Can you name the Country Names in Urdu? by faraznaeem

Urdu name	English name
Bharat (بھارت)
Urdun (اردن)
Misr (مصر )
Hispaniya (ہسپانیہ )
Marakesh (مراکش)
Roos (روس )
Cheen (چين)
Shaam (شام)
Filpaeen (فلپائن)
Aljazair (الجزائر )
Anglistan (انگلستان)
Yunaan (یونان )

Urdu name	English name
Janoobi Afreeka (جنوبی افریقہ)
Maldeep (مالدیپ)
Qibris (قبرص)
Maqdoniya (مقدونیہ )
Majaristan (مجارستان )
Toonis (تونس‎)
Arjantain (ارجنٹائن )
Kot Davooagh (کوت داوواغ)
Ittehad Al-Qamri (اتحاد القمری)
Lubnaan (لبنان)
Jazair Sulayman( جزائر سلیمان)
Riyasat-hae Muttahida (ریاستہائے متحدہ)

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Country Names in Urdu Quiz

by faraznaeem

Created Jan 14, 2011 in Language
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	satyadasa:	Jan 15th, 2011 at 05:29 GMT	2 points
	Shukriya, faraznaeem! I like it. Good combination of Urdu-specific terms, terms that one might get from Arabic, and old Persian-influenced forms. Also, may God improve the mind of the first annoying person who posts "England is not a country."

	faraznaeem:	Jan 15th, 2011 at 08:02 GMT	1 point
	Thanks Satyadasa! Appreciate it. Just a fun quiz, that's all.

	ulashima:	Jan 15th, 2011 at 13:39 GMT	2 points
	If UK and England is used interchangeably in Urdu, that makes sense. What caught my attention was the usage of one city of the country used for the whole country in two answers.

	dancastro:	Jan 15th, 2011 at 19:49 GMT	2 points
	How did 50% get Shaam? Some names (Bharat, Misr, Urdun) are the country names in their own language, Kot Davooagh is a phonetic transcription, Yunaan is from Ionian and Majaristan from Magyar. Even in Jazair Sulayman (with only 9% of correct answers) it isn't so hard to guess that Sulayman means Solomon. But what is the clue for getting Shaam -> Syria?

	faraznaeem:	Jan 16th, 2011 at 02:15 GMT	2 points
	I am guessing because Shaam is a common name for Damascus.. and Bilad al-Sham is Greater Syria (Levant) in Arabic.

	ulashima:	Jan 16th, 2011 at 13:33 GMT	2 points
	That's one city I mentioned. Şam means Damascus in Turkish. There's another thing that might be interesting: Tripoli is named Trablus in Turkish (loaned from Arabic) but since there are two Tripolis, one in Libya and one in Lebanon, the common practice in here at least is to call the one in Libya as "Trablusgarp" (the Tripoli on the West), and the one in Lebanon as "Trablusşam" (the Tripoli close to Damascus). This possibly is an Arabic loan also.

	faraznaeem:	Jan 17th, 2011 at 01:25 GMT	1 point
	always learn new stuff on sporcle. thanks ulashima