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Urdu
Etymology
From Chagatai جغتای (jağatāy), compare Uyghur چاغاتاي (chaghatay) and Persian جغتایی (jağatâyi).
Also known more archaically as تُرکی (Turkī, “Turkic; Chagatai”); what the first Mughal Emperor Babur referred to his language as in his autobiography, the Baburnama.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
چغتائی • (cuġtāī) ? (Hindi spelling चग़ताई)
- Chagatai; a now-extinct Turkic language closely related to Uzbek and Uyghur, characterized by its advanced literary tradition and prestigious status and heavily Persianized form, initially spoken by the Mughals whence the many Chagatai loanwords preserved in Urdu
- of or pretaining to Chagatai-speakers or Chagatai people
- of or pretaining to Chagatai Khan, Genghis Khan's second son; or his Chagatai Khanate, a Turkicized khanate of Central Asia
- a surname, Chughtai, from Chagatai
References
- “چغتائی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.