Category:Urdu terms by etymology

Urdu terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Urdu back-formations: Urdu terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Urdu blends: Urdu terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Urdu borrowed terms: Urdu terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Urdu calques: Urdu calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Urdu compound terms: Urdu terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Urdu deverbals: Urdu terms derived from a verb.
• Category:Urdu doublets: Urdu terms that trace their etymology from ultimately the same source as other terms in the same language, but by different routes, and often with subtly or substantially different meanings.
• Category:Urdu ellipses: Urdu terms that are shortened versions of longer expressions.
• Category:Urdu eponyms: Urdu terms derived from names of real or fictitious people.
• Category:Urdu inherited terms: Urdu terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Urdu words derived through metathesis: Urdu words that were created through metathesis from another word.
• Category:Urdu metonyms: Urdu terms whose origin involves calling a thing or concept not by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
• Category:Urdu neologisms: Urdu terms that have been only recently acknowledged.
• Category:Urdu onomatopoeias: Urdu terms that were coined to sound like what they represent.
• Category:Urdu partial calques: Urdu partial calques, i.e. terms formed partly by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages and partly by direct borrowing.
• Category:Urdu terms by prefix: Urdu terms categorized by their prefixes.
• Category:Urdu reduplications: Urdu terms that underwent reduplication, so their origin involved a repetition of roots or stems.
• Category:Urdu Sanskritic formations: Urdu terms coined from tatsama words and/or affixes.
• Category:Urdu semantic loans: Urdu semantic loans, i.e. terms one or more of whose definitions was borrowed from a term in another language.
• Category:Urdu terms by suffix: Urdu terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Urdu terms attributed to a specific source: Urdu terms coined by an identifiable person or deriving from a known work.
• Category:Urdu terms derived from other languages: Urdu terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Urdu terms with Indo-Aryan extensions: Urdu terms extended with particular Indo-Aryan pleonastic affixes.
• Category:Urdu univerbations: Urdu terms that result from the agglutination of two or more words.
• Category:Urdu terms with unknown etymologies: Urdu terms whose etymologies have not yet been established.