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Cultural Life

Explore Urdu words for festivals, family, music and food. Every word comes with its script, a transliteration to help you say it, and the English meaning.

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Cultural Life 🎉

Cultural life is about **festivals, family, food, music and traditions**. In this module you will learn the key Urdu words for them. Urdu is written **right to left** in a flowing script. Every word below is shown with its **script**, a **transliteration** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English** meaning.

Key words (1) 🗂️

Learn these four cultural words:

Match each word to its meaning

  • تہوار (tehvar)
  • خاندان (khandan)
  • موسیقی (musiqi)
  • کھانا (khana)
  • festival
  • family
  • music
  • food

What does it mean?

What does the Urdu word موسیقی (musiqi) mean?

  • music
  • food
  • family
  • festival

Key words (2) 🎵

Now four more words about celebrations:

Match each word to its meaning

  • رقص (raqs)
  • روایت (riwayat)
  • گانا (gana)
  • جشن (jashn)
  • dance
  • tradition
  • song
  • celebration

Cultural life

Select the TWO things that are part of cultural life.

  • Celebrating festivals with family
  • Enjoying music and dance
  • Ignoring all traditions
  • Never celebrating anything

Choose the Urdu word

In Urdu, the word for 'family' is _____, and the word for 'music' is _____.

خاندان (khandan) موسیقی (musiqi) تہوار (tehvar) کھانا (khana) رقص (raqs) گانا (gana)

A flowing script 💡

Urdu is written **right to left** in a flowing script derived from Arabic. Urdu shares words with **Persian, Arabic and Hindi**, but it is its own language. The **transliteration** in brackets is a pronunciation guide. Festivals such as **عید (Eid)** bring families together with food, music and celebration.

A special day

What does the Urdu word تہوار (tehvar) mean?

  • festival
  • homework
  • school
  • the weather

Cultural life in action

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One more

The Urdu word for 'food' is _____, and the word for 'festival' is _____.

کھانا (khana) تہوار (tehvar) خاندان (khandan) رقص (raqs) موسیقی (musiqi) گانا (gana)

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