adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to the Urdu language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Urdu
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈʊəˌduː/
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UK: /ˈɜːˌduː/
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US: /ˈʊəɹduː/
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CMU ARPABET: ER0 D UW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Moors, Hindustani, Rekhta, Hindvi, Dehlavi, Lahori, Lashkari, Hindi
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the official literary language of Pakistan, closely related to Hindi; widely used in India (mostly by Moslems); written in Arabic script
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Sanskrit, Sanskritic language
History
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 and orda.
Across languages
Translations
79 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: أُرْدِيّ (ʔurdiyy) — relative to the Urdu language
- Catalan: urdú — relative to the Urdu language
- Czech: urdský — relative to the Urdu language
- French: ourdou — relative to the Urdu language
- French: ourdoue — relative to the Urdu language
- Gujarati: ઉર્દૂ (urdū) — relative to the Urdu language
- Hindi: उर्दू (urdū) — relative to the Urdu language
- Hindi: उर्दु (urdu) — relative to the Urdu language
- Hindi: उरदू (urdū) — relative to the Urdu language
- Malay: Urdu — relative to the Urdu language
- Marathi: उर्दू (urdū) — relative to the Urdu language
- Persian: اردو (ordu) — relative to the Urdu language
- Serbo-Croatian: у̏рду — relative to the Urdu language
- Serbo-Croatian: ȕrdu — relative to the Urdu language
- Slovak: urdský — relative to the Urdu language
- Slovene: urdujski — relative to the Urdu language
- Tamil: உருது (urutu) — relative to the Urdu language
- Urdu: اردو (urdū) — relative to the Urdu language
- Arabic: اَلْأُرْدِيَّة (al-ʔurdiyya) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Arabic: أُرْدُو (ʔurdū) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Armenian: ուրդու (urdu) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Basque: urdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Belarusian: у́рду (úrdu) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Bengali: উর্দু (urdu) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Bulgarian: у́рду (úrdu) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Catalan: urdú — the Indo-Iranian language
- Chinese Mandarin: 烏爾都語 /乌尔都语 (Wū'ěrdūyǔ) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Czech: urdština — the Indo-Iranian language
- Czech: urdsky — the Indo-Iranian language
- Danish: urdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Dhivehi: އުރުދޫ (urudū) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Dutch: Urdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Esperanto: urduo — the Indo-Iranian language
- Finnish: urdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- French: ourdou — the Indo-Iranian language
- Galician: urdú — the Indo-Iranian language
- Georgian: ურდუ (urdu) — the Indo-Iranian language
- German: Urdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Greek: Ούρντου (Oúrntou) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Greenlandic: urdutut — the Indo-Iranian language
- Gujarati: ઉર્દૂ (urdū) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Hindi: उर्दू (urdū) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Icelandic: úrdú — the Indo-Iranian language
- Japanese: ウルドゥー語 (urudū-go) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Kannada: ಉರ್ದೂ (urdū) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Kashmiri: اُردُو (urduv) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Korean: 우르두어 (ureudueo) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Malay: bahasa Urdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Malay: Urdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Marathi: उर्दू (urdū) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Nepali: उर्दु (urdu) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Nepali: उर्दू (urdū) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Norwegian Bokmål: urdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Norwegian Nynorsk: urdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Persian: اُرْدو (ordu) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Polish: urdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Portuguese: urdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Russian: у́рду (úrdu) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Serbo-Croatian: у̏рду — the Indo-Iranian language
- Serbo-Croatian: ȕrdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Sinhalese: උර්දු (urdu) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Sinhalese: උර්දු භාෂාව (urdu bhāṣāwa) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Slovak: urdčina — the Indo-Iranian language
- Slovene: urdujščina — the Indo-Iranian language
- Spanish: urdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Swahili: Kiurdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Swedish: urdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Tajik: урду (urdu) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Tamil: உருது (urutu) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Telugu: ఉర్దూ (urdū) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Thai: ภาษาอูรดู (paa-săa uu-rá-duu) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Tigrinya: ኡርዱኛ (ʾurduña) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Turkish: Urduca — the Indo-Iranian language
- Ottoman Turkish: اردو (ordu) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Ukrainian: у́рду (úrdu) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Urdu: اُرْدُو (urdū) — the Indo-Iranian language
- Vietnamese: tiếng Urdu — the Indo-Iranian language
- Volapük: lurduv — the Indo-Iranian language
- Welsh: Wrdw — the Indo-Iranian language