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Oordoo

Oordoo is the obsolete form of Urdu.

Meaning of Urdu

Proper noun

Urdu

  1. Modern Standard Urdu, an Indo-Aryan language with native speakers mainly in Pakistan and North India. It is a standardized and Persianized version of Hindustani.
    • ‘Urdu was born in the barracks a few hundred years ago, and was spoken by soldiers. It gets its grammar from Hindi, and vocabulary from Persian.’2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 78

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Questions about Oordoo

What is Oordoo the obsolete form of?
Oordoo is the obsolete form of Urdu.

Words near Oordoo in the dictionary

  1. oorah
  2. oorali
  3. oorari
  4. oord
  5. oordh
  6. Oordoo
  7. oorhodein
  8. oorial
  9. oorials
  10. oorie
  11. Ooriya

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Oordoo (page history and authors); Urdu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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