taqaza
8 synonyms for taqaza, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — In Urdu and Hindi, a demand or pressing request, especially a repeated reminder that a debt or promised duty should now be settled.
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1. noun Urdu/Hindi
In Urdu and Hindi, a demand or pressing request, especially a repeated reminder that a debt or promised duty should now be settled.
“The shopkeeper sent his boy round with a taqaza for last month's bill.”
2. noun Urdu/Hindi
What a situation, age or occasion requires; its natural demand.
“Waqt ka taqaza — 'the demand of the times' — is a common phrase in Urdu speech and journalism.”
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An Urdu and Hindi word; appears in English writing about South Asia and in South Asian English.
Etymology
From Arabic taqāḍī, 'mutual claiming, demanding settlement', from the root q-ḍ-y relating to settling and discharging obligations; it entered Urdu and Hindi through Persian.
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