Urdu

n. official Pakistani language which is written in Arabic letters and spoken by over 100 million people worldwide (mostly Muslims in Pakistan, but also in India and Bangladesh)

Urdu (, , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to Indo-European family of languages. It developed under Persian and to a lesser degree Arabic and Turkic influence on  apabhramshas during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire (1526–1858 AD). Urdu is a standardised register of Hindustani termed khaṛībolī, that emerged as a standard dialect. The grammatical description in this article concerns this standard . In general, the term "" can encompass dialects of Hindustani other than the standardised versions.
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Noun
1. the official literary language of Pakistan, closely related to Hindi; widely used in India (mostly by Moslems); written in Arabic script
(hypernym) Sanskrit, Sanskritic language
Adjective
1. relating to the Urdu language; "Urdu poetry"
(pertainym) Urdu

n. Urdu, one of the Pakistani tongues (Hindustani)

n. Urdu, official Pakistani language which is written in Arabic letters and spoken by about 40 million people (mostly Muslims in Pakistan, but also in India and Bangladesh)