From endearing words like 'abba' and 'anna' to Indian delicacies like 'gulab jamun' and 'vada', as many as 70 new Indian words from the Telugu, Urdu, Tamil, Hindi and Gujarati languages have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
Several most-commonly used words in India like 'jugaad', 'dadagiri', 'achcha', 'bapu' and 'surya namaskar' are also now part of the dictionary, the OED said in a statement.
Many of the words describe food and relationships, such as 'anna' (elder brother), 'abba' (father), 'gulab jamun', 'mirch masala', 'keema', 'funda' and 'chamcha'. Oftenused terms like `timepass', `natak' and `chup' also have their meanings in the dictionary now.
The September 2017 update adds to the 900 items already covered by the dictionary and “identified as distinctive to Indian English“.
The words were added to the dictionary as Indians have “a highly specific vocabulary with no direct equivalents in English“, the OED said.
