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kiskā ha?
                                       will you be a witness for me?
               why? kyō?
                                       merī gavāhī dege?
                why not? kyō nahī?    woman awrat           English
               wide chawrā            worm kīrā
               wife: my wife merī bībī  wonderful bahut barhiyā  š
               will*: will you do it for me? kyā   won’t*: it won’t start ye chālu
                mere liye ye kar dege?  nahī hōtā
               wind (noun) tez havā    see not              Hindi/Urdu
               window khirkī          wood (material) lakrī
                near the window khirkī ke   (forest) jangal
                pās                   wool ūn
                in the window (of shop) khirkī  word shabd (H), lafz (U)
                me                    workk (noun) kām
               window seat khirkī vālī sīt  it’s not working ye thīk nahī
               windscreen vind skrīn   chal rahī
               windscreen wiper vind skrīn   world duniyā
                vāipar                worry: I’m worried ma
               windsurfing vind sarfing  pareshān hū
               windy: it’s so windy bahut tez   worse: it’s worse ye zyādā
                havā chal rahī ha      kharāb ha
               wine vāin              worst sabse kharāb
                can we have some more   worth: is it worth a visit? kyā
                wine? thōrī awr vāin dījiye  ye dekhne lāyak ha?
               wine list vāin list    would: would you give this to  ABCDEFGHIJKLWr
               winter jārā             ...? ye ... kō de de
                in the winter jāre me  wrap: could you wrap it up?
               winter holiday jāre kī   ise kāgaz me lapet de
                chhuttiyā             wrapping paper lapetne kā
               wire tār                kāgaz
                (electric) bijlī kā tār  wrist kalāī
               wish: best wishes      write likhnā
                mubārakbād, shubh      could you write it down? ise
                kāmnāye (H)            likh de
               with ke sāth            how do you write it? ise kis
                I’m staying with ... (said by man/  tarah likhte ha?
                woman) ma ... ke sāth thahrā/  writing paper likhne kā
                thahrī hū              kāgaz
               without binā           wrong: it’s the wrong key ye
               witness gavāh           galat chābī ha
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