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 _____.
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 _____.
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