CM

en-noun

CM (countable and uncountable, plural CMs)

Sense "commercial" is a borrowing from Japanese CM (CM, “promotional video”), from English commercial + message.

Coordinate term: PM (“prime minister”)

(India, Pakistan) Initialism of chief minister.


myself

From Middle English myself, meself, from Old English mē selfum and similar phrases, equivalent to me + self, later partly reinterpreted as my + self / -self. Cognate with Scots mysel, mysell (“myself”), West Frisian mysels (“myself”), Dutch mijzelf (“myself”), German mich selbst, mir selbst (“myself”), Norwegian Bokmål meg selv (“myself”).

Myself John.

(India, Pakistan, nonstandard) my name is...


committee

→ French: comité (see there for further descendants)

From commit + -ee, or else revival of Anglo-Norman commite, past participle of commettre (“to commit”), from Latin committere, from con- (“with”) + mittere (“to send”). The OED3 prefers the first etymology.

a camel is a horse designed by a committee

(Pakistan, British Pakistani, finance) Alternative form of kameti


CSS

Central Superior Services
w:Central Superior Services

(Pakistan) Initialism of Central Superior Services.


suit

desc

→ Kashubian: sut (Canada, United States)

→ Swahili: suti

From Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite and Old French sieute, siute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from Vulgar Latin *sequita (for secūta), from Latin sequi (“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together. See also the doublet suite. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Related to sue and segue.


CDA

Capital Development Authority
w:Capital Development Authority

(Pakistan) Initialism of Capital Development Authority.


tomato sauce

en-noun

tomato sauce (usually uncountable, plural tomato sauces)

A plastic tomato sauce bottle, which could have been cut in half to make a flower pot, was quickly surveyed along with other trophies, and received the death sentence. “In the bin, Bob.”

1979 June, Peter C. Harper, Robert Alexander Falla K.B.E., C.M.G., M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.N.Z.: An Appreciation, page 356:

1980 January-May, Laurence Le Guay, Cruising World, page 98,
I quickly learned that there is a hell of a difference between tomato sauce and ketchup and that there is an even greater difference when it comes to mayonnaise: real American or the pseudo Australian — and I had always believed this to be a French concoction.

The event was a BBQ in the peaceful and picturesque System Garden at the University of Melbourne, Parkville campus. Food was plentifil and included a variety of sausages and veggie burgers, onions, bread and tomato sauce in addition to soft drinks.

2003 March, Microbiology Australia, page 46:

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) Tomato ketchup, used as a condiment.


caucus

caucuses (plural)
caucusses (plural)
in UK (Pakistan archaic)

Unknown. Often claimed to be from an Algonquian language; transcribed words such as cawaassough and caucauasu meaning "counselor, elder, adviser" appear in early texts.
A popular folk etymology attested in Great Leaders and National Issues of 1896 stated: "In the early part of the eighteenth century a number of caulkers connected with the shipping business in the North End of Boston held a meeting for consultation. That meeting was the germ of the political caucuses which have formed so prominent a feature of our government ever since its organization."
American Heritage Dictionary states the term is taken from the Caucus Club of Boston in the 1760s, possibly from Medieval Latin caucus (“drinking vessel”).

bor

He conferred with Mr. Warren of Plymouth upon the necessity of giving into spirited measures, and then said, "Do you keep the committee in play, and I will go and make a caucus against the evening; and do you meet me."

1788, William Gordon, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America:

A usually preliminary meeting of party members to nominate candidates for public office or delegates to be sent a nominating convention, or to confer regarding policy.

A grouping of all the members of a legislature from the same party.

parlamentní klub

a grouping of all members of a legislature representing the same party

A political interest group by members of a legislative body.


ordinance

From Middle English ordinaunce (ca. 1300), from Old French ordenance (“decree, command”) (modern French ordonnance), from Medieval Latin ordinantia, from ordinans, the present participle of ordino (“put in order”) (whence ordain). Doublet of ordonnance.

der

An edict or decree, authoritative order.

(India, Pakistan) A temporary legislation promulgated by the president on the recommendation of the cabinet.


chick

Borrowed from Hindustani چق (ciq) / चिक (cik), ultimately from Persian چق (čeq).

1890, Rudyard Kipling, Letter to William Canton, 5 April, 1890, in Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.) Writings on writing by Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 34, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-AQStA5QMjwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Then, through a cautiously lifted chick, the old scene stands revealed […]

It is not uncommon at meal-time to see the table servants chasing the sparrows about the room, endeavouring to drive them out while some one holds up the "chick" or bamboo net which covers the doorway.

