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A daily Urdu word in Nastaliq with Roman spelling, meaning, an example sentence and a browser-saved streak.
An Urdu word-of-the-day deck of 30 curated words, each shown in Nastaliq script with a Roman Urdu reading, the part of speech, an example sentence and a note on its Arabic or Persian origin. The word is fixed by the calendar date rather than chosen at random, so the same date always shows the same word and you can move to any past or future day. A streak counter is kept in your own browser.
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Every headword and example is given in Nastaliq and in Roman, so you can read either way.
Each note says whether the word came from Arabic or Persian, which explains its register and its plural forms.
Notes separate near-synonyms — himmat against hausla, khwāhish against ārzū.
The grammar and the core everyday vocabulary are largely shared, but the formal registers diverge: Urdu draws its higher vocabulary from Persian and Arabic, Hindi from Sanskrit. So a court judgment, a wedding card or a poem in the two languages can look very different while ordinary spoken sentences remain mutually intelligible.
Roman Urdu is widely used in messaging and is fine for getting started, but it has no single agreed spelling standard, so one word can be written several ways. Learning Nastaliq is what gives you access to books, newspapers and poetry.
Yes. The word is derived from the number of days since 1 January 1970 divided by the size of the deck, so it does not vary by device or timezone and you can revisit any date.
Only in this browser's local storage. Nothing leaves your device, so clearing site data or switching phone or laptop resets the count.