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- Punjabi · borrowed fromشاہ مُکھی
- English todayShahmukhi
From Punjabi شاہ مُکھی (śāh mukhī) / ਸ਼ਾਹਮੁਖੀ (śāhmukhī, “from the Shah's Mouth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A variant of the Urdu script, based on the Nastaliq style of the Persian script and adopted to write the Punjabi language in the Punjab region of Pakistan. Full definition →
From Punjabi شاہ مُکھی (śāh mukhī) / ਸ਼ਾਹਮੁਖੀ (śāhmukhī, “from the Shah's Mouth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.