Roobaroo - Official Audio Song | Rang De Basanti | A.R. Rahman | Aamir Khan

रूबरू(rUbarU) with र.. Face to Face with the letter र 



One of my students told me that he noticed that the letter र doesn't really follow the the same format of adding the vowel signs  ु  ू


And he is absolutely right!


Let's take a few examples and then compare its usage with the letter र.


क् +  ु  = कु


क् +  ू  = कू




म्  +  ु   = मु 


म्  +  ू   =  मू


If we observe the above we would notice the the vowel signs    ु  ू     are added below the letters.


But there is a slight difference in the case of the letter र.



र् +   ु   = रु


र् + ू  =  रू



In both these cases the vowel signs are NOT added below the letters but attached directly to it.


Now..just one more point...the word रूबरू(rUbarU..pronounced as Roobaroo) which means "face to face " is not a Sanskrit word.

It is a word loaned from the Persian language and used in Urdu and Hindi.

The word for face to face in Sanskrit is मुखम् -प्रतिमुखम् ( mukham -pratimukham)