Urdu speakers: is the word gumraah (lost) arabic or farsi root?
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Can speak lower-intermediate Urdu. Can "roughly" read it; never really wrote it.
As for Arabic -- basics; took 3 levels in undergrad, wrote 500-word essays in Arabic. Can read Shakespearean-level of Arabic, impeccable pronunciation; carried over from childhood.
No Farsi.
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