Haafiz--the one who protects
The trilateral root ‘ha-fi-za’ in Arabic means to protect, preserve, guard or...
Kamaal--the State of Perfection
Ka-ma-la, the Arabic trilateral root for ‘perfection’. Most Hindi/Urdu speakers are familiar...
Four Strategies for Building your Vocabulary in a Foreign Language
The task of learning, memorising, and eventually using new words in a...
The morphological tripod - Arabic roots 101
This article is a sister article to the earlier 101 articles treating features...
The Economy of Words: Sustainable Vocabulary Learning
The Hindi word for dictionary, शब्दकोश (śabdkośa), literally means word-chest. Apart from accurately...
Meaning and Expression: Sanskrit Suffixes 101
“Without your love, I’m like a song without words, just like a...
The multiplication of meanings: Sanskrit prefix 101
The mother-tongue of all Indo-European languages was a root-based language,...
Sanskrit words for animals: haikus of first impressions
Sanskrit has many words for animals and trees that do nothing else...
विद्यार्थी (vidyārthī) and अध्यापक (adhyāpaka) = student and teacher ... or not?
To students who are new to Hindi, terms such as विद्यार्थी...