Meaning of the word urdu in English
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urdu
US /ˈʊr.duː/
UK /ˈʊə.duː/
Noun
an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in Pakistan and India, closely related to Hindi but written in the Perso-Arabic script and with many loanwords from Persian and Arabic.
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She is fluent in both Hindi and Urdu.
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Many classical poems are written in Urdu.