Miscellaneous Topics

[Bharatvarsh]

Mother in law in Telugu is simply called attha but father in law in literary telugu can also be called svasurudu (although rarely done since most people don't know that word, so mama is used most of the time).

I think its similar in other North Indian languages, Panjabi has a vocabulary very similar to Hindi but pronounciation differs, one word used in Bengali is sasuri for mother-in-law. In Tamil one word shown in the dictionary was mami/mamiyar.

But for sasural (father in law's house) in Telugu different words can be used to express it, "attavari illu (house)" is the most common.

I don't know about Hindi papers but I did see Telugu papers using Telugu abbreviations, example for Telugu Desam Party instead of saying TDP the Eenadu newspaper uses "te de pa".

Also the actual Hindi word for Faisla could either be nischai or nirnai (there are others also), both of these are common to Telugu also, adalat is nyayalay/nyayastan.