Nifty Fifty
Urdu translation: نفٹی
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| 18:25 May 21, 2007 |
| English to Urdu translations [PRO] Bus/Financial - Finance (general) / Economics | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Roomy Naqvy India Local time: 08:53 | ||||||
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| 5 | Kashish walay pachas |
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| 5 | نفٹی ففٹی |
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peer agreement (net): +1| nifty fifty Nifty Explanation: Though I'm not an Urdu person but being heavily interested in finance and being an active stock investor myself, I got interested. Interestingly, Indian languages, especially Gujarati and Hindi, have less terms for financial vocabulary, especially that related to the stock markets. The BSE, Bombay Stock Exchange, Index or the Sensex [sensitive index] is called 'sanvedi soochkank' in Hindi but the NSE or the National Stock Exchange [or Nifty or Nifty Fifty] is called Nifty in Hindi. So, unless you have an established tradition of calling the Nifty something in Urdu, it would make a lot more communicative sense for you to use Nifty in Urdu. By the way, do you know what the Nifty is? It is called Nifty Fifty because it is composed of 50 stocks. I teach translation to my students and my Urdu students use Nifty in Urdu. The NYSE is called Wall Street. Then we have Nasdaq, the technology sector focused stock exchange... and we also have the Footsie, the FTSE.... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 53 mins (2007-05-21 19:19:27 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- --The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is the Hang Seng Index. --In US, they have Dow Jones, Nasdaq, and S&P [which is the Standard and Poor Index] For further information, please read: www.sharekhan.com [and notice how they describe the business (the rise and the fall of shares) every day. Their language would be great to analyze from a translator's point of view. http://marketwatch.nytimes.com/custom/nyt-com/html-usmarkets... is the link for the New York Times' stocks page. You can also try www.nseindia.com which is the website of the National Stock Exchange or the Nifty! I particularly love the name, Nifty! It is quite nifty, you know. And interestingly, [though I'm a very small fry and a nobody on the stock markets], I can tell you that the Bombay Stock Exchange [BSE] has been traditionally and historically more volatile in terms of price movements and more prone to scandals and price manipulations whereas the Nifty has been a more stable stock index. I'm glad I work on the Nifty. |
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