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Hajj ( / hɑːdʒ /; [1] Arabic: حَجّ, romanized : Ḥajj; also spelled Hadj, Haj or Haji) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, [2] the holiest city for Muslims. Hajj is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically and financially capable of undertaking the journey, and of ...
This is a list of English-language words of Hindi and Urdu origin, two distinguished registers of the Hindustani language. Many of the Hindi and Urdu equivalents have originated from Sanskrit; see List of English words of Sanskrit origin. Many others are of Persian origin; see List of English words of Persian origin. Some of the latter are in turn of Arabic or Turkic origin. In some cases ...
Pardah or purdah (from Hindi-Urdu پردہ, पर्दा, meaning "curtain") is a religious and social practice of gender partition prevalent among some Muslim and Hindu communities.
Hindi is the fourth most-spoken first language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish and English. [28] If counted together with the mutually intelligible Urdu, it is the third most-spoken language in the world, after Mandarin and English. [29] [30] According to reports of Ethnologue (2022, 25th edition) Hindi is the third most-spoken language in the world including first and second language ...
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [11] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [11] The input text had to be translated into English first ...
The Urdu Wikipedia ( Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا ), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu -language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. [1] [2] As of 11 July 2024, it has 207,820 articles, 181,825 registered users and 12,671 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 20th in terms of depth among Wikipedias with over ...
Taqiyya is a practice in Islam that allows Muslims to conceal their faith in times of persecution or danger.
The Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo sought to publish a historical dictionary of Arabic in the vein of the Oxford English Dictionary, tracing the changes of meanings and uses of Arabic words over time.