hafta, khaana, aik, char, panch, che, baazu, barkha...
Have actually come into Urdu via Farsi, and not Sanskrit.
Base 10 Number system originated from South Asia, not in Iran or Arabistan.....Parsis and Arabs learnt how to count in Base 10 number system from South Asians which is present India and Pakistan...
There is a reason why its called hindu-arabic or Indo-Arabic numeric system.
Indo numerals are being used since 500 BC and zero was added around 6 AD by Aryabhatt.
From South Asia this knowledge moved to Middle East. Arabs called this base 10 numerals as "Hindu numerals".....Arabs passed this knowledge to Europeans via North Africa, and they called it Indo-arabic numerals
Base 10 Number system originated from South Asia, not in Iran or Arabistan.....Parsis and Arabs learnt how to count in Base 10 number system from South Asians which is present India and Pakistan...
There is a reason why its called hindu-arabic or Indo-Arabic numeric system.
Indo numerals are being used since 500 BC and zero was added around 6 AD by Aryabhatt.
From South Asia this knowledge moved to Middle East. Arabs called this base 10 numerals as "Hindu numerals".....Arabs passed this knowledge to Europeans via North Africa, and they called it Indo-arabic numerals
Yes of course. No one is denying that the Arabic numerals were developed by Indians scholars.
But this thread isn't 'Urdu/Punjabi concepts from Sanskrit.' It's 'Urdu/Punjabi words from Sanskrit.'
And simply put, some of the words quoted by ** yamahaguy **came into Urdu via Farsi and not Sanskrit (they have originally come into Farsi through Sanskrit though, I'm not denying that).
A quick sojourn to wikipedia has come up with a good example; consider the word 'baryani' [rice dish] in English.
This was imported into the language via Urdu/Hindi but is actually Persian in origin بریان beryan]. If you look at the etymology of the word, it is always credited to Urdu/Hindi and not the original Farsi.
also Vedic Sanskrit and Old Farsi were very similar. so similar sounding words may exist in both the languages.
Any material to show this?
They're both classified as Indo-Aryan, and there was interaction between the Persians and Vedic Indians, but I wouldn't go so far as to call them 'very similar.'
Some commonly used urdu/punjabi words originating from Sanskrit.
Urdu/Punjabi (English): Sanskrit
Safed (White): Shweth
I see the problem with the first word, and I have not even read the whole list.
Safed (white) is an Arabized Persian word. The original Persian word is Saped سپید. But since Arabic does not have the 'pay پ' sound, therefore 'fay' was inserted in place of 'pay'. Thus the word changed from 'saped' to 'safed'.
This is exactly what happened to the Persian word for the language 'Parsi' becoming Arabized as 'Farsi'.
I had links saved up somewhere, dunno where they are now.
and i meant Avestan and Old Persian actually.
some examples will be Arya/Ariya, Gatha, Sthan/Stan, Pati(Sanskrit and Old Persian for lord), Rokh/Rath, Babula/Babul, bhumi/Bumi, karsha/karsa, namas/namaz, naranga/narang, vata etc. thats the most i could remember.
or how in the Vedas, Devas were the demi-gods and Asuras the demons and in Zoroastrian legends, its the opposite.
then there are a few words hat were derived from Sanskrit.
qand from khanda, badingaan from vaatingana. like i said, my memory limits me.