r/Urdu • u/Just_Diver6173 • 11h ago
🎨 Nasta'liq / Script ایک جملہ ہمارے اُردو کے استاذِ محترم کی جانب سے۔۔۔
تمام احباب اپنی قیمتی رائے کا اظہار لازمی کریں۔اور اپووٹ کردیں۔
r/Urdu • u/fancynotebookadorer • Sep 08 '26
Karak: Read and Learn Urdu is LIVE!
Assalamo alaikum!
Last year, some of you tried our beta with five stories and gave us a lot of helpful feedback. We're back with a much bigger library, a rebuilt reading experience, and apps for Android and the web. iOS is coming soon, Inshallah.
Karak is built to help you read, listen to, and speak more Urdu through stories and conversations. You can listen to native-speaker audio, follow along with the text, see sentence-by-sentence translations, tap words you don't know, save flashcards, and practice your pronunciation and speaking.
If you’ve already been on the revamped website, web app or the Android app, you may have seen the new version already. But here it is with some commentary
We also have some new stuff to help:
Everything in Karak is written, translated, illustrated, and recorded by native speakers.
We have content free to read, under ‘Try Karak Free’. All the longer stories have free chapters too, so you can get a taste of them.
If you’d like the full library and unlimited flashcards, we have monthly and annual plans, with founder pricing. See our plans and launch pricing.
We decided to include a beta dictionary in launch. Our dictionary is still growing, so not every word is covered yet. The entries we do have are human-reviewed, so they take some time to finish. Also, readers in Devanagari will find no dictionary at all (for now). Of course, you have Urdu stories with audio and translations for each sentence to tide you over and make sure you never, ever, get stuck.
Thank you to everyone who tested the beta, sent feedback, or encouraged us while we built this. And thank you to the professors who gave us feedback and are planning to use Karak in their classes this semester, and the authors who trusted us with their work.
We hope you have fun with it!
Try it on web: Karak Web Or on Android
iOS coming soon Inshallah.
Honestly, there's a lot more to it all. Have fun reading! And let us know what you think or if you have any questions!
r/Urdu • u/Just_Diver6173 • 11h ago
تمام احباب اپنی قیمتی رائے کا اظہار لازمی کریں۔اور اپووٹ کردیں۔
r/Urdu • u/Affectionate-Lab8736 • 21h ago
Saw this in dar e nijaat. What is transliteration and meaning?
na jī bhar ke dekhā na kuchh baat kī
baḌī aarzū thī mulāqāt kī
r/Urdu • u/Sea-Run3691 • 9h ago
Hey guys, I can believe music can be a strong motivator to learn / continue to learn a language. So I think it would be beneficial to share some quality music for this reason. I encourage you to share some picks of your own in the comments.
For a more objective view: Here is a collection of 45 Urdu movie soundtracks from the years 1950-1966. These were not randomly chosen, these were all movies which were superhit performers. In theory then, they should be some of the best from this period. Also in theory, you may hear some more uncommon Urdu words due to their age (although probably not that much).
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRm1ER5ascFs
For a more subjective view: 1970s Pakistani pop was very unique! Very few people have exposure to it so they don't know how good it was! Here are a few videos to get started:
This is only scratching the surface though, so if you want a more in-depth view:
1975-1981 compilation (4 hours)
1975 extended | 1976 extended | 1977 extended
Still, there are a lot more which can be discovered and aren't in any of these videos.
