My Arabic is slowly but surely improving. Am fascinated by the number of words in Arabic that mean the same thing in Urdu/Hindi. Was just looking up the Wikipedia and it says there that Arabic is a source of vocabulary for many languages, including Hindi/ Urdu. Take a look at the arabic words below and you could claim you know arabic too!
Kursi=chair
Sabun=soap
Isharit murur=traffic signal (Ishara in hindi means indication and that’s what a traffic signal does!)
Awwil=first
Akher=last
Subh=morning
Bass=enough
Baad=after
Masgid=mosque
Madrasa=school
Khidma=service/be of help
Sukkar=sugar
Shay=tea
Shay=tea
Will add onto the list as my Arabic improves!
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