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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.
The word khimar or “veil” refers to a piece of cloth that was popularly used to cover the head in ancient Arabia. [ 68] While the term "hijab" was originally anything that was used to conceal, [ 69] it became used to refer to concealing garments worn by women outside the house, specifically the headscarf or khimar.
Dupatta. The dupattā, also called chunni, chunari, chundari, lugda, rao/rawo, gandhi, pothi and odhni is a long shawl -like scarf traditionally worn by women in the Indian subcontinent. [ 1] Traditionally, in India, the dupatta is part of the women's lehenga or ghagra/chaniya choli. A lehenga is a three-piece outfit which is made up of a skirt ...
Ghoonghat (also ghunghat or jhund) is the Hindi word used for a veil or a scarf that a woman in northern India wears to cover her head or face (in states such as Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Assam). Sometimes the end of a sari or dupatta (a long scarf) is pulled over the head or face to function as a ghoonghat.
The word's Maṣdar is "jalbeb" [جلْبَب], and there's a long vowel alif in the middle of the word to add emphasis to the meaning. Due to this emphasis from the vowel, the word then linguistically refers to a full-body cover, or a one-piece that covers the entire body and does not expose even a bit of it.
B. Bandana. from Sanskrit बन्धन bandhana, "a bond". Banyan. from Hindi baniyaa ultimately from Sanskrit वणिज् vaṇij, which means "a merchant". [ 9] Basmati. Type of long grain rice, highly valued for its smell and texture. Through Hindi बासमती ultimately from Sanskrit वास vāsa.
Satya is an important concept and virtue in Indian religions. Rigveda, dated to be from the 2nd millennium BCE, offers the earliest discussion of Satya. [ 1][ 2] It can be seen, for example, in the fifth and sixth lines, in this Rigveda manuscript image. Satya ( Sanskrit: सत्य; IAST: Satya) is a Sanskrit word translated as truth or ...
Wallah. Wallah, -walla, -wala, or -vala ( -wali fem.), is a suffix used in a number of Indo-Aryan languages, like Hindi/Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali or Marathi. It forms an adjectival compound from a noun or an agent noun from a verb. [1] For example; it may indicate a person involved in some kind of activity, where they come from or what they wear ...