1905, A. C. Newcombe, chapter VII, in Village, Town, and Jungle Life in India, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 106:

[…] at this time of day all the verandas were curtained with green bamboo chicks.

1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

Outside I could hear the bamboo chick tapping on the door like a blind man's stick on a kerbstone.

1999, Kevin Rushby, chapter 10, in Chasing the Mountain of Light: Across India on the Trail of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond, New York: St. Martin's Press, page 216:

(India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.


PCB

en-noun

PCB (countable and uncountable, plural PCBs)

Pakistan Cricket Board
w:Pakistan Cricket Board

(Pakistan) Initialism of Pakistan Cricket Board.


PSP

Police Service of Pakistan
w:Police Service of Pakistan

(Pakistan) Abbreviation of Police Service of Pakistan.


American football

"Chain mail, or an American football suit - that's what you'll want."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

A game similar to rugby football played on a field of one hundred yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide (with two ten yard-long endzones) in which two teams of eleven players attempt to get an ovoid ball into each other's territory.


yaar

From Hindustani یار (yār) / यार (yār), from Classical Persian یار (yār).

Help me, yaar!

‘I'm going to make the most of my life now, yaar,’ he said.

1990, Hanif Kureishi, chapter 15, in The Buddha of Suburbia, London, Boston: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 222:

(India, Pakistan) A friend, pal, or buddy.


sepoy

→ Dutch: sepoy, sipoy

→ Indonesian: sepoy

→ German: Sepoy

→ Italian: sepoy

→ Swedish: sepoy

→ Finnish: sepoy

→ Turkish: sepoy

From Portuguese sipae, from Urdu سِپاہی (sipāhī) / Hindi सिपाही (sipāhī), from Classical Persian سِپَاهِی (sipāhī, “soldier, horseman”), from سِپَاه (sipāh, “army”). Doublet of spahi.

der

(India, Pakistan, Nepal) The holder of an infantry enlisted rank equivalent to private in other countries.


burger

Clipping of hamburger, rebracketing it as ham + burger. From around 1939.
"American" sense likely a back-formation from Burgerland.

/ˈbɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)/

(Pakistan, usually derogatory) A stereotypical well-off Pakistani aspiring to a westernized lifestyle.


dai

Borrowed from Hindi दाई (dāī), from Sanskrit.

Kausalya, she learnt, was his dai, the one who had breast-fed and looked after him.

1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 72:

(chiefly North India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) A wet nurse; a midwife.


lota

From Hindi लोटा (loṭā) / Urdu لوٹا (loṭā).
(person who switches loyalties): From the fact that the lota pot has a tendency to fall over and roll around, as it is not stable sitting on its base.

(Pakistani politics) A person who switches loyalties, especially from one political party to another.


PSO

(Pakistan) Abbreviation of Pakistan State Oil.


APS

w:Army Public Schools and Colleges System

(Pakistan) Abbreviation of Army Public Schools and Colleges System.

Abbottabad Public School
w:Abbottabad Public School

(Pakistan) Abbreviation of Abbottabad Public School.


AMC

Army Medical College
w:Army Medical College

(Pakistan) Initialism of Army Medical College.

Ayub Medical College
w:Ayub Medical College

(Pakistan) Initialism of Ayub Medical College.


KP

en-noun

KP (countable and uncountable, plural KPs)

(Pakistan) Initialism of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.


ICT

ICT (countable and uncountable, plural ICTs)

Islamabad Capital Territory
Islamabad Capital Territory#English

(Pakistan) Initialism of Islamabad Capital Territory.


NAB

National Accountability Bureau
w:National Accountability Bureau

(Pakistan) Abbreviation of National Accountability Bureau.


bioscope

→ Kurtöp: བེས་ཀོབ (beskop)

From bio- + -scope. Modern use in South Africa is under the influence of Afrikaans bioskoop.

Like their Western brothers, groups of native youths [in Burma] from out-lying places set out cheerfully on Saturday nights to visit the nearest "Bioscope", as they call the cinema[.]

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 175:

(South Africa, India, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Pakistan, dated) A cinema or movie theatre.


infructuous

en-adj

infructuous (comparative more infructuous, superlative most infructuous)

more infructuous (comparative)
most infructuous (superlative)

(obsolete or Pakistan, India) Not fruitful.


gora

From Hindustani گورا (gorā) / गोरा (gorā).

(North India, Pakistan, British India, elsewhere slang) A white person.


dacoit

Borrowed from Hindustani ڈکیت / डकैत (ḍakait), from ڈاکا (ḍākā) / डाका (ḍākā, “gang-robbery”).

