اردو

• اوردو (ordu)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“army camp”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰆𐰺𐰑𐰆 (ordu), Azerbaijani ordu, Bashkir урда (urda), Kazakh орда (orda), Kyrgyz ордо (ordo), Turkmen orda, Uyghur ئوردا (orda), Uzbek orda and Yakut ордуу (orduu).

اردو • (ordu) (definite accusative اردویی (orduyu), plural اردولر (ordular))

1. military camp, a temporary military base provided with tents for the lodging of an army

   Synonym: اردوگاه (ordugâh)

2. (by extension) army, a highly organized military force, concerned mainly with ground operations

   Synonyms: جند (cünd), جیش (ceyiş), چری (çeri), عسكر (ʼasker), لشكر (leşker)

• > Turkish: ordu (inherited)
• → Albanian: hordhi
• → Northern Kurdish: ordî
• → Arabic: عُرْضِيّ (ʕurḍiyy)
  • → Amharic: ዕርድ (ʿərd)
  • → Tigre: ዕርዲ (ʿərdi)
  • → Tigrinya: ዕርዲ (ʿərdi)

اردو • (ordu)

1. Ordu (a city and province in the East Black Sea region, Turkey)

   Synonym: بایراملی (bayramlı) (obsolete)

• Turkish: Ordu

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اردو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 34
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ordu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3628
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اردو”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 22a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اردو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 67
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Castra”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 158
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اردو”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 139
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ordu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Ordu”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اردو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 65
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Ordu”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[6], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 589

Derived from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“army, camp”) (see Azerbaijani ordu, Turkish ordu, Turkmen orda). Compare horde.

اردو • (ordu) (plural اردوها)

1. horde
2. (Iran) camping
3. (Dari) army

• اردو زدن (ordu zadan, “to camp”)
• اردوگاه (ordugâh, “camp, campsite”)

اُرْدو • (ordu)

1. Urdu

اُرْدو • (ordu)

1. Urdu

• زبان اردو (zabân-e ordu)

• Dari: اردو (urdū)
• Iranian Persian: اردو (ordu)
• Tajik: урду (urdu), Урду (Urdu)
• → Bengali: উর্দু (urdu)
• → Gujarati: ઉર્દૂ (urdū)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: उर्दू (urdū)

  Urdu: اُرْدُو (urdū)

  • → English: Urdu
• → Kannada: ಉರ್ದೂ (urdū)
• → Marathi: उर्दू (urdū)
• → Nepali: उर्दु (urdu), उर्दू (urdū)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਉਰਦੂ (uradū)

  Shahmukhi script: اُرْدُو (urdū)

• → Telugu: ఉర్దూ (urdū)

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ʊɾ.d̪uː/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -uː

Shortened from اُرْدُوْئے مُعَلّیٰ (urdū-e mu'allā), from Middle Hindi زُبانِ اُرْدُوْئے مُعَلّیٰ (zubān-i urdū-e mu'allā), borrowed from Classical Persian زُبَانِ اُرْدُویِ مُعَلّیٰ (zubān-i urdū-yi mu'allā, “language of the royal camp”).

اُرْدُو • (urdū) f (Hindi spelling उर्दू)

1. the Urdu language

   کْیا آپ اُرْدُو بولْتے ہَیں؟

   kyā āp urdū bolte ha͠i?

   Do you speak Urdu?

2. (historical, obsolete) Rekhta (the Hindustani language)

Borrowed from Classical Persian اردو (urdū), from Turkic.

اُرْدُو • (urdū) f (Hindi spelling उर्दू)

1. (military, rare) army, camp

   Synonym: لَشْکَر (laśkar)

• “اردو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “اردو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.