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A list of English words that have been borrowed from Hindi and Urdu, two registers of the Hindustani language. Many words have Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, or Turkic roots, and some entered English during the colonial period.
A coffin is a box for a corpse, either for burial or cremation. Learn about the etymology, history and cultural variations of coffins, as well as the difference between a coffin and a casket.
Learn about the Islamic belief in death as the separation of the soul from the body and the beginning of the afterlife. Explore the different concepts and traditions on the period between death and resurrection, the interaction between the dead and the living, and the significance of death in Islam.
Kafan is the white cotton or linen cloth used to wrap the dead body in Islam. Learn about the other rites and customs of Islamic funerals, such as bathing, shrouding, funeral prayer, burial and mourning.
Urdu Wikipedia is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. It has 207,915 articles, 182,047 registered users and 12,628 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count.
Learn about the origins and traditions of Christian burial, which involves the burial of a deceased person with specifically Christian rites in consecrated ground. Find out how inhumation became the dominant practice among Christians, and how it contrasts with cremation and other methods of disposition.
Learn how Persian influenced the formation and development of Urdu, a colloquial language and lingua franca of Pakistan and India. See a sample comparison of Iranian Persian and formal Urdu texts from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Barzakh is an Arabic word meaning "obstacle", "hindrance", or "separation" in Islam. It refers to a place or phase between death and resurrection, where souls are separated from bodies and may experience heaven or hell.