Urdu speakers: is the word gumraah (lost) arabic or farsi root?
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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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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):
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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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I can’t think of any modern Sanskrit-root Hindi words with that connotation hmm.
Right, then it would make sense that it entered Urdu/Hindi through Persian then.
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