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Hi light

The Urdu language is one of the most delicate and d sophisticated hi i d languages l in i the h world. It is a very subtle language and many of the words in the language are used to show respect and politeness. Did you know that the word Urdu actually comes from Turkish? It comes from Ordu, which means army! Urdu was actually the language of the camp when Nader Shah of Persia (now Iran) invaded India. Nader Shah set up his camp in what is now Pakistan, and from there the Urdu language was born! This week we look at some of the Urdu words that have been adopted into the English language and also words from other languages that we have adopted into Urdu.

Almaari

The word ‘almaari’ actually comes from the Portuguese word ‘armario’! It means a chest of drawers.

Angrez

Did you know that this word was borrowed from the Portuguese? They used ‘Ingles’ to describe people from England and it was soon imported into Urdu to become the word ‘angrez’.

Pyjamas This is an English word that was borrowed from the Urdu language. The Urdu word ‘paijaam ‘paijaamaa’ was actually borrow borrowed from Persian!

Baalti

Arzoo

The word ‘arzoo’ means desire and it is a Persian word.

A ‘baalti’ is what we call a bucket in Urdu but did you know that it was originally a Portuguese word?

A ‘balde’ is a bucket in Portuguese.

Aya

In Urdu, an ‘aya’ is a nanny for young children. It comess from the Portuguese word ‘aia’.

This is another word we took from Portuguese.

‘Istari’ is derived from the Portuguese word ‘estirar’. meaning stainless iron.

Pineapple In Urdu we call it ananaas, but the word has been borrowed from the Portuguese.

The Pineapple is found in South and Central America and when the Portuguese came to India, they brought it with them.

Tamgha A ‘tamgha’ is an Urdu word for medal. It is actually a Turkish word.

Toliya Did you know that the word ‘toliya’, meaning towel, is actually a Portuguese word?

Baji Did you know that the word ‘baji’ is actually a Turkish word?

Bandhana Do you know what a bandanna is? It is a piece of cloth which you tie around your head or neck. This English word comes from the Urdu word ‘bandhna’, which means to tie something.

Beyzar This word means dejected and it comes from Persian.

Begum ‘Begum’ is another Urdu word that was borrowed from Bangla B Turkish. It also means lady or The English word Bungalow Bangri T actually comes from our a The English word bangle comes wife in Turkish.

Urdu word, ‘bangla’. It means from the Urdu word ‘bangri’, a U a house in the Bengal style. type of local bracelet.

Istari

Papeeta Did you know that the ‘papeeta’, the Urdu word for Papaya, is of Caribbean origin from where it found its way into Portuguese and then into Urdu?

Badan The word ‘badan’ was actually taken from Persian.

Jaib A ‘jaib’ is what we call a pocket in Urdu but it is originally an Arabic word.

Jahil The word ‘jahil’ means illiterate and it is also an Arabic word.

Jungle The English word jungle actually comes from the Urdu word ‘jangal’!

Gymkhana In Urdu, a gymkhanna is a place where sporting events take place. In English-speaking countries, a gymkhana is a sports event featuring horses.

Haal ‘Haal’ is an Urdu word for the present. It comes from Arabic.

Khaki Khaki is a colour. You’ve probably seen army uniforms which use that colour. This English world also comes from Urdu.

Khaber ‘Khaber’ means news in Urdu but it is originally an Arabic word.

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Cheetah The English word Cheetah actually comes from the Urdu word ‘cita’, which means multicoloured!

Chaabi A ‘chaabi’ is what we call a key in Urdu but did you know it comes from the Portuguese word ‘chave’.

Chatni When the British came to India, they liked ‘chatni’ so much that they added it to the English language as chutney!

Chi You know how you add the word ‘chi’ to other words to add quality? Like, ‘bawarchi’ (cook), ‘mochi’ (cobbler), ‘toapchi’ (cannon bearer) and ‘lalchi’ (selfish).

Well, the word ‘chi’ actually comes from Turkish!

