Urdu Vocabulary

Gregory Maxwell Bruce is Assistant Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Picture Gallery (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) which is the first and only English translation of Nigāristān by Muʿīnī Juvainī and is compiled from Edward Rehatsek's (1819–1891) original manuscript, Nigāristān: A Facsimile Edition (Mazda Publishers, 2023), Urdu Vocabulary (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue (Syracuse University Press, 2020). His shorter writings about the history of Persian and Persianate intellectual history and literature in South Asia can be found, inter alia, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Iranian Studies, and SUFI.N.

• Introduction and How to Use this Book; 1. Urdu and English: Shared Histories, Shared Vocabularies; 2. The Arabic Element; 3. The Hindi Element; 4. The Persian Element; 5. The Prakrit and Sanskrit Element; Appendix I. Arabic Verbal Noun Charts; Appendix II: Hindi Verbal Noun Charts; Appendix III: Persian Verbal Noun Charts; Appendix IV: Sanskrit Verbal Noun Charts; Index of Topics and Lessons.