ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain said on Wednesday that digitalisation of Urdu dictionary shall preserve a thousand-year-old culture and tradition of the land. He made these remarks at the launch ...

KARACHI: The Urdu Dictionary Board has merged its 22 volume Urdu dictionary into two volumes to make an abridged dictionary. The new book also includes many new words and has added vernacular ...

A SIDE from some Persian-Urdu and Urdu-Persian dictionaries, the early Urdu lexicography was almost an exclusive domain of Europeans. The earliest Urdu dictionary is said to have been compiled in 1630 ...

DUNCAN Forbes (1798-1868) was a Scottish scholar of oriental languages and literature. Though Forbes penned a number of works on Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Bengali, his better known books are ...

NEW DELHI: Aspiring English poets have multiple online resources telling them how to write a sonnet, haiku or limerick but those aspiring to pen Urdu verse have just the Qaafiya Dictionary to help ...

Mumbai: If you are born in India, and that means any part of India, Urdu is the language that you must have come across in its purest or hybrid form. The language is even liked by the Oxford English ...