1893, Bithia Mary Croker, "The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor" in "To Let" etc., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906, p. 118, https://archive.org/details/toletcroker00crok
[…] she had harangued us on the subject of fever and cholera and bad water, had warned us solemnly against dacoits, and now she was hinting at ghosts.

If any village failed in its tribute U Po Kyin took punitive measures—gangs of dacoits attacked the village, leading villagers were arrested on false charges, and so forth—and it was never long before the amount was paid up.

1934, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Burmese Days:

The history of northern India is studded with the names of notorious outlaw dacoits who roam the hills in the name of Kali, robbing the rich, comforting the poor, and in general spreading terror and rough justice.

1954 July 19, “The Terror of Kings”, in Time:

On the way back Boyles led him down a lampless lane, and sure enough, a pair of dacoits pounced on them.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 49:

“The notorious forest brigand, bandit, murderer and dacoit, Veerappan, along with his entire gang, has been shot dead,” Jayaram Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State, announced.

2004 October 20, Catherine Philp, “India's Bandit King is betrayed”, in The Times, London:

A very athletic female dacoit was arrested in North Nazimabad in Karachi after she vaulted over a nine-foot wall, following her unsuccessful attempt at armed robbery in the house of a retired banker.

2007 April 21, “EDITORIAL: Pakistani Phoolan Devi’s short career”, in Daily Times, Pakistan:

(chiefly India, Pakistan, Myanmar) A bandit or armed robber, especially former parts of British India.


pilu

(India, Pakistan) Alternative form of peeloo (“kind of tree”)


LDA

en-noun

LDA (countable and uncountable, plural LDAs)

Lahore Development Authority
w:Lahore Development Authority

(Pakistan) Initialism of Lahore Development Authority.


izzat

Borrowed from Hindustani عِزَّت ('izzat) / इज़्ज़त (izzat), from Classical Persian عِزَّت (izzat), from Arabic عِزَّة (ʕizza).

‘But whether the native swaggers or cringes there's always something behind every remark he makes, always something, and if nothing else he's trying to increase his izzat – in plain Anglo-Saxon, to score.’

1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 29:

‘She has cut off our noses. And our izzat.’

1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 10:

(North India, Pakistan) Honour, pride; reputation.


Hazara

From Classical Persian هَزَارَه (hazāra).

(Pakistan) A region in the cis-Indus area of North Pakistan.


shopper

→ Urdu: شاپر (śāpar)


banyan

From Portuguese baniano, from Arabic بَنِيَان (baniyān), from Gujarati વાણિયો (vāṇiyo, “merchant”), from Sanskrit वाणिज (vāṇijá), from earlier वणिज् (vaṇíj, “merchant, trader”). The name appears to have been first bestowed popularly on a famous tree of this species growing near Bandar Abbas, under which the Bannians or Hindu traders settled at that port, had built a little pagoda. Doublet of bunnia.

Banyan in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

(India, Pakistan) A vest; an undershirt; a singlet.


BLA

(Pakistan) Initialism of Balochistan Liberation Army.


bailable

(of an offence) For which bail is permitted.

(specifically, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Malaysia) For which bail must be granted unless in special circumstances.


Angrez

From Hindustani انگریز / अंग्रेज़ (aṅgrez), from Portuguese inglês (“Englishman”). Doublet of English.

(North India, Pakistan, ethnic slur) An English person.


naik

From Sanskrit नायक (nāyaka, “leader, governor”).

cog

1888: Also, he had to keep his temper … especially once when he was abused by a Naik he had himself recruited from Isser Jang village — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's Sais’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 26)

non-commissioned officer
non-commissioned officer

(India, Pakistan, Nepal) A non-commissioned officer equivalent to corporal in a corps of Indian, Pakistani or Nepalese soldiers.


aapa

From Urdu آپا (āpā) / Bengali আপা (apa).

I am close to bhai and his wife Shaffo, whom I call aapa, who herself is a well-read person and a true soul-mate to her husband.

2006, Asha Ranawa, Woman's Triumph, page 46:

(Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, rare) A sister that is older than oneself; also used as a term of familiarity or respect toward a woman that is older.


PWA

Progressive Writers' Association
w:Progressive Writers' Association

(historical, India, Pakistan) Initialism of Progressive Writers' Association.


Talibanistan

(informal, offensive, Pakistan) Waziristan.


jadoo

From Hindustani जादू / جادو (jādū), from Classical Persian جَادُو (jādū).