Champo Did you know that the English word, shampoo comes from the Urdu/Hindustani word ‘champo’? This word dates back to 1762!

Dakait The English word dacoit actually comes from the Urdu word ‘dakait’!

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Do you like ‘santra’? Well, you can thank the Portuguese for bringing it to the subcontinent! The fruit’s Urdu name comes from its original Portuguese name, Cintra!

Chit Did you know that the English word chit actually comes from the Urdu word ‘chitthi’, which means a letter or note?

Sharbat The English word Sorbet, comes from the Urdu word ‘sharbat’, meaning juice.

Loot This English word was borrowed from the Urdu word ‘loot’. In English, it means stolen goods, the Urdu word means ‘steal’.

Typhoon Did you know that the Urdu word ‘toofan’ inspired the English word typhoon?

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Everyb Everybody knows what a ‘qanchi’ is but did di you know that w we borrowed the wo word from Turkish?

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Faaltoo This fun word actually comes from the Portuguese word ‘faltu’.

Fikr ‘Fikr’ means thought and it is originally an Arabic word.

Sal The English word shawl also comes from the Urdu word ‘sal’. It is said the word ‘sal’ comes from shaliat, the name of a town in India.

Khut

The English word cot comes from the Urdu word ‘khut’, which means a portable bed.

Khopra We call dried coconut, ‘khopra’.

The English borrowed this word and now write it as copra.

Kamarband The English word cummerbund was borrowed from the Urdu word ‘kamarband’, It is a cloth that you tie around your waist.

Curry Do you like curry? The English word was borrowed from Urdu but did you know who we borrowed it from? It comes from Tamil!

Madad ‘Madad’ means help and it was originally a Turkish word.

Mard This is another Turkish word that we have borrowed.

Medaan Medaan means ground.

This word was originally a Persian word.

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Santa Hat Ornament Instructions:

•Red Felt •Ribbon •Cotton Balls or Fiber Fill •Craft Glue •Scissors

Cut a triangle shape out of red felt. Make the top point flat and the bottom edge rounded. Cut a 12-inch piece of ribbon, tie it into a circle, and glue it to the top of the triangle shape.

Roll the felt triangle into a cone and glue the 2 edges together. Make sure the ribbon sticks out the top of the cone! Fluff out the cotton balls and glue them around the brim of the hat. Glue one cotton ball on the top point of the hat. Again, make sure the ribbon still sticks out.

You now have a completed Santa Hat Ornament!

Remember kids, always get permission from your parents before you start.

It’s always a good idea to have a helper nearby.

Make a Plate-o-Saurus!

ToffeeTV.com’s Ayesha Mehmood teaches you how to create your own personal dinosaur character out of a paper plate!

Take a trip back in time and bring the most ferocious dinosaurs to life! These cute-looking dinosaurs are easy to make and look great!

Supplies needed:

How to make it:

• 1 Paper Plate • Pencil • Paint • Phenix pins • Scissor • A single hole punching machine

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1. Cut the plate in half. The top half of the plate will serve as the body of the Plate-o-Saurus, while it’s body parts will be drawn on the bottom half of the plate.

2. Draw the tail, legs, neck and face with a pencil in half the plate as shown. Be sure and mark the different parts so you don’t get confused later.

3. Paint both halves of the plate. We used green but you can use any colour you like!

4. Once the paint has dried, use the scissor to cut out the different parts of the Plate-o-Saurus’s body.

5. Figure out where you want to attach the tail, legs, neck and face on the top half of the plate. Use the hole punching machine on both, the body part as well as the top half of the plate.

6. Insert the Phenix pins through each of the parts and fasten them into the body. You’ll see that once the pins are used to make the attachments, the ligaments will be securely fastened, but still able to swing – just like a real dinosaur!

7. You’re all done! Congratulations! Enjoy your Plate-o-Saurus!

Remember – always use the scissors or cutters with an adult. And always do your arts and crafts activities when there is an adult around to help you if you need it!

