There are also a smaller number of borrowings from Chagatai, Portuguese, and more recently English. Many of the words of Arabic origin have been adopted through Persian and have different pronunciations and nuances of meaning and usage than they do in Arabic....
The name Aryan is derived from the Sanskrit (ārya) meaning "noble and educated". In the Anglosphere, the name has negative connotations to many due to the Nazi racial theories about the superiority of the so-called Aryan race and modern usage of the term by white supremacist organization ...
Rahul is a popular male name in India and has a variety of meanings. The earliest meaning found in the Upanishads is "conqueror of all miseries." Later use of the word is attributed to the Buddha, who named his son Rahula as he felt that family ties could be an obstacle in the path...
InIndia, most educational institutions have a Christmas vacation, beginning shortly before Christmas and ending a few days after New Year‘s Day. Christmas is known asbada din(the big day) inHindi, and revolves around Santa Claus and shopping. Christmas is an official holiday in almost all st...
less costs and the publisher's commission. Unaware thatSense and Sensibilitywould sell out its edition, making her £140,[33] she passed the copyright to Egerton for a one-off payment, meaning that all the risk (and all the profits) would be his. Jan Fergus has calculated that Egerton ...
Dacoity is a term used for "banditry" in the Indian subcontinent. The spelling is the anglicised version of the Hindi word डाकू (daaku); "dacoit" is a colloquial Indian English word with this meaning and it appears in the Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases (...
Montage can involve flashbacks, parallel action, or the interplay of various visual elements to enhance the storytelling or create symbolic meaning. [22] The concept of montage emerged in the 1920s, with pioneering Soviet filmmakers such as Sergei Eisenstein and Lev Kuleshov developing the theory ...
Another common meaning is a generalization for martial arts movies from Asia or Hong Kong in particular, without necessarily having the negative connotation. Variety magazine, the originator of the term, defined "chopsocky" simply as a martial arts film with no negative connotations. [3] ...
[39] The name is derived ultimately from Sindhu, the Sanskrit name of the river Indus, but also meaning "river" generically. [40] History Main articles: History of India and Greater India Priest-King, Indus Valley civilisation The Mauryan Empire at its peak during the reign of Ashoka ...
Thus "translingual" may mean "existing in multiple languages" or "having the same meaning in many languages"; and sometimes "containing words of multiple languages" or "operating between different languages". Translingualism is the phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language; a ...