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Aurat (word)

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “word which means "woman" in many asian languages including arabic”. Today it says “word which means "woman" in many asian languages including urdu”.
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Arabic word This article is about Contemporary and historical linguistics this wordings closely linked with Islamic terminology of 'awrah and Aurats like awrat,avret,arvad etc. Pl. help update and expand page for Contemporary and historical linguistics , accuracy and references. Decision about whether to keep article independent or merge in etymology sections of 'awrah and Aurats will be taken later through talk page discussion depending upon ultimate length this article achieves..1 Aurat is a word which means "woman" in many Asian languages including Arabic , Bengali , Hindi-Urdu , Persian , Punjabi , and Sorani Kurdish .2 It occurs in Azerbaijani as "arvad" and Ottoman Turkish as "avret".

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word which means "woman" in many asian languages including arabic

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word which means "woman" in many asian languages including urdu

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