Want to watch other fun activities like this? Log onto toffeetv.com!

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World wide weird Get your weekly dose of the unusual and funny from across the globe!

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Two-way ticket to the moon

Wheelie clean

If you are a multibillionaire then you are eligible for this once in a lifetime trip to the moon.

A private venture launched by former NASA executives plans to send people to the Moon by 2020, costing $1.5 (Rs145.8 billion) billion for two.

The company, called Golden Spike claims to have generated “real interest” in space agencies in both Asian and European countries.

“We’re selling to nations, corporations and individuals. Get in line — and I think it’s going to be a long one,” said the company’s President and CEO Alan Stern, a former director of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

The missions are being targeted at countries without their own space agencies or that can’t afford to launch people to the Moon independently, as well as scientific organisations and even private individuals looking to take the trip of a lifetime.

The company has not yet chosen a launch vehicle or space capsule to transport their passengers; Stern expects to make the final selections in 2014. Golden Spike will likely use existing or already-under-development rockets and spacecraft. However, the company will need to commission its own lunar lander and specially designed spacesuits.

Each Golden Spike moon expedition will involve four separate launches: two launches to get the lunar lander into orbit, and two more launches to transport crew and cargo. Golden Spike’s leaders hope to fly regular missions throughout the 2020s SOURCE: HUFFINGTONPOST.CO.UK

This might just be the environmental solution we were looking for. But more than that it is the fun solution we have longed for. A Chinese hospital has come up with a new take on the idea of the wheelie bin by fitting cleaners hired to empty bins with roller skates to speed up the rubbish collection.

Park Fang who is manager at the Huaxi Hospital in Chengdu, in Sichuan province in south-west China said that they had been forced to cut the number of cleaners because of cost and also because the hospital was so large the staff that remained had been too slow to empty rubbish bins.

So they hired new cleaners with the one qualification being that they could roller skate to a high standard and say that since then they haven’t looked back. The new roller skater cleaners get paid 15% more than the old cleaners.

He said: “There were always too many cleaners here anyway marching backwards and forwards with rubbish and this way everything is done much faster with less staff. It’s also fun to give people something to look at and nobody has to wait very long at all now for a bin to be emptied.”

Lian Chen, one of the cleaners, said: “It is definitely the coolest job I have ever had. I get paid to roller skate eight hours a day and I love roller skating. The hospital is a great place to practice with lots of interesting things happening all the time.” SOURCE: WEB.ORANGE.CO.UK

Something new for Singapore’s pampered pets: obituaries Grieving pet owners in Singapore, known for lavishing care on their animals, can soon share their love for their furry friends - via obituaries in the citystate’s largest newspaper.

The Straits Times pets section will let pet owners publish goodbye messages to their favorite non-human companions along with an accompanying photo.

The memorials will be part of a “pets’ corner” in the paper’s classifieds section, along with notices by the SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) and other animal groups about pets available for adoption.

Though dogs and cats once roamed free around neighborhoods in Singapore, pet owners today are extremely protective of their pets. In addition, the 80 per cent of the population that lives in government-run flats is restricted to just one dog, of a small breed.

Research firm Euromonitor, in a recent report on Singapore’s pet care market, said people are spending more on premium pet food as well as accessories such as strollers for dogs and designer pet clothing.

Needless to say, the obituaries too are not free - they will each run S$50 (Rs3,983), with a goods and services tax of 7 per cent on top of that. SOURCE: REUTERS

Eau de pizza perfume Pizza Hut has long been an innovator in the pizza industry: The chain gave the world stuffed crust, after all. But now Pizza Hut is channeling its creative streak into other ventures, releasing its own Pizza Hut perfume.

Pizza Hut Canada has designed a limited edition perfume that has been shipped out to 100 people who won a bottle.

“Introducing Pizza Hut Perfume – a brand new fragrance from Pizza Hut Canada boasting top notes of freshly baked, hand-tossed dough,” reads the press release from Pizza Hut and Yum! Brands.

