Persian and Urdu: 107 words that are the same
Among the two thousand words each language uses most, these are written identically and carry the same meaning in both. If you have one of the two, this is the part you do not have to learn.
Persian Urdu
A shared word is not proof of a shared root. Two languages can land on the same spelling by borrowing from a third — that is all tren and bomba are — and a word that looks the same can still be said quite differently. What this list is good for is the head start.
| Word | In English | Persian | Urdu |
|---|---|---|---|
| و | and | #5 | #158 |
| دوست | friend | #49 | #161 |
| دو | two | #69 | #51 |
| وقت | time | #71 | #63 |
| سال | year | #91 | #129 |
| خدا | God | #115 | #111 |
| وجود | existence | #125 | #652 |
| شب | night | #127 | #1,168 |
| اگر | if | #129 | #66 |
| خوش | happy | #145 | #154 |
| یا | or | #154 | #68 |
| خبر | news | #170 | #370 |
| طرف | side | #178 | #82 |
| حالت | state, condition | #190 | #864 |
| آب | water | #194 | #1,588 |
| خون | blood | #195 | #273 |
| مشکل | difficult | #214 | #339 |
| انتخاب | election | #221 | #783 |
| جنگ | war | #249 | #126 |
| چیز | thing | #277 | #146 |
| خارج | outside | #317 | #516 |
| حساب | account | #354 | #1,721 |
| انسان | human | #364 | #202 |
| لعنتی | cursed, accursed | #388 | #1,874 |
| یعنی | means | #412 | #797 |
| پرواز | flight | #422 | #349 |
| نام | name | #426 | #98 |
| قانون | law | #428 | #560 |
| انتظار | wait, waiting | #456 | #115 |
| ثابت | constant | #499 | #271 |
| دنیا | world | #534 | #117 |
| بحث | discussion | #550 | #1,129 |
| یاد | memory | #559 | #135 |
| مقدار | amount, quantity | #568 | #1,297 |
| ممکن | possible | #569 | #414 |
| پاک | clean, pure | #573 | #1,505 |
| مرکز | centre, center | #578 | #718 |
| رنگ | colour | #617 | #435 |
| گوشت | meat | #637 | #1,093 |
| جوان | young | #648 | #1,058 |
| صد | hundred | #649 | #1,071 |
| دل | heart | #668 | #303 |
| خدمت | service | #670 | #437 |
| کاش | I wish, if only | #702 | #664 |
| مقدس | holy, sacred | #714 | #531 |
| خاموش | quiet | #740 | #598 |
| شکر | sugar | #741 | #921 |
| سن | age | #743 | #279 |
| شخص | person, individual | #749 | #185 |
| درخت | tree | #750 | #759 |
| عادت | custom | #762 | #1,140 |
| افسر | officer | #770 | #795 |
| گردن | neck | #774 | #919 |
| مبارک | blessed | #827 | #501 |
| چاقو | knife | #840 | #1,059 |
| خاص | special | #852 | #287 |
| زبان | tongue | #861 | #312 |
| پل | bridge | #891 | #743 |
| زخم | wound | #897 | #938 |
| کشتی | boat, ship | #902 | #737 |
| خطرناک | dangerous | #923 | #624 |
| حمل | transport, carriage, bearing | #927 | #1,661 |
| مخصوص | private, characteristic | #933 | #1,655 |
| سبز | green | #943 | #635 |
| اطلاع | notice | #961 | #1,277 |
| اخبار | news | #969 | #1,090 |
| رخ | face, cheek | #992 | #1,953 |
| معروف | famous, renowned | #1,008 | #1,431 |
| عجیب | strange | #1,071 | #345 |
| نرم | soft | #1,079 | #770 |
| طوفان | storm, tempest | #1,104 | #679 |
| خشک | dry | #1,112 | #1,218 |
| تن | body | #1,114 | #1,564 |
| گشت | patrol, watch | #1,202 | #1,700 |
| آواز | voice | #1,208 | #521 |
| لب | lip | #1,222 | #1,406 |
| آسمان | sky | #1,235 | #494 |
| سفید | white | #1,248 | #417 |
| تاج | crown | #1,249 | #1,557 |
| جاسوس | spy | #1,355 | #694 |
| حکومت | government | #1,356 | #302 |
| کور | blind | #1,438 | #703 |
| عذاب | torture | #1,440 | #898 |
| بیان | statement | #1,479 | #726 |
| امید | hope | #1,516 | #239 |
| دیوار | wall | #1,528 | #380 |
| میز | table | #1,529 | #1,082 |
| دیگر | other | #1,543 | #565 |
| شرم | shame | #1,546 | #733 |
| غلط | wrong | #1,549 | #228 |
| منی | semen | #1,558 | #1,413 |
| قانونی | legal | #1,583 | #533 |
| نمک | salt | #1,584 | #1,008 |
| اطاعت | obedience | #1,598 | #1,087 |
| خنجر | dagger, khanjar | #1,643 | #366 |
| قبر | grave, tomb | #1,649 | #1,195 |
| صفر | zero | #1,658 | #894 |
| حمایت | support, backing, aid, advocacy | #1,697 | #1,230 |
| خاندان | family | #1,773 | #231 |
| موسیقی | music | #1,792 | #478 |
| بحران | crisis | #1,901 | #1,262 |
| شیر | lion | #1,956 | #1,359 |
| محترم | honored; honorable, respectable, esteemed | #1,960 | #418 |
| مسافر | traveller | #1,978 | #1,315 |
| بندی | prisoner | #1,991 | #340 |
| ضرر | detriment, loss, disadvantage, deficiency | #1,995 | #1,882 |
| کیک | cake | #2,000 | #1,045 |
The overlap is the easy part.
The rest comes from using it with someone who speaks it.