“Urdu is a mixture of Persian, Arabic and Turkish words formed with the intermingling of invading Muslim armies and local Hindi-speaking Hindus. It’s a Turkish word which means Army camp, hoard, etc.” ...

KARACHI: Urdu’s first online thesaurus was recently launched and in no time it has attracted the attention of many who are usually at a loss for words while communicating in the language they hold so ...

Every time Dr Tariq Rahman writes about language he opens up new discussions and forces us to focus on the various languages we speak in Pakistan. Whether we like it or not, he is the only serious ...

Etymology is “the study of the origins and the history of the form and meaning of the words”, says David Crystal in his 'The Penguin Dictionary of Language'. Sometimes the history of a word is so ...

Terms like Mukadma (case), Mulzim (accused), Ilzam (allegation), and Chashmdeed (eyewitness) may soon be replaced with Hindi alternatives in Rajasthan's police vocabulary. The BJP-led state government ...

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan government has directed the state police department to remove all Urdu and Persian words in official documents and replace them with Hindi. In a letter to the Director General of ...