Definition of Urdu

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Urdu
n. official Pakistani language which is written in Arabic letters and spoken by over 100 million people worldwide (mostly Muslims in Pakistan, but also in India and Bangladesh)

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Urdu Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Urdu
(n.)
The language more generally called Hindustanee.
  

WordNet 2.0
Urdu

Noun
1. the official literary language of Pakistan, closely related to Hindi; widely used in India (mostly by Moslems); written in Arabic script
(hypernym) Sanskrit, Sanskritic language

Adjective
1. relating to the Urdu language; "Urdu poetry"
(pertainym) Urdu

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urdu
\ur"du\ (?), n. [hind. urdū.] the language more generally called hindustanee.
urdu
adj : relating to the urdu language; "urdu poetry" [syn: urdu]
n : the official literary language of pakistan, closely related to hindi; widely used in india (mostly by moslems); written in arabic script [syn: urdu]





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URDU
Urdu is a language spoken in Pakistan, India and Mauritius.
Urdu is a variety of the Hindustani language, from which it differs in its extensive borrowing of words from Arabic and Persian.
The language is: Urdu


Urdu Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Urdu
Urdu (, , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to Indo-European family of languages. It developed under Persian and to a lesser degree Arabic and Turkic influence on  apabhramshas during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire (1526–1858 AD).
	
Urdu is a standardised register of Hindustani termed khaṛībolī, that emerged as a standard dialect. The grammatical description in this article concerns this standard . In general, the term "" can encompass dialects of Hindustani other than the standardised versions.

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