Etymology | MCQs

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An anagram is a word formed by rearranging the letters of another word.

"Cat" is an anagram of "Act" because both have the same letters in a different order.

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The word Data is a Latin word.

Data means اعدادو شمار

Datum in singular form.

Data is a plural form.

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Cognates are words in different languages with a common origin or etymological root.

They often look similar and have similar meanings due to their shared ancestry.

For example,

the English word "mother" and the German word "Mutter" are cognates

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• The holy land is the meaning of Pakistan
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• The word Pakistan consists of two parts, i.e., Pak and Istan.
  
• While Pak is a Persian word,
  
• the word Pakistan means a holy/ pure/ clean place (country) and not the 'Land of the Pure'
•  the word Istan is from the word isthan, which is a Hindi word meaning a place.
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• The word Pakistan was firstly introduced in now or never in 1933 by Choudhry Rahmat Ali.

  Now or never was a pamphlet, referring to the names of the five northern regions of British India: Punjab, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Sindh and Baluchistan. 

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mean by preposterous: مضحکہ خیز

contrary to nature, reason, or common sense 

 reasonable  mean: معقول

1 intelligent, judicious, wise, equitable. 2 equitable, fair, just.

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know

جانتے ہیں

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The adjective archaic means something that belongs to an earlier .

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Untoward ناخوشگوار

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Tsunami is a Japanese word with the English translation, "harbour wave."