need help with some Urdu words

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Re: need help with some Urdu words

@muqawwee123

I think with passage of time, colors took their names from fruits. Like Orange from the fruit orangae. In Sindhi, both fruit and color orange are called ‘Narangi’ in Urud color is ‘Naranji’, but fruit is Kinnu.

Same goes with coolors you asked. ‘Purple’ is jamni as it got same color as fruit ‘Jaman’. Same goes true for ‘Violet’ as ‘Banafshi’ flower got same color.

Pink is Gulabi, may be we got pink roses / gulab in our part of world and also known as ‘Piyazi’ as onion outer is pink.

Brown is ‘badami’ as it matches almond color.

@Sahdia77

Thank you for the detailed explanation, muqawwee123, I’m starting to understand some of the names of colours I used to see on cloth material we sold. So it wasn’t all just made up or those designs, but really the name of these colours.

I grew up calling tangerines kinnu and oranges malta. I thought narangi is a Hindi word. I have a lot to learn.

I think… we should have a thread on colors…