A Door Into Urdu: Lesson 15

Hindi Lessons MenuContactHomeTSAC logo
Lesson Home

Dialog Script

Vocabulary

Grammar

Culture Notes

Exercises

Quiz

Supplemental Materials

Urdu Writing System


Urdu Dictionary

Digital Dictionaries

Other Resources

A Door Into Urdu
 
Lesson 15
Vocabulary

Character's Names:

رانی

(aunt, specifically father's brother's wife) چاچی

conversation

noun

بات چیت

to speak

verb

بولنا

free, empty

adj. (doesn't change)

خالی

I (as actor with perfect form of transitive verb = "ergative case")

pronoun + postposition

میں نے / میں نے

after

postposition

کے بعد

girlfriend (but only female friend of a female)

noun f.

سہیلی

samosa (a deep fried vegetable or meat dumpling)

noun m.

سموسہ

to make

verb (causative)

بنانا

thirty-five

number

پیںتیس

to learn

verb

سیکھنا

to teach

verb (causative)

سِکھانا

to study (intransitive), to read (transitive)

verb

پڑھنا

to teach

verb (causative)

پڑھانا

kitchen

noun f.

رسوئی

green pepper (the small, hot ones)

noun f.

ہری مِرچ

onion

noun f.

پیاز

green coriander, cilantro

noun m.

ہرا دھنِیا

ginger

noun f.

اَدرک

knife

noun

چاقو

to cut

verb

کاٹنا

Indian, South Asian (literally "country")

adj. (doesn't change)

دیسی

to cook (intransitive)

verb

پکنا

to cook (transitive)

verb (causative)

پکانا

this very one (oblique)

emphatic pronoun (oblique)

(اسہی=( اِس + ہی

For this very reason..., That's why...

phrase

اِسی لِیے

Here are...

phrase

یہ رہے

this much

comparative

اِتنا

heroine

noun f.

ہیروئین

to dance

verb

ڈانس کرنا

color

noun

رںگ

to take color, to dye

verb

رںگ لینا

scarf

noun

چنریا

beloved

noun m.

سجنا

سجنوا

your (folk dialect, =तेरा)

possessive (dialect)

تورا

My heart wants...

phrase

جِیا میرا چاہے

Hindu Holiday

noun f.

ہولی

to play Holi, to throw colored water and powders on each other

verb

ہولی کھیلنا

as, like

comparative

ایسے - جیسے

Radha, beloved of Krishna

Proper noun

رادھا

Epithet (nickname) of Krishna

Proper noun

کنہیّا

to throw

verb

پھیںکنا

without

postposition

کے بنا

without you

phrase

=بن تمہارے

(تمہارے بن (بنا

Sunday

noun

اِتوار

Monday

noun

سوموار

Tuesday

noun

منگل وار

Wednesday

noun

بدھ وار

Thursday

noun

برہسپتیوار

Friday

noun

شکروار

Saturday

noun

شنیوار