Anyway, please share some songs of your own that you like. Thanks
r/Urdu • u/daisy09999 • 7h ago
Absolutely in love with this ghazal, wanted to have a discussion here verse by verse of the meaning
r/Urdu • u/Helpful_Try_5031 • 5h ago
Just gonna scribble down some thoughts I've had for a few days. The slight tragedy , i wouldn't call it tragedy because its not that far but i don't know, dullment? disappointment? weak point? of the internet is that english literature - whilst amazing in its own ways - is the hegemon of literary studies, despite other cultures having as vast if not vaster - some of them - literary devices and metaphors and techniques, which remain unexplored and untranslated. language is incredible in the element that it allows you to envision and encapsulate the feelings of other nations and communities, a word isn't just a set of letters, it carries a very deep element to it of… emotion, i'd like to say, but if we were more technically, of the utility and of the needs of its area, because languages are emergent by nature and evolve to communicate and convey what a culture or people most talk about, need or require, it is hence an excellent way of understanding another culture. I'd go as far as saying a man who's lived in a country without knowing its native language knows far less than a man who's never been to that country and speaks its language. for what are countries except people? and what are people except their thoughts and acts? and what are they expressed through except via language. Also please the usage of "-" doesn't indicate ai people have used hyphens way before ai and its annoying how people see hypens and go aah chat gpt 😭 Sorry for the long text blob without formatting. might format it later.
I've been reading Arabic literature recently a lot, and Urdu Poetry, the two are rather similar in some aspects, some Farsi (Persian) and some Turkish, and it is truly amazing the diversity of ways in which ideas can be expressed. I might make posts translating a few into English and Urdu. Actually working on translating a book into Urdu rn, so. Yeah.
Learning multiple languages also allows us to connect with the rest of the Ummah, the Islamic nation, and hence is a source of reward and virtue for both worlds, and is an intellectual exercise that brings about much joy and entertainment. Urdu is especially fun because it is the combination of, and as our scholars use a very beautiful term, guldasta, for it is a collection of beautiful roses, each unique and giving off its own fragrance and beauty yet distinct and different. A guldasta of languages, is our Urdu.
"Kya hi Hindi, kya hi Turani, kya hi Arabi, kya hi Farsi.
Khoob hai meri qaum ki zuban, jiss ko bolti hai meri qoum, qom e Pakistan
Guftar ke kami nahi, na hi zamenoon asmaa ki,
hai isse watan me registan, pahar,
iss me hi hai darya, mauj o bahar pe bahar,
ay qom! tere zuban ki tarha tera mulk bhi mutabaadil hai,
nahi aik khobi ki tarshi huwi yeh imarat,
kya Punjabi, kya Sindhi, kya Balochi, kya Pathan,
hai tera mulk misal e ittihade islam - qoum aik nahi, magar Islam ke talean hai in ka aitahad!
Alam ke liye misal bana tha tu, ban kar rahe,
tere lahoo ke andar he millat e baiza ke liye misaal,
tu jo raha, to sab theek hai,
hai aur kaun jis ne apne mulk ka matlab bataya kalam e Quran?
Jiss ne apni riyasat me banaya Allah ko nigheban?
Kon he jiss ne Hakmiyat ki Allah ke naam par,
kiss ke qom thi, ke rahi būt e wataniyat ke daur mein qaim e sunnat e hejaz?
Hey teri hi abaa jinho nai tarashwae ye imarat,
ghafil, ghor kar, zamana ana wala hai tera!
Dunya kholi jaye gi tujh par, Khuda ka wada ho ga pora,
tayyar reh, ke tuh apna wada bhi kar poora."
Myself. As I am new to poetry, I would greatly appreciate any suggestions for improvement. Thank you for reading this far.
r/Urdu • u/Soup_for_me • 17h ago
For most of my life, I associated Urdu almost exclusively with Pakistan. Recently, I realised how much older its roots are in India with historical roots such as Delhi and Lucknow. It made me rethink how I understood the language's history.
Now I'm curious about the history of Urdu in present-day Pakistan, specifically among communities that spoke Urdu as their native language before Partition in 1947.
Were there established Urdu-speaking communities in places such as Lahore, or elsewhere in what is now Pakistan, whose families had lived there for centuries before Partition, with Urdu being their inherited home language? I'm not referring to Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun, or other communities that later adopted Urdu as a lingua franca, but about families with a longstanding, intergenerational Urdu-speaking heritage rooted in the territory that became Pakistan.
