Urdu Vocabulary

Gregory Maxwell Bruce is a Lecturer in Urdu at the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He is the editor and translator of Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue by Shibli Nu'mani (Syracuse UP, 2019) and a regular contributor to Brill's online Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, and Encyclopaedia Iranica. He has previously taught Urdu courses at University of Texas, Austin in 2008 - 2016 and at the South Asia Summer Language Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009.

• 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.