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

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    from Hindi and Urdu: An acknowledged leader in a field, from the Mughal rulers of India like Akbar and Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj Mahal. Maharaja. from Hindi and Sanskrit: A great king. Mantra. from Hindi and Sanskrit: a word or phrase used in meditation. Masala. from Urdu, to refer to Indian flavoured spices.

  3. List of national capital city name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The most common view is that its eponym is Dhillu or Dilu, a king of the Mauryan dynasty, who built the city in 50 BCE and named it after himself. The Hindi/Prakrit word dhili ("loose") was used by the Tuar Rajputs to refer to the city because the Iron Pillar built by Raja Dhava had a weak foundation and was replaced. The coins in circulation ...

  4. Shri - Wikipedia

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    Shri is an epithet of the Hindu goddesses - Lakshmi. Shri is a polite form of address equivalent to the English "Mr." or "Ms.". [7] Shri is also frequently used as an epithet of some Hindu gods, in which case it is often translated into English as Holy.

  5. List of Hindi television channels - Wikipedia

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  6. 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 ...

  7. List of newspapers in India - Wikipedia

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    List of newspapers in India. As of 31 March 2018, there were over 100,000 publications registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India. [1] India has the second-largest newspaper market in the world, with daily newspapers reporting a combined circulation of over 240 million copies as of 2018. [2] [3] There are publications produced in ...

  8. Email address - Wikipedia

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    Email address. An email address identifies an email box to which messages are delivered. While early messaging systems used a variety of formats for addressing, today, email addresses follow a set of specific rules originally standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in the 1980s, and updated by RFC 5322 and 6854.

  9. Hindustani vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    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] However, in formal speech, Hindi tends to draw on ...