BEING HYDERABADI: SLANG ANUSAAR

What is the first thing that pops in your head when you think of Hyderabad? Most often than not, it’s two things: Hyderabadi Biryani and Charminar.

However, there’s another interesting personality to this city that makes it quite unusual and atypical. It is the language!

Here are a few phrases that the city speaks; highlighting the charming dialect beyond the caricature that you must’ve heard in the Bollywood movies:

If you are a Hindi native speaker, you’ll be quick to recognize the changes in the singularity/plurality of things here. Here, for plurals, the usage of ‘s’ as a suffix in English, ‘o’ as a suffix in Hindi is not applicable. It’s the ‘aan’ which makes it unique, logaan (people), rodaan(road/roads).

Also, the concept of time is quite open-ended. When Hyderabadis say ‘parson’, they could be referring to something that happened 5 seconds ago or 50 days ago.

Hyderabad is where Irani chai is more famous than in Iran, and people welcome you with big hearts, embrace you with warmth and love, regardless of which part of the world you come from.