Urdu/punjabi words from Sanskrit

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Re: Urdu/punjabi words from Sanskrit

@yamahaguy

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.