Then, to encourage him further, I said that, if there was any jadoo afoot, I had not the least objection to giving it my countenance and sanction

2005 [1888], Rudyard Kipling, “In the House of Suddhoo”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, page 99:


HU

(Pakistan) Initialism of Hazara University.


khana

Borrowed from Hindustani کھانا (khānā) / खाना (khānā), from Sanskrit खादन (khādana), from खाद् (khād, “to eat”, root) + -अन (-ana), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kʰād-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷh₂ed-.


chowk

From Hindi चौक (cauk, “plaza, square, courtyard”), from Sanskrit चतुष्क (catuṣka, “quadrangular courtyard, crossway”).

der

(India, Pakistan) An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).

The all-important Jilmil bus was about to arrive at the chowk.

2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 61:

(India, Pakistan) A marketplace or open area in a city or village.


subadar

From Hindi सूबेदार (sūbedār)/Urdu صوبدار (sūbadār), and its source, (Indian) Persian صوبدار (subadâr), corresponding to subah + -dar.

noncommissioned officer
noncommissioned officer

(India, Pakistan, Nepal) A noncommissioned officer rank in the armies of India and Pakistan.


LPA

(uncountable, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) Initialism of lakhs per annum.


princely state

a political state, in the widest sense, which is ruled as or like a principality in the generic sense, regardless of the ruler's actual title and rank.

(more specifically, historical, India, Pakistan) a vassal state under the indirect rule of the British Raj, which is governed by an Indian ruler


PSDP

page 78: The current allocation from the Public Sector Development Plan (PSDP) for agriculture development projects is 0.45% only, which is less than Rs 500 million.

2001, Sohail Mahmood, The Musharraf regime and the governance crisis: a case study of the Government of Pakistan, Nova Publishers,, →ISBN:

page 88: The GOP must spend more on the public sector by increasing the allocations for the Public Sector Development Programs (PSDP). These PSDPs are financed out of the annual budget. However, the reality is different. Over the years, the PSDP has decreased rather than grown.

All these improvements gave us funds for projects in our Public Sector Development Program (PSDP). Between 1988 and 1999, PSDP remained stagnant between 90 billion and 110 billion rupees.

2006, Pervez Musharraf, In the Line of Fire: A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 187:

pages 43–44: The outlay for the Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) for 1999-2000 was fixed at only Rs125 billion, an increase of Rs.98 billion from the previous year. The last fiscal year’s PSDP had been increased to a massive Rs272 billion with a major share earmarked for extending infrastructure facilities that provide temporary jobs countrywide, social sectors and energy sectors. The current fiscal year’s PSDP has been increased even further.

2007, Sohail Mahmood, Good Governance Reform Agenda in Pakistan: Current Challenges, Nova Publishers,, →ISBN:

page 55: The Musharraf regime must spend more on the social sector by increasing the allocations for the Public Sector Development Programs (PSDP). These PSDPs were financed out of the annual budget.

Another good scheme The Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the fiscal year 2004–2005 has been increased to Rs.202 billion a 26 percent increase over last years PSDP of Rs.160 billion. Increased funds for PSDP mean enhanced public sector investment to generate employment thus raising overall growth.

2009, Aqila Khawaja, “Poverty and its Management in Pakistan”, chapter 8 of Amita Singh et al. (editors), Governance and Poverty Reduction: Beyond the Cage of Best Practices, PHI Learning Private Limited, 2009, page 119

(Pakistan) Initialism of Public Sector Development Programme, a function of the Planning Commission of Pakistan.


PAF

(Pakistan, military) Initialism of Pakistan Air Force.


dacoity

en-noun

dacoity (countable and uncountable, plural dacoities)

'He came here open-minded to commit a dacoity. Yes, to cut, rob, kill, and carry off what he desired.'

1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 15, in Kim:

[…] he had a most interesting anecdote to tell her […] about a dacoity that had happened in Sagaing in 1913.

1934, George Orwell, chapter 18, in Burmese Days:

(chiefly India, Pakistan, Myanmar) Violent robbery carried out by a dacoit or a gang of dacoits.


NRO

National Reconciliation Ordinance
w:National Reconciliation Ordinance

(Pakistan) Initialism of National Reconciliation Ordinance.


pagri

Borrowed from Hindustani पगड़ी (pagṛī) / پگڑی.

A pagri was a form of "illegal payment" that had developed to circumvent colonial rent restrictions. Landlords demanded a large lump-sum payment in lieu of the low monthly rent, and this also made it very difficult for refugees without means to rent houses in the city.

