As time changes, language keeps evolving and changing. With the millennial era upon us, there seems to be a vast difference in the daily lingo being spoken.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has always kept us with incorporating various popular words into the dictionary which are not only from the English Language but have been used extensively from other languages like German, Spanish, Greek, Urdu, Hindi, Tamil, French etc. Not only these, Oxford has also added words from local languages like Gujarati too.
A new addition has been made to the dictionary with the ‘slang’ word ‘Jugaad’ which is popular in the subcontinent. The word has been officially recognized in the latest version of the dictionary.
Jugaad is listed as a noun and the meaning is described as:
“Involving the use of skills and imagination to find an easy way to solve the problem or too fix or make something using cheap basic items and methods.”
Other interesting words from the Urdu and Hindi Dialect have also been added in the September revision of the Oxford Dictionary.
Here’s a list of Some of the Words:
Abba – Father
Accha – Okay
Bhindi – Vegetable
Gosht – Meat
Nai – Barber
Bapu – Father
Bada Din – Auspicious day
The World English Editor for Oxford Dictionary, Danica Salazar mentioned,
“Indian speech etiquette features a complex system of kinship terms and terms of address, in which age, gender, status, and family relationships are marked by a highly specific vocabulary with no direct equivalents in English. This lexical gap is filled by borrowing such words from Indian languages or adapting existing English words.”
The September 2017 update also includes words like worstest and fungivorous.
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