श"द — word
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Date
2016
Authors
Snell, Rupert
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Hindi Urdu Flagship
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श"द, the regular Hindi word for ‘word’, is one of the first linguistic terms that a Hindi learner
encounters. Being a Sanskrit loan, श"द is little used in Urdu, which has instead the Arabicthrough-Persian
loan ظ"ف"""""""""ل lafẕ; this singular form comes complete with its own plural, formed on
the Arabic pattern by a repatterning of the triconsonantal root l-f-z as الفاظ alfāẕ, ‘words’.