Urdu speakers: is the word gumraah (lost) arabic or farsi root?
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Don't have a dictionary on me; I'd recommend pulling up an Arabic dictionary and looking up the jidr (root) -- g-m-r (geem; meem; ra).
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Here's an interesting reference to gumrah (more like a single a though) -- a "glowing coal" :
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That sounds like a different word. AFAIK in Urdu at least, gum- is always a lost/unknown prefix (gumrah =lost, gumnaam= anonymous etc).
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Gum and Raah are both Farsi words. (They could _also_ be Arabic).





