[spectre] (fwd) Sameeta Ahmed: Word from Urdu language

[Andreas Broeckmann]

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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:01:28 +0500
From: "Sameeta Ahmed" <sameetaahmed at gmail.com>
To: SPECTRE at mikrolisten.de
Subject: Word from Urdu language


Here is an entry from Pakistan in the Urdu language:

"HUMZUN"= feminist.
(there has been no one word for feminist in the Urdu language before; 
the English word was used instead. I have come up with this one: 
'Hum' means 'same', 'with', ('homo')[derived from Persian; and 'Zun' 
is a word for woman [also derived from Persian]. The connecting of 
these two creates a symbiosis that connotes solidarity between women 
and with women, reagardless of one's gender.

Sameeta Ahmed