2010, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, chapter 2, in The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories, New York: Columbia University Press, page 64:

Simply defined, it means a landlord letting a ‘tenant’ use his property – forever in most cases – after receiving a “pagri,” an amount that is a little less than the prevailing market price. In return, the tenant pays a nominal monthly rent and stays on the premises for years on end without any fear of eviction. The property remains in landlord’s name and he continues to pay taxes on it.

2012 January 7, Kazim Alam, “Paperless pagri system still exists in old city areas”, in The Express Tribune:

(India, Pakistan) A payment made to secure the long-term rental of a property.


PNP

Press Network of Pakistan
w:Press Network of Pakistan

(Pakistan, media house) Initialism of Press Network of Pakistan.


PCT

Pakistan Cricket Team
w:Pakistan Cricket Team

(Pakistan) Abbreviation of Pakistan Cricket Team.


vakeel

From Urdu وکیل (vakīl) or Hindi वकील (vakīl), from Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl, “agent”).

(India, Pakistan) A native attorney, lawyer or agent.


lady's finger

Abelmoschus esculentus
Abelmoschus esculentus#Translingual

(chiefly India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei) Okra; an edible capsules of Abelmoschus esculentus.


lorry driver

(British, Ireland, India, Pakistan) A person employed to drive a lorry (truck).


baji

Borrowed from Urdu باجی (bājī), from Classical Persian باجی (bāji), from Ottoman Turkish باجی (bacı), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bāča.


bed tea

bed tea (countable and uncountable, plural bed teas)

The day was pretty fully taken up by a well-defined routine: 6 a.m. chota-hazri (bed tea and some fruit); seven to eight, riding, bath, then breakfast at nine. . . .

1955, S. K. Kirpalani, Fifty Years with the British, published 1993, →ISBN, page 92:

Bed tea or chota hazari (small breakfast), as we used to know it when I was a child in Calcutta during the last days of the raj, is one of the luxuries of my life in India.

1991, Mark Tully, No Full Stops in India (1992 Penguin edition), (Google preview)

His cap and white gloves were perfect whether he was delivering the bed tea at 8am or bringing me a china hot water bottle just before midnight.

1996 April 13, Justine Hardy, “Travel: That elusive, smart and affordable hotel is only just around the corner”, in The Independent", UK, retrieved 2014-03-24:

You'll be woken each morning with a tray of cookies and ‘bed-tea’, which is made using leaves plucked from the plantations outside your window.

2013 June 6, "India's Top Romantic Resorts: Glenburn Tea, Estate Darjeeling, India Times (retrieved 24 March 2014)

(India, Pakistan) A serving of tea shortly after awakening in the morning.


kitty party

(India, Pakistan) A regular party, usually organized by women, where each member contributes a certain sum of money.


ball pen

→ Japanese: ボールペン

→ Korean: 볼펜 (bolpen)

desc

→ Burmese: ဘောပင် (bhau:pang), ဘောလ်ပင် (bhaulpang)

→ Tagalog: bolpen

(Hong Kong, Pakistan, India, Philippines) Short for ballpoint pen.


nonbailable

(specifically, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Malaysia) In relation to an offence, not automatically eligible for bail.


bheestie

From Hindustani भिश्ती (bhiśtī) / بہشتی (bhiśtī, “heavenly”), from Persian بهشت (behešt, “heaven”).

(historical, India, Nepal, Pakistan) A water carrier, as to a household or a regiment.


NCC

National Cadet Corps
w:National Cadet Corps

(Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Maldives, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka) Initialism of National Cadet Corps.


mouza

(Bangladesh, Pakistan, West Bengal) An administrative district in parts of South Asia.


suo motu

(law, India, Pakistan) Synonym of sua sponte


ISI

Inter-Services Intelligence
Inter-Services Intelligence#English

(Pakistan) Abbreviation of Inter-Services Intelligence.


talab

Borrowed from Hindi तालाब (tālāb), from Persian تالاب (tâlâb).

Harish, whose foundation provides villages with some of the building costs for tankas and talabs, grins as she relates the story.

2009 September 13, Rick Westhead, “India: Will the tap run dry?”, in Toronto Star:

(Middle East, India, Pakistan) A pond for harvesting rainwater.


food street

(Pakistan) A street lined with food stalls, restaurants and other food shops.


PECA

Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act
w:PECA Ordinance

(Pakistan) Acronym of Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act.


chick-blinds

1895, Charlotte Maria Tucker, Letter to Miss 'Leila' Hamilton, in Agnes Giberne, The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker, London: Hodder and Stoughton, p. 206, https://books.google.ca/books?id=FbUOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
I have, however, "chick" blinds to my outer doors; these are made of thin split bamboos; and if I let them down, no one can see in.

