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unusual facts about Urdu language



Fareedi

Famous Urdu crime fiction novelist Ibn-e-Safi created a character called Ahmad Kamal Faridi which became very popular in the second half of twentieth century among Urdu readership.

Farz

Farz (Persian: فرض ) is a word of Persian origin, also used in Urdu and Hindi, meaning one's duty.

Hindu

Persian Hindu (and hence in Urdu, and ultimately adopted into Hindustani in general) was used of the native, non-Muslim population ruled by the Muslim Mughal Empire.

Islamistan

The term is Persian, (also used in Pashto and Urdu) and refers to the concept of Dar-ul-Islam.

Leela Roy Ghosh

Leela Roy Ghosh (Hindi: लीला रॉय घोष Līlā Rŏya Ghōṣa, Bengali: লীলা রায় ঘোষ Līlā Rāẏa Ghōṣa, February 3, 1948 – May 11, 2012) was an Indian actress and voice-dubbing artist who spoke Hindi, Bengali, English, Marathi and Urdu.

North Indian cuisine

North Indian cuisine (Hindi: उत्तर भारतीय व्यंजन, Uttar Bharatiya Vyanjan, Urdu: شمالی بھارتی کھانا Shumali Bharti Khana), part of Indian cuisine, is a term used to refer to the cuisines found in Northern India which includes the Indian states: Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand (Kumaon) and West-Central Uttar Pradesh (Awadh and Braj).

Punctuation

Arabic, Urdu, and Persian languages—written from right to left—use a reversed question mark: ؟, and a reversed comma: ، .

Punjabi Qisse

It has influenced almost all the languages of South Asia and occurs as a regular common noun in north-western South Asian languages like Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi.

SAHAR TV

Sahar TV is the name of two Iranian TV channels that are part of Sahar Universal Network (SUN) which is the foreign broadcasting branch of Islamic Republic Of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) that is responsible for broadcasting the programs in different languages including English, French, Arabic, Urdu, Azeri, Kurdish and many other ones.

Superstition in Pakistan

People, especially children and young girls, wear Ta'wiz (Urdu: تعویز) (Amulet) to ward off evil eye.

Urdu 1

Urdu 1 (trademarked Urdu 1) or Urdu 1 Channel is an Urdu language, television network, owned by Alliance Media FZ-LLC Dubai.


see also

Asas

Daily Asas, an Urdu-language newspaper published by the Asas Group of Newspapers

Catholic Naqib

The Catholic Naqib is the oldest Urdu-language Catholic magazine, founded in Lahore, Pakistan in 1929 and published by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lahore.

Ifti Nasim

Having moved to the US to escape persecution for his sexual orientation, he became known locally for establishing Sangat, an organization to support LGBT south-Asian youths, and internationally for publishing Narman, a poetry collection that was the first open expression of homosexual themes in the Urdu language.

In the name of God

Khuda Kay Liye, an Urdu-language film, title translated as "In the name of God"

McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies

Urdu Language and Culture: established in April 1987 and funded by the Government of Pakistan, Department of Multiculturalism, Government of Canada, and McGill University.

Pyarge Aagbittaite

The song "Pyarge Aagbittaite" was written by Pawan in Kannada and Urdu language mixture recorded an amazing hit in YouTube by hitting more than 1500000 views in less than a week of its release.

Saeed Khan

Khan is also credited with introducing and co-translating (with Noshi Gilani) the great Australian poet Les Murray into the Urdu language.

Tahir Aslam Gora

He is also involved in the translation of the writings of Daniel Pipes and Samia Labidi into the Urdu language.