Urdu language Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...

, Awami is the adjectival form for '' Awam'', the Urdu language word for common people. The adjective appears in the following proper names: * Awami Colony, a neighbourhood of Landhi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan * Awami Front, was a front of six Muslim political parties in Uttar Pradesh, India * Awami Muslim League Pakistan, a Pakistani political party *

Awami National Party The Awami National Party (ANP; , ; lit. ''People's National Party'') is a Pashtun nationalist, secular and leftist political party in Pakistan. The party was founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986 and its current president is Aimal Wali Khan, g ...

, a secular and leftist Pashtun nationalist political party in Pakistan *

Bangladesh Awami League The Awami League, officially known as Bangladesh Awami League, is a major List of political parties in Bangladesh, political party in Bangladesh. The oldest existing political party in the country, the party played the leading role in achievin ...

, often simply called the Awami League or AL, one of the major political parties in Bangladesh *

National Awami Party The National Awami Party (NAP) was the major left-wing political party in East and West Pakistan. It was founded in 1957 in Dhaka, erstwhile East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), by Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Yar Mohammad Khan, through th ...

, progressive political party in East and West Pakistan *

National Awami Party (Bhashani) The National Awami Party (Bhashani) was a left wing political party in Bangladesh. History The National Awami Party (Bhashani) was established on 30 November 1967 when the National Awami Party split into two different fractions. The pro-Moscow f ...

, split-off from National Awami Party in East Pakistan *

National Awami Party (Wali) The Wali Khan faction of the National Awami PartyThe National Awami Party of Pakistan: Leftist Politics in Crisis M. Rashiduzzaman Pacific Affairs, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Autumn, 1970), pp. 394-409 Published by: Pacific Affairs, University of British ...

, Wali Khan faction of the National Awami Party was formed after the 1967 split in the original National Awami Party * National Awami Party (Muzaffar) or Bangladesh National Awami Party, political party in Bangladesh, successor of the Wali faction * Bangladesh National Awami Party-Bangladesh NAP, successor of the Bhashani faction in Bangladesh * Pakistan Awami Tehrik, a political party in Pakistan that took part in general elections in 1990 and 2002. * Awami Nastaliq, a typeface by SIL International In Japanese cuisine, awami is synonymous with

escargot Snails are eaten by humans in many areas such as Africa, Southeast Asia and Mediterranean Europe, while in other cultures, snails are seen as a taboo food. In English, edible land snails are commonly called escargot, from the French word for 's ...

, or edible snails.

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