Mirza Saeed drew up the chick blinds and fastened their cords.

1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Random House, published 2008, Part IV:

A slightly warm breeze came in the window from behind the chick-blinds which the gardener sprayed with water from the hose every fifteen minutes.

2009, Harold Bergsma, chapter 21, in The Opium Eaters, page 151:

(India, Pakistan, Malaysia) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.


PMA

Pakistan Military Academy
w:Pakistan Military Academy

(Pakistan, military) Initialism of Pakistan Military Academy.


chutiya

(India, Pakistan, slang, derogatory) asshole, idiot, stupid person.


gandu

He is less likely to be considered a gandu (since presumably he can satisfy himself carnally at will with his wife).

1997, Hasan Mujtaba, Stephen O. Murray, Will Roscoe, Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature, page 31:

Calling Nasim a gandu and declaring a jehad against gay Muslims, he allegedly lunged at Nasim while two restaurant employees tried to restrain him.

'I see you've put up a picture of Maggu Mahapatra and that gandu prince, what's his name, Tuttu...'

I am not here to disturb your honeymoon with that gandu-actor.

Mustafa renarrativized his heterosexuality by playing gay as a way to control and test how much of a "Gandu" or "Chakka" Khushaal was.

2015, Stanley I. Thangaraj, Desi Hoop Dreams, page 187:

(India, Pakistan, vulgar, slang, offensive) Someone who takes the passive role in anal sex.


NBP

National Bank of Pakistan
w:National Bank of Pakistan

(Pakistan) Abbreviation of National Bank of Pakistan.


behenchod

Borrowed from Hindustani بہن چود / बहनचोद (bahancod).

Oye behenchod, I'm warning you don't tell me what I can do, now I am only keeping you here...

2012, Vikrant Khanna, The India I Dream of…, →ISBN, page 170:

FYI, this is not a prison, behenchod, but a training centre,' I shouted, tembling with rage.

"Stop smiling you behenchod..." I shout.

2017, Azar, The Journalist & 2 Shades of Grey, →ISBN:

(South Asia, chiefly North India, Pakistan, offensive) Sisterfucker.


KPK

(Pakistan) Initialism of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.


chargesheet

(India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) A document of accusation prepared by law enforcement to be submitted to the court.


chargesheet

en-verb

chargesheet (third-person singular simple present chargesheets, present participle chargesheeting, simple past and past participle chargesheeted)

chargesheets (present singular third-person)
chargesheeting (participle present)
chargesheeted (participle past)
chargesheeted (past)

(transitive, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) To prepare such a document of accusation against.


inspite

(Pakistan) Despite, irrespective of, notwithstanding.


shaadi

Borrowed from Hindustani शादी / شادی (śādī), from Persian شادی (šâdi), from Old Persian shiyâti.

After my shaadi, I packed away those times. My duty was to my husband—and my three boys, also.

2012, Tarquin Hall, The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken: A Vish Puri Mystery, page 234:


nikahnama

(India, Pakistan) An Islamic matrimonial deed, setting out the partners' rights to divorce, polygamy, etc.


tamashbeen

Borrowed from Hindi तमाशबीन (tamāśbīn)/Urdu تماشبین. From तमाशा (tamāśā, “spectacle”) + -बीन (-bīn, suffix concerning vision), from Persian تماشا + بین.

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Urdu تماشبین

The police stood by like tamashbeens (spectators) watching the carnage. They had been tipped off not to interfere but let looters and killers teach hapless men, women and children a lesson they would never forget.

2017, Khushwant Singh, The End of India:

(India, Pakistan) spectator; onlooker; sightseer


gori

(North India, Pakistan, British India, elsewhere slang, ethnic slur) A white woman.


bhai

bhais (plural)
Bangladesh (Pakistan)
Hinglish (Pakistan)
Benglish (Pakistan)

PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
Transliteration of Hindustani بھائی (bhāī) / भाई (bhāī) and other South Asian languages, ultimately from Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ). Doublet of brother, pal, frater, and friar.


MCB

Muslim Commercial Bank
w:Muslim Commercial Bank

(Pakistan) Initialism of Muslim Commercial Bank.


give way sign

(British, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Nigeria, Nepal, Jamaica, Barbados, Israel, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Pakistan, India, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Fiji, Ghana, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Kenya, Malta, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zimbabwe) a road sign which instructs road users to give right of way to other traffic

Bermuda; Ghana; Isle of Man; Solomon Islands; Tanzania; Bermuda; Ghana; Isle of Man; Solomon Islands; Tanzania


Hunza water

(Pakistan, slang) moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink


mussuck

From Urdu مشک (maśak) / Hindi मशक (maśak), from Persian مشک (mašk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mšk' /mašk/), from Old Persian 𐎶𐏁𐎣𐎠 (m-š-k-a /maškā/), via Aramaic or another descendant of Proto-Semitic *mašk- (“skin”).

