Hyderabad, April 14 -- While Hyderabad is often pigeonholed as just a food capital, famous for its biryani, haleem, and Irani Chai, another flavour defines this city just as strongly: its language.

Step into a local market or hop into an auto and you are bound to hear words like "kaiku", "nakko", "haula", "kate" and more. Often mistaken as funny expressions or slang by outsiders, these words are actually part of a living, breathing language called Dakhni. And tucked within this rich language are muhavrey- idiomatic phrases that carry humor, sarcasm and history all at once.

Further into this article, we will explore some of the most popular Hyderabadi muhavrey but first, it is important to understand the language they come from. Siasat.c...