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@DrugGovoruna @cmhrrs So does Urdu: pad and phus

@cmhrrs Russian inherits two Indo-European words for fart: to fart loudly and to fart quietly. English only inherits the first, but Dutch inherits the second.

The word “fart” sounds like juvenile slang but is the standard word for what it describes all the way back to Proto-Indo-European, with clear cognates in Greek and Sanskrit

@SmokeStack13033 @s_m_marandi And if that only whets your appetite, move to the excellent Year amongst the Persians by Edward Browne. Longer but very well written, though the scholar dwells overmuch on the Bahai faith at times.

@SmokeStack13033 @s_m_marandi Try the Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron. A Westerner's view from a hundred years ago and tasteless in a few places but I liked it well enough

The best books on Iran in English that I've read: 'Going to Tehran' - Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett 'Resistance' - Alastair Crooke 'A Dangerous Delusion' - Peter Oborne 'Manufactured Crisis' - Gareth Porter Everyone following the current situation should buy and read them.

غالب کے شعر: گفتم ایں ماہ پیکراں چہ کس اند گفت خوبان کشور لندن گفتم ایناں مگر دلے دارند گفت دارند لیکن از آہن Said I, Who are these moonfaced folk? Said he, The lovelies of the city of London Said I, Perhaps they have a heart Said he, They do yet of iron

@swd2 @Grok where is this moment from?

This was the moment that I knew he wasn't a Christian.

I’ve been an evangelist for Stefan Zweig as a writer more people should read for years, posted about him a lot on here. I’ve seen numerous people promote his memoir/history ‘The World of Yesterday’ over the last couple of years, and I’ve promoted it myself. His short stories and novellas are also excellent - as are his short biographies. Here are a few things worth reading from him: 1) Buchmendel - short story about a Viennese antique books dealer whose business falls apart after WW1; 2) 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman - contains one of the most penetrating analyses of the gambling compulsion you will read anywhere; 3) The Invisible Collection - describes a dealer in autographs and handwritten pieces of famous figures whose work is sold off by family to pay bills in post-WW1 Vienna. It’s a tragic tale. The man is blind and doesn’t know; 4) Schachnovelle - Chess Story - which is one of the best literary depictions of the chess mania in existence and its sometime relation to mental illness. It’s also a story of Vienna under the Gestapo after 1938; 5) The Struggle with the Daemon - a comparative biography of Hölderlin, Kleist and Nietzsche and their issues with mental health. It uses Goethe as a counterweight - an example of someone who overcame similar challenges. Whether you agree or not - it’s a breezy, interesting read. All of these stories inform the elegiac tone of World of Yesterday - which describes in brilliant detail what a wonderful time it was to be alive in Vienna pre-1914. And of course the dramatic fall from that height that followed.

@FischerKing64 I read him in German and really loved the World of Yesterday. But while his writing style is very "smooth" and even - best way to describe it - his short stories do lack a certain charm, so that, while having read them once, one is not much inclined to read again.

@dinggangchina I always wonder, are Chinese not wary of this ease and plenty? Do they not fear loss of their roots and sapping of will?

From hometown flavors to global feast: two decades of change on Chinese festival dinner table globaltimes.cn/page/202602/13…

@avtansa *rajneet to be more precise

@avtansa What is the difference between siyasat and neeti?

Horses, politics and Management Siyāsat is the Urdu/Hindi word for politics. It is derived from Siyāsa (سياسة), the Arabic word for "politics" or "governance," which has its etymological roots in the care, training, and management of horses.

@iqtibaas88 the right one's cover looks AI-made

Reading these books in Chennai this weekend:

@nakujabadi A truer rendering by yours truly: One might, having toiled, draw out a jewel from the tooth of a makara maw, Even the heaving sea, full of wave wreaths, might cross, Even an angered snake set upon the head like a flower Yet would not win the mind of a stupid, stubborn fellow

A man may tear a jewel From a sea monster’s jaws, Cross a tumultuous sea Of raging tides, Or twine garlandwise A wrathful serpent on his head. But no man can alter The thoughts of an obstinate fool Bhartṛhari (ca. 650)

@sabizak Madam, I wonder if you might give your opinion on my channel. It deals with literature and materials in Urdu. Here's my newest video. youtu.be/T_Be_ywaL0o?si…

Full video youtu.be/ABjnCaQtH1Q?si…

Kaaba vs the dil

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@re_man00 @guywithlibrary It's Urdu heavily flavoured with Persian, partly because of the stuff he deals with but partly also because those educated in Islamic sciences do tend to unnecessarily use jarring Arabic words rather than desi ones.

@guywithlibrary Ahmed Javed sb is love ❤️. also listening to him made me realise i’m not as good in urdu as i thought i was.

I have a confession to make: whenever I want an intellectual high, I listen to these two gentlemen

Old words pt.3: Karaku کراکو: a type of hard tobacco Darai دارائی: a type of silken cloth Akas diya اکاس دیہ: a large lamp set atop a pole, lit at festive times Mir Ab میر آب: the official in charge of all kinds of water supply, rivers, streams, reservoirs

Old words pt 2: Kahi کہی: gathering fodder for animals in armies. From grass (کاہ) Dar-bast دار بست: wooden trellis for vines in gardens Khushka خشکہ: plain boiled rice Mul مول: the mango blossom Sang-zor سنگ زور: stone on which wrestlers try their strength

Old words from Mukhlis' travelogue: Peshkhana پیش خانہ: for sultans and amirs when encamped, the second set of tent and travel simples that is sent ahead to the next campsite and erected Badla بادلہ: a costly cloth woven with gold (zar-baf). Seems like a cloud (badal)

آنند رام مخلص بتاتا ہے کہ زمانے کے امرا آم ایسے کھاتے تھے کہ پہلے اس کی باریک باریک قاشیں تراش کر مٹی، چینی یا شیشے کے برتن میں لگاتے ہیں، اوپر سے مصری گلاب اور بید مشک چھڑک کر ایک دو پہر کے لئے چھوڑ دیتے ہیں۔ پھر کھاتے ہیں

Stefan Zweig on how the French honoured poets and artists that they gave minor governmental posts to them so they might make art instead of working some humdrum job