - Wikipedia

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    Vande Mataram. Vande Mataram ( Vande Mātaram, also spelt Bande Mataram; Bônde Mātôrôm; transl. I praise you, Motherland) is a poem written in Sanskrit and Sanskritised Bengali [1] [2] by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s. [3] [4] The first two verses of the poem were adopted as the National Song of India in October 1937 by the Congress.

  7. Urdu-speaking people - Wikipedia

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    Many people of Pashtun origin are also diversely scattered and principally settled in the plains of northern and central India, known as the Pathans. [120] [121] [122] The majority of Indian Pathans are Urdu-speaking people, [123] who have assimilated into the local society over the course of generations. [123]

  8. OK - Wikipedia

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    OK. OK ( / ˌoʊˈkeɪ / ⓘ ), with spelling variations including okay, okeh, O.K., ok and Ok, as well as k in texting, is an English word (originating in American English) denoting approval, acceptance, agreement, assent, acknowledgment, or a sign of indifference. OK is frequently used as a loanword in other languages.

  9. List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

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    A. Ambarella. through Sinhala: ඇඹරැල්ලා æmbarællā ultimately from Sanskrit: अम्बरेल्ला, a kind of tree. [1] Aniline. through German: Anilin, French: Aniline and Portuguese: Anil from Arabic النيل al-nili and Persian نیلا nila, ultimately from Sanskrit नीली nili. [2] Aryan. from Sanskrit ...