How to Use Urdu in a Sentence
Urdu
noun
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On the track, the former One Direction singer joins the trio on vocals in Urdu.
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Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
12 Jan. 2024
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Children called out to their parents over the sound of the waves in Arabic, Urdu, English and Russian.
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Vivian Nereim Andrea Dicenzo,
New York Times,
28 Aug. 2023
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They were filmed on busy streets or inside living rooms, and their narrators spoke in English, Urdu or other languages.
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Stuart A. Thompson,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2024
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The group also owned newspapers and magazines in the Urdu, Hindi and English languages.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 Nov. 2023
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The latest adaptation starring Aly will be in the original Urdu language.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2023
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In court Monday, Naveed Sarwar, speaking through an Urdu interpreter, made no such colorful comments.
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Emily Palmer,
Peoplemag,
11 Dec. 2023
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The initial burst of productions will be in the Hindustani (combining Hindi and Urdu) language that is understood across the subcontinent.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2023
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India is Hindustani music, Urdu poetry, Hindi poetry, Bengali and so many other languages, and this void is going to remain forever for all of us.
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Rolling Stone India,
Rolling Stone,
6 Feb. 2022
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The group’s meditative soundscapes, a series of exploratory journeys into inner space, showcase Ms. Aftab’s plaintive vocals in Urdu.
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Stephen Humphries,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Mar. 2023
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Its six pieces unfold as immersive meditations, with the artists drawing from wells of jazz, Urdu poetry, and spirituality.
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Pitchfork,
14 Dec. 2023
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The project, which merges folk, experimental music, and Hindu and Urdu poetry, is dense, mythological, and emotionally fraught.
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Vrinda Jagota,
SPIN,
11 Mar. 2024
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Other testimony from prosecutors’ witnesses included the driver who was the only other person in the car during the alleged attack and spoke through an Urdu interpreter.
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Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
14 Dec. 2023
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Five decades later, Ismaily has become one of music’s most in-demand collaborators, flitting like a mischievous butterfly through genres as diverse as honeyed folk, rambunctious free jazz and spectral meditations sung in Urdu.
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Grayson Haver Currin,
New York Times,
27 June 2023
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Although Urdu and Hindi are remarkably similar, their differences take on outsized religious and national significance.
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Phillip M. Carter,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2023
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