Zubane: Hindi-Urdu Dictionary

Words, scripts, songs & sound

Free

One dot changes everything. A field guide to the words Hindi and Urdu share with Persian, Arabic, and Sanskrit. Plus the scripts, songs, and sounds that carry them. Har zubaan ek pul hai. Every language is a bridge. Zubane is a field guide to the Hindi–Urdu language continuum — the words it borrowed, the two scripts that write it, and the songs and sounds that carry it. Beautiful, precise, and honest about what it doesn't know. A THOUSAND WORDS, BUILT IN A dictionary of the 1000 most common Hindustani words, each in Devanagari and true Nastaliq with its meaning, origin, grammatical gender, and the surprising list of languages that share it — from Turkish to Swahili to Indonesian. It works offline, and it's honest: where scholars disagree about a word's origin, the entry says so instead of guessing. ASK ZUBANE ANYTHING Type any Hindi–Urdu word and get the same full treatment, generated on the spot — scripts, origin, and story. Clearly labeled as AI-generated, with a tap to flag anything that reads wrong. Saved to your own list for next time. SONG BREAKDOWNS Type a Hindi–Urdu song and get its language DNA: where its words come from, what the poetry means, and the film, composer, and lyricist behind it — plus one-tap links to find it on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube. Original commentary, never reproduced lyrics. HEAR IT SAID PROPERLY Every word carries a pronunciation button backed by studio-quality neural voices, each word routed to the voice that says it best. Articles read themselves aloud, too, with a player you can pause, scrub, and speed up. THE NUQTA FILES One dot changes everything. A full 50-letter chart pairs each Devanagari letter with its Nastaliq counterpart and its sound, and shows how Devanagari writes borrowed sounds with a single fragile dot while Nastaliq gives each its own letter — a difference that may be quietly steering how millions of people speak. ESSAYS, WORD OF THE DAY, PRACTICE Short, sharp articles on sound change in progress. A new word every day. Quick quiz rounds on meanings and origins. YOURS, IN YOUR LANGUAGE Run the whole app in English, हिन्दी, or اردو — with full right-to-left for Urdu — and light or dark throughout. No account. No ads. No tracking. The dictionary, scripts, articles, and quiz work fully offline; the AI lookups, song breakdowns, and pronunciation audio use an internet connection. Zubane, meaning "languages," is built on a simple premise: people who discover how much vocabulary they already share stop seeing strangers and start seeing cousins.

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  • Nipun Dubey
Size
  • 1.7 MB
Category
  • Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
4+
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