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Urdu

Ur·du [ r d, úr d ]


noun 
Definition:
 
official language of Pakistan: the Indic official language of Pakistan, spoken also in Bangladesh and India. It belongs to the Indic group of Indo-European languages and shares basic grammar and vocabulary with Hindi. Native speakers: 40 million.

[Late 18th century. Via Persian and Urdu (zabān i) urdū "(language of the) camp" < Turkish ordū "camp"]

Ur·du adjective

See Persian.

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