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In that form of sunstroke where the person is struck down suddenly by a hot sun, the patient should be removed into the shade, and the douche of cold water being allowed to fall in a stream on the head and body, from a pump (or, as in India, from the mussuck, or other similar contrivance should be freely resorted to, the object being two-fold: to reduce the temperature of the over-heated centres, and to rouse them into action. During the assault on the White House piquet in the last Burmese war, numbers of men were struck down by the direct action of the sun during the month of April. They were laid out perfectly unconscious, in their red coats and stocks (they wore them in those days, 1852), but were recovered by the cold douche freely applied by the mussuck over the head and body.

1876 Joseph Fayrer, The London Medical Record vol. 4 page 183 = The Practitioner vol. 16 page 183

We had what was to us an extraordinary and fascinating experience in this trip of going down the Ravi River through strong rapids on mussucks, or inflated cowskins, and it was indeed a delightful river voyage of fifty miles through splendid hill scenery.

1907, Owen Tudor Burne, Memories, London: Edward Arnold, page 125:

(historical, Pakistan, India) an inflated skin-bag for water, variously given as from goats, from cows or from dogs, often by bheesties


departmental store

en-noun

departmental store (plural departmental stores)

AEON Co (M) Bhd, the operator for the Japanese-owned hypermarket chain, had downsized its departmental store areas in several locations and refurbished the stores to concentrate on food items.

2019 July 15, Shaheera Aznam Shah, “Hypermarkets face a bleak future on waning appetite”, in The Malaysian Reserve:

The liquidator of the famed Robinson's departmental store has vehemently rebutted any inappropriate retrenchment of its employees, following the closing of its business, recently.

2021 January 26, Adrian David, “Robinson's liquidator rebutts inappropriate retrenchment allegations”, in New Straits Times:

(India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) department store


pink tea

pink tea (countable and uncountable, plural pink teas)

From pink (“pale red; (rare) fashionable, smart”) + tea (“drink made by infusing dried leaves or buds of the tea plant in hot water; light midafternoon meal”).

compound

Coordinate term: red tea

(uncountable, India, Pakistan) A hot drink from the Indian subcontinent with a pink colour, made with gunpowder tea, baking soda, and milk.

վարդագույն թեյ

hot drink from the Indian subcontinent with a pink colour made with gunpowder tea, baking soda, and milk


khurli

(India, Pakistan) A manger or trough for cattle, made from mud.


lalkara

(Pakistan) A cry of threat or challenge.


peeloo

Salvadora persica
Salvadora persica#Translingual

(India, Pakistan) Salvadora persica (toothbrush tree).


sattu

Borrowed from Hindi सत्तू (sattū), from Sanskrit सक्तु (saktu).

(India, Pakistan) Flour made from a mixture of ground pulses and cereals.


ajinomoto

monosodium glutamate
monosodium glutamate

(Singapore, India, Myanmar, Brunei, Malaysia, Pakistan) monosodium glutamate


AJK

Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Azad Jammu and Kashmir

(abbreviation, Pakistan) Azad Jammu and Kashmir


chuhra

From Hindustani چُوہْڑا (cūhṛā) / चूहड़ा (cūhṛā).

Saai

people of Jesus; labourer; sweeper; Pakistani slur against Christians, meaning but also as or

(India, Pakistan, offensive) Any lower-caste person.

"During a heated discussion of the budget, Abbasi called me churha (low caste). This is an insult to all religious minorities in Pakistan. His leader is also prejudiced. We only accept a Pakistan where there is no discrimination of color, cast [sic] or faith," said Tariq Gill, the Christian parliamentary secretary for human rights and minorities.

2018, Kamran Chaundhry, UCA Newshttps://www.ucanews.com/news/pakistani-politician-draws-censure-for-christian-slur/82356

(Pakistan, Christianity, ethnic slur, religious slur, offensive) A Hindu or (especially) a Christian convert from a lower caste.


PIMS

w:Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences

(Pakistan) Acronym of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.


gora complex

(India, Pakistan, ethnic slur) An inferiority complex of South Asians with respect to white people.


Endia

(Pakistan, derogatory, offensive, slang) India.


