زبانیں ज़ुबानेंZubane

A thousand words, ready before you ask

A built-in dictionary of the 1000 most common Hindustani words — each in Devanagari and true Nastaliq with its meaning, origin, grammatical gender, source form, and the surprising list of languages that share it, from Turkish to Swahili to Indonesian. Instant, offline, and honest: where scholars disagree about an origin, the entry says so.

Ask Zubane anything

Beyond the thousand, type any Hindi–Urdu word and the app's AI gives it the same full treatment — scripts, origin, story — and saves it to your own list. Every word in every note is tappable, so one lookup wanders into five.

Song breakdowns

Type a Hindi–Urdu song and get its language DNA: where its words come from, what the poetry means, the film, composer, and lyricist behind it, and one-tap links to find it on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube. Original commentary, never reproduced lyrics.

Hear it said properly

Every word carries a Hindustani pronunciation button backed by studio-quality neural voices, with each word routed to the voice that says it best — so qismat keeps its qaaf and phool keeps its ph. Articles read themselves aloud too, with a player that can pause, scrub, and speed up to 1.5×.

The nuqta files

फ → फ़   ज → ज़   ख → ख़

One dot changes everything. A full chart pairs 51 Devanagari letters with their Nastaliq equivalents and their sounds, and shows how Devanagari writes borrowed sounds with a single fragile dot while Nastaliq gives each its own letter — a difference that may be quietly steering how millions of people speak.

Yours, in your language

The whole app can run in English, हिन्दी, or اردو — with a full right-to-left flip for Urdu. A word of the day, quiz rounds on meanings and origins, and dark mode throughout. No account, no ads, no tracking; the dictionary works offline.