IT must have been someone with a bureaucratic bent of mind who coined the expression “collateral damage” for civilians killed in a war. And how naughty was the one who concocted the interesting ...

In English, ‘buggy’ means ‘a small car, often without roof or doors, used for a particular purpose’, says Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. We have heard of garden buggy, golf buggy and beach ...

KARACHI: It took half a century to put together, but finally, the Urdu Dictionary Board has unveiled its 22-volume Urdu Lughat that contains the meaning of every single word in the language. It has ...

NEW DELHI: Aspiring English poets have multiple online resources telling them how to write a sonnet, haiku or limerick but those aspiring to pen Urdu verse have just the Qaafiya Dictionary to help ...

An image from a winter morning in Hyderabad, Pakistan, when I was four, forms my earliest memory of literacy. Bundled up in layers of sweaters, I am reciting from an Urdu newspaper as I sit astride my ...

From endearing words like ‘Abba’ and ’Anna’ to Indian delicacies like ‘gulab jamun’ and ‘vada’ can now be found in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). As per the latest list of inclusions, 70 new ...