Urdu Gah is one of the highest-rated Urdu apps on Google Play Store.

It is a webview application of the first Urdu website which can be accessed on an Urdu address, اردو.com. As the largest personal Urdu blog on the internet, it contains texts and multimedia divided into multiple sections.

You may be wondering... Why Urdu Gah?
Well, it’s simple.

You can now listen to audio-literature with the authentic accent and standard pronunciations. You can now learn prosody, allowing for a better understanding of the Urdu language. You can now explore the deep meanings, rich history, original stories and correct usage of various proverbs. Urdu Gah has no objective besides providing a service from which you can benefit. Prestigious institutions from across the globe recognize this, recommending Urdu Gah for their students.

Read Urdu? Read Urdu Gah!

First developed in the 12th Century, Urdu was used as the mode of language after the Muslim conquest. The original forms of work by which Urdu was communicated were folk songs, riddles and couplets. The traditional way. However, Urdu wasn’t always known as Urdu. It was commonly referred to as Hindvi and Hindi. Evidence even suggests that during some period of time during the late 17th century, it was referred to as Hindustani. However, the distinction between Urdu and Hindi is quite big. Despite being part of the same phonetic and grammatical family, the lexicon in which they are written is contrasting. Hindi derives its lexicon from Sanskrit, whereas Urdu is a mix of Arabic and Persian. The deep-rooted history of Urdu and its journey through time is of great mystery and appreciation to us. As a result, we built Urdu Gah, the world’s largest personal collection of Urdu works on the internet. We want people to appreciate the Urdu language in what we see as the purest form, written works. These works span a long period of time and reflect the ideas in the society they lived in. Now with the ability of technology, we are on a mission to educate and sustain the Urdu language and all the works within it.

What to expect?

1. e-Books (Adab-e-Aailya/Kitaben – Typed Unicode text of the best of classical Urdu literature)
2. Audiobooks (Lehja – A collection of poetry and prose read aloud by Raheel Farooq)
3. Urdu to Urdu Dictionary (Farhang-e-Asifiya – Abridged version of Urdu’s first and most notable dictionary. Searchable, typed, Unicode text entries)
4. Proverbs (Zarbul Amsaal/Kahawaten – Famous Urdu, Hindi, Persian and Arabic proverbs with meaning and explanation)
5. Orthography (Imla Nama – An authentic document describing the rules of standard Urdu spelling. By Dr. Gopi Chand Narang)
6. Idioms (Muhawarat – Contents of Dr. Ishrat Jahan Hashmi’s valuable book on the meaning, culture and context of Urdu idioms)
7. Prosody (Arooz – The art of versification. Learn how to become a poet)
8. Poetry (Shayari – Urdu poetry by Raheel Farooq)
9. Prose (Nasr – Essays, articles, stories and statuses by Raheel Farooq)
10. Quotes (Aqwal-e-Zarreen – Most famous sayings and quotations of all times translated into Urdu)

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