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Language that gave us "cummerbund"
Answer for the clue "Language that gave us "cummerbund" ", 4 letters:
urdu
Alternative clues for the word urdu
- Indic language written in Persian script
- Language of Karachi
- Language heard in Karachi
- Language from which "loot" comes
- One of the official languages of Pakistan
- It's akin to Hindi
- Language that's written from right to left
- Language from which the word "dungaree" is borrowed
- Language written with Persian-Arabic letters
Word definitions for urdu in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
official language of Pakistan, 1796, from Hindustani urdu "camp," from Turkish ordu (source of horde ); short for zaban-i-urdu "language of the camp." Compare Dzongkha , a variant of Tibetan and the official language of Bhutan, literally "the language of ...
Usage examples of urdu.
The short wave foreign service broadcast in Arabic, Azeri Turkish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian, Russian, Spanish, and Urdu.
Martin spoke neither Urdu nor the Baluchi dialect, and the man from Karachi spoke only a smattering of Pashto, with sign language and some Arabic from the Koran they got along well.
Urdu, least of all in the Baluchi accent, but he knew he was being talked about.
The puns were in Urdu and Ebo, Japanese and Javanese, English and Ethiopian.
Burmese and Gujrati have been completed and the latter is even printed and circulated the Guardian feels we should concentrate upon the Hindi and Urdu translations.
Their language today was basically a corruption of English, although it included much of the noncommon languages of the early settlers, including Hindi, Urdu, Ibo, Arabic, Amharic, Bantu, and Flemish, to name some of them.