“Urdu is a mixture of Persian, Arabic and Turkish words formed with the intermingling of invading Muslim armies and local Hindi-speaking Hindus. It’s a Turkish word which means Army camp, hoard, etc.” ...

KARACHI: Urdu’s first online thesaurus was recently launched and in no time it has attracted the attention of many who are usually at a loss for words while communicating in the language they hold so ...

PICK up any Urdu textbook and the chances are that it will endorse the following myths (a) the term 'Urdu' means military camp. Our language is called 'Urdu' because it was created in the army camps ...