The story
- Proto-Turkic · derived from*ordu“army, camp”
- Classical Persian · derived fromاُرْدُو
- Hindi · borrowed fromउर्दू
- Urdu · borrowed fromاُرْدُو
- Hindustani · borrowed from
- English todayUrdu
Borrowed from Hindustani (see Urdu اُرْدُو (urdū) and Hindi उर्दू (urdū)), from Classical Persian اُرْدُو (urdū), from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“army, camp”) ( > Azerbaijani ordu, Turkish ordu, Turkmen oorda). Doublet of horde and orda.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Turkic*ordu all →
hordeorda
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.