Ed Sheeran's album Play has a song featuring Arijit Singh which has a few Punjabi lines, but while Arijit sings most of these lines, the...

It was 1994, and the one audio cassette that was playing in every household was Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! And Maye ni Maye, I believe the first...

Zinda is Hindi/Urdu for 'alive', while 'banda' is a casual word for a person. Originally 'banda' meant a follower of...

Ve Kamleya is the title of a song from the film Rocky aur Rani kii Prem Kahani. The word 'kamleya' comes from kamla, meaning a crazy...

Pasoori (पसूड़ी) is a Punjabi word, that is actually a way of saying 'Bhasoori' (भसूड़ी). Bhasoodi has also resulted in the Hindi sl...

Dafa kar is a song composed and sung by A R Rahman for the film Heropanti 2. The song is written by Mehboob Kotwal. 'dafa kar' or ...

Ratti (Hindi: रत्ती) is an Indian unit to measure small amounts of something, generally used for jewellery etc. It's a little less than ...

Atrangi is not a word generally found in Hindi dictionaries, but it's almost a well-known word now, with a pretty well-defined meaning. ...

So Pagglait is going crazy. No wonder, as the album is a lovely one, with some lovely music from Arijit Singh and some beautiful words from ...

Pangaa or Panga [Devnagari:पंगा, Gurumukhi:ਪੰਗਾ] is a very famous word these days. As such the word comes to Hindi from Punjabi. However, it...

Here I'm talking about the main one line that is there in the Dream Girl version of the song. In short, the meaning is: The clouds hav...

Saand is Hindi for Bull and Aankh is eye, so 'saanD ki aankh' (साँड़ की आँख, though often spoken as सांड की आँख) literally translates...

Chhichhora (also spelled as chichora, Devanagari:छिछोरा) is Hindi for shallow, superficial, worthless. It's often used for vagrant boys ...

Shafakhana [also spelled as shafakhana, shafaakhaanaa, shafaakhaana etc., Devanagari:शफ़ाख़ाना] is an Urdu word which comes from shafaa (शफ़ा),...

Khayaal is a common Urdu word which means a thought. When we add the prefix be- (or bay-, sounding like English 'bay') to it, it bec...

Jugraafiya (also spelled as Jugrafiya / Jugraafia / Jugrafia etc., Devanagari:जुगराफ़िया) is nothing but Urdu for 'Geography', Bhoogo...

Jodi (or joRi) is simple Hindi for a pair or couple. Jabariya comes from jabran or zabardasti which mean forcefully. Hence the phrase Jabari...

Malaal (also spelled as malal, devanagari:मलाल) is a common Urdu word of Arabic origin which means depression, dejection, grief, vexation, o...

Chhapaak (also spelled Chapaak/ Chhapak, Devanagari: छपाक) is the sound of a splash. One could call chhapaak a splash, but more precisely, c...

Mungda (written as 'मुंगडा' 'मुंगळा' in Marathi, though a closer Hindi transliteration will be 'मुंगड़ा', as Marath...