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Perso Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani

The presented dictionary constitutes the first part of the planned two-
volume work devoted to the question of Perso-Arabic loanwords in
Hindustani. The aim of this work was to gather and explain meaning of
linguistic units originating in Parisian or Arabic, which throughout the
centuries penetrated into the biggest common form of language of what is
today North India and Pakistan, namely Hindustani, creating a rich and
important stratumof its lexis. Based on existing dictionaries of the
Hindustani, Hindi and Urdu languages, covering, more or less a period of
200 years, this dictionary contains ca. 5500 entries, presenting words
of Perso-Arabic origin, current in Hindustani and found at the same time
in both Hindi and Urdu lexis.

• author: Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś