Talk:List of English words of Urdu origin

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Hi,

[1] The word "Rickshaw" is of Japanese origin [2] No doubt there may be many English words borrowed from Urdu, but there is need to ascribe some of the wrods given here to Persian rather than urdu, or mention that the English & Urdu words share a common root, mentioning the actual Persian word

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I don't really understand why this page exists. almost all of the words on it are ultimately from Persian, so why don't they just go on the English word of Persian origin page?

Kızılderili 23:06, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Put this page up for deletion?

As far as I can see, most of the words are of Persian origin (Urdu is a language heavily influenced by Persian). So whats the point of having an article with only a few words in it?Khosrow II 15:09, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There are a LOT of errors. Many of these words hail neither from Urdu nor Persian, but Sanskrit. This page needs to be fixed or deleted.

Merger Proposal

Since there is a large overlap between spoken Hindi and Urdu, should this article merge with List of English words of Hindi origin into a new article List of English words of Hindi and Urdu origin or maybe List of English words of Hindi/Urdu origin.

Obviously the written form of the English word differs from both the Hindi and Urdu originals, so the common spoken form makes this seem like a sensible merge. -- Q Chris (talk) 10:49, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]