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இந்தி

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See also: இந்து

Tamil

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hindi हिन्दी (hindī).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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இந்தி • (inti)

  1. belonging or relating to India, anything Indian
  2. (historical) Indian[1]
  3. a kind of Indian agarwood

Proper noun

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இந்தி • (inti)

  1. Modern Standard Hindi: a khariboli based tongue which happens to be standardized and Sanskritized version of the Hindustani language.
  2. The Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages. These are also spoken in Fiji, Guyana and as a second language by Indians in many other countries.
  3. (linguistics) All the lects in the Hindi Belt, which also includes lects that do not belong to the Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages.
  4. (historical) A dialect spoken in Delhi, now known as Hindustani.

Noun

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இந்தி • (inti)

  1. a sword of Indian steel[2]
  2. (figuratively) a sword-blow.

Dictionaries

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  • University of Madras (1924–1936) “இந்தி”, in Tamil Lexicon, Madras [Chennai]: Diocesan Press===

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
  2. ^ “Meaning of Hindi in English”, in Rekhta Dictionary‎[2], 2023 September 12 (last accessed), archived from the original on 13 September 2023
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