Urdu
/ˈʊəduː/noun
mass noun
- an Indic language closely related to Hindi but written in the Persian script and having many loanwords from Persian and Arabic. It is the official language of Pakistan, and is also widely used in India and elsewhere, with about 50 million speakers worldwide.乌尔都语（与印地语有密切关系的一种印度语支的语言, 用波斯文字母书写, 有许多波斯和阿拉伯语外来词, 是巴基斯坦的官方语言并通行于印度等地, 全世界约有5,000万使用者）。
词源
from Persian （zabān-i-）urdū ' (language of the) camp' (because it developed as a lingua franca after the Muslim invasions between the occupying armies and the local people of the region around Delhi), urdū being from Turkic ordu （see HORDE）.