As for adjectives and nouns, Urdu favours the ones borrowed from Arabic and Persian while Hindi has a penchant for the ones with Prakrit and Sanskrit roots, though nouns and adjectives borrowed ...

In ‘Love, Longing, Loss in Urdu Poetry’, Sanjiv Saraf puts together a collection, in the original and in translation, that’s both comprehensive and imaginative.

"And even those were college or school-going children who want their study books." Urdu, sharing Hindi's roots and mingled with words from Persian and Arabic, emerged as a hybrid speech between ...

A typical 'Musalmani' Bengali book (a five-page folio) was likely to have 31.74 percent of the words from Perso-Arabic descent, compared to 40 percent Persian words in an Urdu ghazal, according to ...