Re: Archaic/Seldom-used Urdu words
I know only itehaad it means history.Indian films ney itni hindi to sikhaa di hai 
Re: Archaic/Seldom-used Urdu words
Random urdu words "peiwasta" "Shajar"
Re: Archaic/Seldom-used Urdu words
lol.. you are almost there. itehaad is urdu meaning unity but itehaas means history.
are the name of the days in hindi same as in urdu?
Re: Archaic/Seldom-used Urdu words
**good thread bro...a chance to learn for all of us.
lemme interject here if i may. non for namak and khaanD for sugar are Hindi words and are still very much in use in rural India.
sanDaas is also a Hindi word for a specialized type of squat toilet. in old days...a very deep and wide hole was dug in the ground with a concrete squat type of seat was constructed on top of the hole. the seat is called qadamcha [footrest]**
Hindi and Urdu share basic vocabulary and differ only in literary words. There was no language called Hindi or Urdu some 500 years ago. To confuse things more, Urdu itself was called Hindi at sometime in history.
So these words belong as much to Urdu as the present-day Sanskritized Hindi.
That's my take on it.