హిందీ

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See also: హోదా and హిందూ

Telugu

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Etymology

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From Classical Persian هندی (hindī), from هند (hind, “India”), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu) + Persian adjectival suffix -ی (-ī).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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హిందీ • (hindī)

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

Proper noun

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హిందీ • (hindī) f

  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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హిందీ • (hindī) f (plural హిందీలు)

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

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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