Weather talk opens conversations in every language, and in Urdu it comes with real drama: loo winds, monsoons, and winters people wait all year for. Pattern of the level: 'āj ___ hai' (today it's ___).
موسمmausam: weather / seasonAlso gave English the word 'monsoon', via Arabic mawsim.
گرمیgarmī: heat / summer
سردیsardī: cold / winterGarmī–sardī: the two poles of desi life.
بارشbārish: rain
دھوپdhūp: sunshineAspirated dh, palm up, feel the puff.
ہواhavā: wind / air
بادلbādal: clouds
آج گرمی ہےāj garmī hai: It's hot todayL8's āj + L12's garmī. The pattern for all weather.
بارش ہو رہی ہےbārish ho rahī hai: It's rainingLiterally 'rain is happening', weather 'happens' in Urdu.
کیا خوبصورت موسم ہے!kyā khūbsūrat mausam hai!: What beautiful weather!Kyā as an exclamation, 'what a…!' Bonus use of your L6 word.
آج بہت سردی ہےāj bahut sardī hai: It's very cold todaySardī is both the cold and the winter, like garmī.
لگتا ہے بارش ہو گیlagtā hai bārish ho gī: Looks like it'll rainLagtā hai = it seems. The gentlest way to guess.
موسم بدل رہا ہےmausam badal rahā hai: The weather is changingBadalnā = to change. A bādal is a cloud; the resemblance is a coincidence.
چھتری لے لیںchhatrī le leṉ: Take an umbrellaChhatrī, from chhat (roof): a little roof you carry.
برف باریbarf bārī: snowfallBarf (snow) + bārī, the falling. Bārish is its rain cousin.
آندھیāndhī: dust stormThe wall of dust before a summer storm. Every Pakistani knows the smell.
Good to know
✨ English took monsoon from the same root as mausam. Arabic mawsim, 'season'. In South Asia the monsoon isn't background weather; it's a season-long event with its own songs, foods (pakoras are mandatory), and poetry.
✨ The first monsoon rain after months of garmī has its own vocabulary: the smell of rain on dry earth even has a borrowed name in English, 'petrichor', but desi kids just call the whole ritual 'barish!' and run outside.
✨ Kyā moonlights again: at the front of an exclamation it means 'what a…!', kyā bāt hai! (literally 'what a thing!') is the everyday phrase for 'wonderful!' or 'well said!'
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