IOK

(Pakistan) Initialism of Indian-occupied Kashmir. The disputed union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, also including the nearby union territory of Ladakh, in northern India.


namazi

From Urdu نماز (namāz), Urdu نمازی (namāzī), and their source, Persian نماز (namâz).

(India, Pakistan, Islam) A devout Muslim.

(India, Pakistan, Islam, Internet slang, derogatory) A Muslim, especially a bigot or a religious extremist.


gunta

(India, Pakistan) A measure of land area, 1/40 of an acre.


Nizam-e-Mustafa

From Urdu نظام مصطفى, made of Arabic نظام (“law, order”) and Arabic مصطفى (“the Chosen One [by God], a title for the Prophet Muhammad”). Literally means "the order of the Chosen One".

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Urdu نظام مصطفى

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the Chosen One 􂀿by God􂁀, a title for the Prophet Muhammad

(Islam, Pakistan, India) the ideal society, ethics, and social norms of the Prophet Muhammad.


outrage of modesty

en-noun

outrage of modesty (countable and uncountable, plural outrages of modesty)

(criminal law, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Pakistan) molestation; indecent assault, especially against women


wazukhana

From Hindi वज़ूख़ाना (vazūxānā) / Urdu وضو خانا (vazūxānā, “washing court”), from वज़ू (vazū) / وضو (vazū, “washing, wudu”) + ख़ाना (xānā) / خانا (xānā, “court”).

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Hindi वज़ूख़ाना (vazūxānā)

(India, Pakistan, Islam) a pool in a mosque where worshippers wash themselves as wudu before praying.


sar tan se juda

From Urdu سر تن سے جدا (sar tan seh judā, “separate the head from the body; beheading”), سر (“head”) + تن (“body”) + سے (se, “from”) + جدا (“separate”). Shortening of Urdu گستاخ رسول کی ایک ہی سزا سر تن سے جدا (Gustākh-e-Rasūl kī ek hī sazā, sar tan sē judā, “there is only one punishment for insulting the Prophet, cut the head from the body”).

سر تن سے جدا

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گستاخ رسول کی ایک ہی سزا سر تن سے جدا

2022, Firstpost.comhttps://www.firstpost.com/india/know-origin-of-sar-tan-se-juda-indias-anti-hindu-war-cry-after-nupur-sharmas-controversial-remark-on-prophet-muhammad-11024041.html
‘Sar tan se juda’ is not a new outcry in India. It was first used widely about 5 years ago, when Kamlesh Tiwari of Lucknow gave a statement about Pangbar Mohammad.

This came after protests led by Syed Abdahu Kashaf, an influencer and self-proclaimed social and civil rights activist, who has now defended using the "sar tan se juda" slogan.

(India, Pakistan, Islam) A slogan calling for the killing of blasphemers against Islam.


PIPS

w:Pakistan International Public Schools and College

(Pakistan) Acronym of Pakistan International Public Schools and College.

w:Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services

(Pakistan) Acronym of Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services.


PTV

Pakistan Television
w:Pakistan Television

(Pakistan) Abbreviation of Pakistan Television.


Ramzan

Borrowed from Hindustani रमज़ान (ramzān) / رمضان (ramzān) / Bengali রমজান (romzan) and other South Asian languages, from Classical Persian رمضان (ramazān), from Arabic رَمَضَان (ramaḍān).

In Hyderabad, the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee meets on the 29th of Ramzan to declare when Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated. Their decision is based on the sighting of the crescent.

2023 April 18, Sameer Khan, “Know Eid-ul-Fitr holidays in Telangana”, in The Siasat Daily:

(South Asia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) Alternative form of Ramadan.


fauj

Borrowed from Hindustani فَوج (fauj) / फ़ौज (fauj), from Classical Persian فَوْج (fawj), from Arabic فَوْج (fawj).


HMPS

en-noun

HMPS (usually uncountable, plural HMPSs or HMPSes)

(Pakistan, nautical, military, historical) Abbreviation of His/Her Majesty's Pakistani Ship. of the 1947-1957 Royal Pakistani Navy


Pakistan Zindabad

Borrowed from Urdu پاکِسْتان زِنْدَہ باد (pākistān zinda-bād), from پاکِسْتان (pākistān, “Pakistan”) and زِنْدَہ باد (zinda-bād, “long live”).

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پاکِسْتان زِنْدَہ باد

(Pakistan, politics) “Long Live Pakistan”, a patriotic slogan used to celebrate Pakistan.


bag gas

(Pakistan) Natural gas for use as fuel in the home which has been stored in an inflated plastic bag as form of improvised storage device, with the bag being disconnected and refilled as needed; especially such gas which has to be carried some distance back to the home in the bag.