Sayyid Ahmad Dehlavi

Muraqqa-e-Zaban-o-Bayan-e-Dehli (A Portrait of the Language and Speech of Delhi)

رسالہ نذر آصف یعنی مرقع زبان و بیان دہلی

Sayyid Ahmad Dehlavi

How did the begums of the Red Fort talk, and how did the women of the city answer them? What did Delhi's fruit-sellers cry in the streets, and how did the last Mughal princes fight their quails, fly their pigeons and kites, and hold their festival courts? Written in 1915–16 by Sayyid Ahmad Dehlavi, compiler of the Farhang-e-Asafiya dictionary, this short book sets out the Urdu of Delhi before 1857, with long lists of women's idioms, and surrounds it with vivid scenes and anecdotes of old Delhi and the court of Bahadur Shah Zafar, ending with letters of praise from Akbar Allahabadi, Maulvi Abdul Haq and others. Complete Urdu text from Wikisource with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Sayyid Ahmad Dehlavi, Muraqqa-e-Zaban-o-Bayan-e-Dehli, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/muraqqa-e-zaban-o-bayan-e-dehli. The first two chapters are free to read.

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