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We publish academic books and journalsin our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. For more information visit our website:  \n[edinburghuniversitypress.com](edinburghuniversitypress.com)  \n© Gregory Maxwell Bruce, 2021  \nCover image: © Hamidreza Ghelichkhani  \n[Cover design: www.richardbudddesign.co.uk](Cover design: www.richardbudddesign.co.uk)  \nEdinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun—Holyrood Road  \n12 (2f ) Jackson’s Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ  \nTypeset in 14/16 Myriad Arabic by IDSUK (DataConnection) Ltd, and printed and bound in Great Britain  \nA CIP record for this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN 978 1 4744 6719 3 (hardback)  \nISBN 978 1 4744 6720 9 (paperback)  \nISBN 978 1 4744 6721 6 (webready PDF)  \nISBN 978 1 4744 6722 3 (epub)  \nThe right of Gregory Maxwell Bruce to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498) .  \nPublished with the support of the University of Edinburgh Scholarly Publishing Initiatives Fund.  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments vi  \nA Note on Transliteration viii  \nIntroduction and How to Use this Book 1  \n1 Urdu and English: Shared Histories, Shared Vocabularies 13  \n2 The Arabic Element 55  \n3 The Hindi Element 157  \n4 The Persian Element 203  \n5 The Prakrit-Sanskrit Element 257  \nAppendix I Arabic Verbal Noun Charts 296  \nAppendix II Persian Verbal Noun Charts 307  \nAppendix III Hindi Verbal Noun Charts 316  \nAppendix IV Sanskrit Roots 319  \nBibliography 322  \nIndex 325  \nAcknowledgments  \nThis book is the result of sixteen years of language studies in Arabic, Hindi-Urdu, Persian, and Sanskrit that began at the University of California, Santa Cruz and continued at the American Institute of Indian Studies, Delhi University, and the University of Texas at Austin. My first Hindi-Urdu teacher, John Mock, remains a major source of inspiration to me. I am likewise grateful to all the teachers at the American Institute of Urdu Studies’ program in Lucknow for their patience and for introducing me to the world of Urdu literature. I am especially grateful for the many hours that I spent discussing Urdu words with Fahmida Bano, Wafadar Husain, Ahtesham Khan, and Sheba Iftikhar. At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I was lucky to assist and observe the late Qamar Jalil, whose pedagogical insights are reflected throughout this text. At the University of Texas at Austin, I had the great fortune to study with some of the greatest teachers of language and literature in the world. Syed Akbar Hyder provided me with a broad and rigorous instruction in Urdu literature. Michael Hillmann spent years training me in the intricacies of Persian. Many of the ideas and insights in the Arabic and Persian units of this book are the direct result of his mentorship. 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