Pumpkin - Kaddu

"Pumpkin"
In Urdu "Kaddu" or Kaddoo / Qaddu / Qaddoo. Some people wrongly use the urdu name "Kaddu" for "Bottle Gourd". It should not be mixed though since Bottle Gourd has its own urdu translation.

The most commonly known type of pumpkin

Furrthur different varieties of pumpkins available

Bottle Gourd - Lawki

"Bottle Gourd"
In Urdu "Lawki" or Lawky / Lawkee / Lauki / Lauky / Laukee / Loki / Loky / Lokee. There are different varieties of bottle gourd with slight or almost negligible variation in tastes.
Some people wrongly refer to it as Kaddu in Urdu, which is a name of another vegetable.

The regular long bottle gourds

Crossection of a bottle gourd

Round bottle gourds

Oval shaped bottle gourds

Bottle gourds below are the variety

of Thailand

Peas - Mutter

"Peas"
In Urdu "Mutter" or Muttur / Muttor / Muttar / Ma-ter / Ma-tor / Ma-tur

Cooked Peas

Fresh Peas

Basil - Tulsi / Niazbu

"Basil" is basically a genus (category name) of various variety of plants in its group. The specific names can be as follows:

• Holy Basil (3 types )
1. Holy Basil Green leaved (native to Indo-Pak)
2. Holy Basil Purple leaved (native to Indo-Pak)
3. Thai Holy Basil (native to Thailand)
• Thai Basil (not to be confused with Thai Holy Basil)
• Sweet Basil
• Lemon Basil

In Urdu "Tulsi" for Holy Basil (all 3 types) &
In Urdu "Niazbu" for Thai Basil - or Niaazbu / Nyazbu / Nyaazbu

Holy Basil with green stems of plant

Thai Basil with purple stems of plant

Basil Seeds - Baalanga

"Basil Seeds"
In Urdu "Baalanga*" or Balanga / Baalangaa / Balangaa

Thai Basil's Seeds are larger as compared to Sweet Basil's Seeds.

* This article needs to updated/modified if required

Celery - Celery

"Celery"
In Urdu "Celery". Since it is not a native vegetable to the subcontinent of Indo-Pak, therefore it doesn't have its own name in native languages and it uses its borrowed name 'celery.'  Why? because when you don't have your own name for a certain product, you adopt the name from the original language to include it into your own vocabulary of  language.

Scallion / Spring Onion - Hari Pyaaz

"Scallion" is also know as Spring Onion.
In Urdu "Hari Pyaaz" or Hari Pyaz / Hari Piaaz / Hari Piaz

Taro - Arvi

"Taro" basically is the name of the plant. The vegetable needs to be reffered to as Taro Corm (root.) But in common / layman language Taro is used to refer to its vegetable, which infact is the root of the plant.
In Urdu "Arvi" or Arvee / Arvy / Ervi / Ervy / Ervee

Ajwain - Ajwaeen

"Ajwain" also Ajowan is not a seed of the fruit but the fruit itself, looks somewhat like caraway but rather more pungent & stronger aroma. Also reffered to as carom seeds but this is wrong.
In Urdu "Ajwaeen" or Ajvaeen / Ajwine / Ajvine

Barley - Jau

"Barley" when ground is similar in appearance to wheat but rather coarse.
In Urdu "Jau" or Jaw / Jau / Jauw / Jow

Turmeric - Haldi / Ground Turmeric - Pisi Haldi

"Turmeric"
In Urdu "Haldi" or Haldy / Haldee

"Ground Turmeric"
In Urdu "Pisi Haldi" or Pisi Haldee / Pisi Haldy

Okra - Lady's Finger - Bhindi

"Okra" also known as Lady's Finger.
In Urdu "Bhindi" or Bhindy / Bhyndi

Cheese - Paneer

"Cheese". One picture cannot suffice to describe cheese due to its many varieties available
In Urdu "Paneer" or Panir

Different kind of cheese stacked together

Cheese have variety of colors ranging from white to

yellow to orange, even blue & green, dark or bright

There are more than 2000 types of cheese available

around the world

Peanut - MoongPhali

"Peanut"
In Urdu "MoongPhali" or MungPhali
Some people dismiss pronunciating it in its original form. Hence, people mostly call it "MoomPhali" ignoring the 'ng' in the word just because it is more convenient.

Following picture is of Coated Peanuts

Picture below are of peanuts without their Coat

Walnut - Akhrot

"Walnut"
In Urdu "Akhrot"

Almond - Badaam

"Almond"
In Urdu "Badaam" or Badam / Baadaam

The picture below is of almonds in their shells.

Pistachio - Pista

"Pistachio"
In Urdu "Pista" or Pistaa

Cashew Nuts - Kaju

"Cashew Nuts" is the name of the fruit. Cashew alone is the name of the tree, as opose to in Urdu in which the fruit has its own name instead of using the tree's name.
In Urdu "Kaju" or Kaaju / Kajoo / Kaajoo

Raisin - Kishmish

"Raisin" is a grape dried to attain this form.
In Urdu "Kishmish"

Charoli - Chironji

"Charoli" although charoli is not found in english dictionary, it's just a random pronunciation. Since it originates from Indo-Pak region therefore calling it Chironji in English will suffice.
In Urdu "Chironji" or Chironjee / Chirounji / Chiraunji / Chiraunjee