urdu
n. uncountablen. the official language of Pakistan, also widely spoken in India. It is written from right to left and uses a script similar to Arabic.
n. an Indo-Aryan language that serves as the national language of Pakistan and a primary language in parts of India. It shares a common spoken base with Hindi but utilizes the Perso-Arabic script and draws its formal vocabulary from Persian and Arabic.
She speaks Urdu fluatively with her grandparents.
The poet recited his latest work in Urdu, captivating the audience with the language's rhythmic and expressive qualities.
While Urdu and Hindi are mutually intelligible in their spoken form, they diverge significantly in their written scripts and the literary traditions from which they derive their high-register vocabulary.
Borrowed from Hindustani (see Urdu اُرْدُو (urdū) and Hindi उर्दू (urdū)), from Classical Persian اُرْدُو (urdū), from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“army, camp”) ( > Azerbaijani ordu, Turkish ordu, Turkmen oorda). Doublet of horde and orda.
When referring to the language, it is uncountable and always capitalized.