Urdu speakers: is the word gumraah (lost) arabic or farsi root?
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The word is almost exact in sound. Just found the variation in definition interesting.
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yup here's what my Urdu dictionary says for gum-rah, as well as some surrounding gum- words in same sense (unf doesn't show the specific root):pic.twitter.com/1FLxHwncIW
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Definitely not Arabic, but it _may_ have entered Hindi through Persian although the root exists both for Avestan and Sanskrit ("gam" lost, missing, disappeared"). Reminder that the parent languages of modern Persian and Hindi (Avesan/Sanskrit) are very much related.
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yup here's what my Urdu dictionary shares for both root gum- (lost, missing, wanting) and word variations on (in same sense of lost, abandonment, astray, or deviation) including gum-rah ... unf no etymological info [it's a poet's dictionary so;)]pic.twitter.com/Weh1l9M2df
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It's from Persian, not Arabic.
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