Legacy Meaning in Urdu:
In recent years, in particular in urbanized India, the usage of Urdu has become more commonplace and there has been a marked upsurge in the way it is used in the English language. It has become quite clear that Urdu has a distinctive legacy meaning in English as there are distinct changes that happen when the Urdu words come into contact with the English ones. Most recently in UK this phenomenon has become evident when the term 'parachinar' is commonly used. In South Asia, it is very common to use Urdu words in Hindi to mean a little shop or a grocer in the UK. There are many other examples of this phenomenon, which are based on British English speakers who have begun to have a profound impact on their peers in the UK and of course in India. There are in fact several highly-regarded Urdu dictionaries which provide an English translation of the Urdu term for many common British terms. One of the most important areas of the Urdu lexicon that is not being tal...