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হিন্দকী

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Bengali

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Term is made up with هند (হিন্দ) + كی (কী), literally means 'of Hind'.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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হিন্দকী • (hindoki)

  1. the people of Indian descent who have converted to Islam, found in Peshawar and other parts of Afghanistan.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Henry Yule (1903) “Hobson-Jobson: A glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive”, in dsal.uchicago.edu‎[1], archived from the original on 19 December 2023
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