Appropriately enough, it began as a joke: Pizza Hut Canada’s marketing firm, Grip Limited, posted a tongue-in-cheek Facebook post on the Pizza Hut Canada fan page, asking, “Do you love the smell of a box of Pizza Hut pizza being opened?

We thought so. If that smell was a perfume, what would it be called?”

Thousands responded, some requesting a bottle of Pizza Hut perfume for themselves. And so it was.

“The limited edition perfume was designed to commemorate Pizza Hut Canada reaching 100,000 Facebook fans,” the release reads. “Only 110 bottles were produced and shared with lucky Facebook fans who won a bottle by being among the first to share their desire for Pizza Hut perfume.”

“Will we be seeing Pizza Hut perfume in department stores any time soon? Only time will tell,” it goes on.

The Pizza Hut perfume continues the US-based chain’s habit of saving its boldest creations for customers abroad: It launched a Hot Dog crust pizza in Europe earlier this year, and a cheeseburger crust pizza, called the “Crown Crust Burger Pizza,” in the Middle East soon after. In Japan, Pizza Hut offers a seafood-laden concoction called the Winter Double King Pizza, complete with crab and shrimp. SOURCE: CNBC.COM

Stylish primate gets retail therapy Bed made out of cardboard? Check. Soft cushion? Check. Pet monkey? Uh oh.

A tiny monkey in a stylish little coat ran across the parking lot of a Toronto IKEA store. The monkey’s owners, who were shopping in the store at the time, eventually came out to claim their pet, but not before the primate became an Internet sensation.

Just one of the monkey’s various Twitter accounts already has more than 1,700 followers.

The CBC’s Bronwyn Page was there to witness the monkey’s antics. “We saw a crowd of people surrounding a small animal, and we quickly realised it was a monkey wearing a coat and a diaper. That was pretty bizarre,” Page said in a radio interview.

He added: “It was running between people. They were trying to call it towards them. It was really scared. They were trying to get away from cars. We realised it didn’t belong to any of those people.”

Toronto police believe the monkey somehow managed to get free from his cage inside a car parked at the store. “Nobody got hurt,” Staff Sergeant Ed Dzingala said. “The monkey was a little scared, that’s all.” SOURCE: HUFFINGTONPOST.CO.UK

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s n i g i r O d r o W Blow hot and cold Do you have a friend who constantly changes their opinions? You might say he’s “blowing hot and cold.” Did you know that this expression comes from a story in classical mythology? There was once a traveller who was given food and shelter by a kind woodland king. According to the legend, the woodland king gave the traveller a room for the night and some hot soup. The man blew on his fingers to warm them and then, with the same breath, blew on the soup to cool it.

Irritated at the man’s apparent indecision, the king kicked him out and sent him back on his travels!

How to say 'Leave me alone!' in different languages!

Afrikaans Basque Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Chamorro Cherokee Croatian Dutch Esperanto Fijian French Galician German Indonesian Italian Japanese Latin Luxembourgish Malay Scots

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Laat my met rus!

Utzi pakean!

Pusti me na miru!

Ostavi me na mira!

Deixa’m en pau!

Sotta yo’! we na Pustite me na miru!

Laat me met rust!

Lasu min trankvile!

Biuti au tu madaga!

Laisse-moi tranquille!

Deixame en paz!

Lassen Sie mich!

Biarkan saya sendiri!

Vattene!

Hottoite!

Abi! Loss mech mat Rou! Jangan kacau saya!

Lae me aloyn!

Cool facts The person who invented the Frisbee was cremated and made into frisbees after he died!

During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.

Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

Heart attacks are more likely to happen on a Monday.

If you consistently fart for 6 years & 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb!

The top six foods that make your fart are beans, corn, bell peppers, cauliflower, cabbage and milk!

There is a species of spider called the Hobo Spider.

A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a fullsized oven.

A baby spider is called a spiderling.

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