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A list of English words that have been borrowed from Hindi and Urdu, two registers of the Hindustani language. Many words have Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, or Turkic roots, and some entered English during the colonial period.
Urdu is a Persianised register of Hindustani, spoken mainly in South Asia. It is the national language of Pakistan and an official language in India, Nepal and South Africa. Learn about its etymology, origins, grammar, vocabulary and controversies.
Grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers. Learn about the etymology, history, and theoretical frameworks of grammar, as well as the differences between traditional and theoretical grammar.
Nomenclature is a system of names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences. Learn about the etymology, onomastics, and cultural aspects of nomenclature, as well as the formal systems of scientific nomenclature and classification.
Ashgabat derives from a folk etymology suggesting that the name is a dialect version of the Persian word of عشق (eshq meaning "love") and Persian آباد (ābād meaning "inhabited place" or "city", etymologically "abode"), and hence loosely translates as "the city of love" or "the city that love built".
An essay is a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument or opinion on a topic. Learn about the origin, evolution and classification of essays, from Montaigne to Locke, from formal to informal, from prose to film.
The word Estland/Eistland has been linked to Old Norse eist, austr meaning "the east". [ 200 ] The Estonian endonym Eesti was first attested in writing as Estimah in 1638, as a combination of the name Est- and the word -mah ("land"), which is still used as an alternative name Eestimaa in modern Standard Estonian.
The word "Mawla" is regarded as a considerable word in the Ghadir Khumm event (regarding the sentence which was declared by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam about Ali, when he said: "For whoever I am his mawla, 'Ali is his mawla.").