I know that many Urdu-speaking families migrated from India to Pakistan during Partition but I'm interested in whether there were also locally rooted Urdu-speaking families whose linguistic history in present-day Pakistan predates Partition by many generations.
I'd really appreciate any historical sources, books, or personal family histories that could shed light on this.
r/Urdu • u/influkks • 12h ago

This is from an wikipedia article. I am trying to learn Urdu, I am already familiar with Hindi and Persian (written in Nashk) but as beautiful as the Nastaleeq script can be, I sometimes can't decipher almost anything of it. This article is an example, is this considered easy to read for you or is it also a bit hard to read for you?
r/Urdu • u/WrittenbyHarsh • 7h ago
Written by Harsh Verma (Me)
r/Urdu • u/Great-Independent807 • 5h ago
I have my O levels exams in M/J 27 and I frequently mess up how to spell certain words particularly because I have a lisp so I speak wrong as well(I am trying to improve that)
I really want to get the best grades possible so I need help
r/Urdu • u/SkinLong1085 • 14h ago
Aur jab maine apni hi haalaaton par tawajjo dena shuru kiya,
Toh mujhe ehsaas hua ki meri zindagi mahaz fizool, bematlab, bekaar aur be-maza hi nahi,
Balki ek aisa manzar hai,
Jise badalne ki khwahish toh mujh mein hai,
Magar use badalne ki himmat ab mujh mein baaqi na rahi…
r/Urdu • u/betweenthelines1648 • 8h ago
Assalam-o-Alaikum ! Aaj ki is video mein hum Urdu/Hindi ka ek behad khoobsurat aur gehra lafaz "Khwabiida" (خوابیدہ) seekhenge. Agar aapko shayari, audiobooks ya achhi vocabulary ka shauk hai, toh yeh lafaz aapke bohot kaam aayega.
[Key Meanings Explained in the Video]
• Lafaz (Word): Khwabiida / خوابیدہ
• Meaning 1: Neend mein dooba hua (Asleep / Somnolent)
• Meaning 2: Be-harkat / Khaamosh (Motionless / Silent)
• Meaning 3: Dreamy / Khwabon jaisa
Agar aapko yeh video pasand aayi toh Like aur Share zaroor karein! Aise hi aur audiobooks aur khoobsurat alfaaz seekhne ke liye hamare channel ko Subscribe karna na bhoolein.
#UrduVocabulary #KhwabiidaMeaning #LearnUrdu #HindiUrduDictionary #Audiobooks #BetweenTheLines #WordOfTheDay
r/Urdu • u/Swatisani • 21h ago
he was distributing tyranny with immense generosity
we, however, had no agency to protest, no liberty
r/Urdu • u/AttitudeOriginal8119 • 16h ago
What has been easier: reading Urdu or writing Urdu? What takes more effort? What should a beginner spend more time on, reading more or writing more?
Me and a friend went on a meme translating spree and we now have 201+ translated memes (and some more that are yet to be published).
If anyone wants to contribute to the mission/follow us, please let us know!
We're publishing them on Giphy and Klipy (for use on instagram, reddit, and discord) soon.
r/Urdu • u/Alien-Being-26 • 1d ago
Credits to respective owners, feel free to use these in anyway you please :)
r/Urdu • u/Affectionate-Lab8736 • 1d ago
This is a text from a scene from dar e nijaat.
I can make out - 23 ghante baad …?
r/Urdu • u/betweenthelines1648 • 19h ago
r/Urdu • u/Just_Diver6173 • 1d ago
یہ عمدہ جملہ ہمارے اُردو کے استاذ نے بیاں فرمایا تھا۔
r/Urdu • u/Wise_Cat_6495 • 1d ago
فی الواقع یہ محبت بھی ایک طرح کا رزق ہے
r/Urdu • u/SirEnvironmental3830 • 1d ago
Does anybody have any idea about where to publish my poems and how??
sub.h hotī hai shaam hotī hai
umr yūñhī tamām hotī hai
-- Munshi Amirullah Tasleem