ill put things in prospetive first:-
we recently had a seminar on communicating through a interpritor(translator) while addressing culturally taboo issues. the pretend patient was a bangladeshi houswife suffering from infertility and therefore we had to ask if/how often she had sex!
after the seminar i starting wondering how i would have asked that question in urdu? i mean i dont even know the formal word for sexual intercourse in urdu! i do know some slang words(humping) which you cant use in a formal discussion.
my friend came up with "humbistri" but im not convinced as this just mean sleeping in the same bed!
so what us the correct word? or are we too conservaive to have such a word?
i hope i dont offent pple!!

Mubashirat

It said hambistari (lit. sharing the bed) last time I checked an Urdu-English dictionary.

If there's nothing better in Urdu look in Hindi, Arabic or Farsi dictionary or just use sex and you should get away with it because Urdu as a language is just Hindi with these foreign influences.

The so-called 'Hindi' language is only a recent phenomenon. In fact, Urdu itself has been called Hindi or Hindvi earlier.
'Hindi' is still being invented by adding words from Sanskrit everyday.

Other than 'mubashirat', another word for sexual intercourse is jamaa'. It has a different spelling then the word 'jama' for adding. Jamaa' is spelled as jeem-meem-alif-ain. (جماع)

I don't know why one would have difficulty accepting 'ham-bistri' either. Isn't it that its English version, 'to sleep with someone', also means one and only one thing?

Comparitvly decent words for such a relationship are either Izdawajee Taaluqat or Hum bistri

Mubashirat, Jam'aa or Mujamiaat are only used in books etc

Laholwalquwatta

what about jins?

^ They just do it

"Intercourse"? That's the word my cousin used when she was talking to me about something .. intercourse n sex r formal words