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riahi on April 23, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: 101 Indians make it to Google Summer of Code 2009 ...

Donyaa means world in Persian, which was the first language of the Mughal Empire. The word then spread throughout Urdu and a variety of other Indian languages.

mahmud on April 23, 2009 [–]

grep -in "fil duniya wa akhira" /home/god/pub/quran.txt

Dunia is one of the most repeated words in the Quran. duniya, salam, rahma, akhira, salat/salawat, anbiya/rusul, etc.

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