Urdu

See also: urdu, urdú, urðu, and úrdú

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani (see Urdu اُرْدُو (urdū) and Hindi उर्दू (urdū)), from Classical Persian اُرْدُو (urdū), from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“army, camp”) ( > Azerbaijani ordu, Turkish ordu, Turkmen oorda). Doublet of horde.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʊəˌduː/, /ˈɜːˌduː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈʊəɹduː/

• Audio (US):

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Proper noun

Urdu

Term Hindustani and Urdu were synonymous during first decade of the 20th century

1. Modern Standard Urdu, an Indo-Aryan language with native speakers mainly in Pakistan and North India. It is a standardized and Persianized version of Hindustani.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) Moors, (historical) Hindustani, Rekhta, Hindvi, Dehlavi, Lahori, Lashkari, Hindi

   • 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 78:

     ‘Urdu was born in the barracks a few hundred years ago, and was spoken by soldiers. It gets its grammar from Hindi, and vocabulary from Persian.’

Translations

the Indo-Iranian language

• Arabic: أُرْدِيَّة (ar) f (ʔurdiyya), أُرْدُو m (ʔurdū)
• Armenian: ուրդու (hy) (urdu)
• Basque: urdu (eu)
• Belarusian: у́рду f (úrdu)
• Bengali: উর্দু (bn) (urdu)
• Bulgarian: у́рду m (úrdu)
• Catalan: urdú (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏爾都語／乌尔都语 (zh) (wū'ěrdūyǔ)

• Czech: urdština f, urdsky (cs)
• Danish: urdu (da) c
• Dhivehi: އުރުދޫ (dv) (urudū)
• Dutch: Urdu (nl) n
• Esperanto: urduo
• Finnish: urdu (fi)
• French: ourdou (fr) m
• Galician: urdú (gl) m
• Georgian: ურდუ (urdu)
• German: Urdu (de) n
• Greek: Ούρντου (Oúrntou)
• Greenlandic: urdutut
• Gujarati: ઉર્દૂ (gu) (urdū)
• Hindi: उर्दू (hi) f (urdū)
• Icelandic: úrdú (is) n
• Japanese: ウルドゥー語 (ja) (ウルドゥーご, urudū-go)
• Kannada: ಉರ್ದೂ (urdū)
• Kashmiri: اُردُو (urduv)
• Korean: 우르두어 (ureudueo)
• Malay: bahasa Urdu, Urdu
• Marathi: उर्दू f (urdū)
• Navajo: Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí bizaad
• Nepali: उर्दु (ne) (urdu), उर्दू (ne) (urdū)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: urdu (no) m

  Nynorsk: urdu m

• Ottoman Turkish: اردو (ordu)
• Persian: اُرْدو (fa) (ordu)
• Polish: urdu (pl) n
• Portuguese: urdu (pt) m
• Russian: у́рду (ru) m (úrdu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̏рду m

  Roman: ȕrdu (sh) m

• Sinhalese: උර්දු (urdu), උර්දු භාෂාව (urdu bhāṣāwa)
• Spanish: urdu (es) m
• Swahili: Kiurdu
• Swedish: urdu (sv)
• Telugu: ఉర్దూ (te) (urdū)
• Thai: ภาษาอูรดู (paa-săa uu-rá-duu)
• Tigrinya: ኡርዱኛ (ʾurduña)
• Turkish: Urduca (tr)
• Ukrainian: у́рду (uk) f (úrdu)
• Urdu: اُرْدُو (ur) f (urdū)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Urdu
• Volapük: lurduv
• Welsh: Wrdw f

Adjective

Urdu (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Urdu language.

Synonyms

• Lashkari

Translations

relative to the Urdu language

• Catalan: urdú (ca) m or f
• French: ourdou (fr) m, ourdoue (fr) f
• Gujarati: ઉર્દૂ (gu) (urdū)
• Hindi: उर्दू (hi) (urdū), उर्दु (hi) (urdu), उरदू (hi) f (urdū)
• Malay: Urdu
• Persian: اردو (fa) (ordu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̏рду m

  Roman: ȕrdu (sh) m

• Urdu: اردو (ur) (urdū)

Derived terms

• Urduwood

See also

• Hindi
• Hindustani, Hindi-Urdu
• Category:Urdu language
• Urdu poetry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code ur, ISO 639-3 code urd (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Urdu, urd ⁠
• Urdu Dictionary

Anagrams

• Duru

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Classical Persian اُرْدُو (urdū), from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“army, camp”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈurdu/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Ur‧du

Proper noun

Urdu n

1. Urdu (language)

Anagrams

• duur, Ruud

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

Urdu n

1. Urdu (language)

Malay

Etymology

From Classical Persian اُرْدُو (urdū), from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“army, camp”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [u(r)du]
• Rhymes: -du, -u

Proper noun

Urdu

1. Urdu (language)