Common words between Urdu & Turkish languages

Shahzheeb Khan
1 min readMar 24, 2019

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Recently I was watching a Turkish drama series on Netflix with subtitles and realized that there are plenty of words that are common between Urdu and Turkish. The commonality could be because of the high influence of Persian and Arabic in both languages. The pronunciation of some of the words are somewhat different but the meaning is the same.

1. Aashiqui

2. Adalat

3. Ahmaq

4. Bahaar (Spring)

5. Bazaar

6. Baji

7. Fida

8. Fitna

9. Fuzool

10. Gul

11. Haqeqat

12. Hatun (khatun)

13. Hisaab

14. Imtehan

15. Inteqam

16. Etemaad (Trust, Reliable)

17. Ishq

18. Janaza

19. Jawab

20. Jung

21. Laakin (Lekin)

22. Mashaal

23. Masoom

24. Qaatil

25. Quli

26. Sabr

27. Shayer

28. Sherbet

29. Shishi (Glass bottle)

30. Shukr

31. Wasiyat

32. Zeher

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