Hindustani
See also: hindustani and hindustání
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hindustani ہِنْدُوسْتانی (hindūstānī) / हिंदुस्तानी (hindustānī), from Classical Persian هِنْدُوسْتَانِی (hindūstānī), from هِنْدُو (hindū, “Hindu, Indian”) + ـسْتَان (-stān, “land”) + adjective suffix ـِی (-ī). Equivalent to Hindustan + -i.
Adjective
[edit]Hindustani (comparative more Hindustani, superlative most Hindustani)
- (dated outside of South Asia) Related to India, varying historically from the entire Indian subcontinent to India north of the Deccan, especially the plains of the Ganges and Jumna.
Translations
[edit]Noun
[edit]Hindustani (plural Hindustanis)
- A person from India, varying historically from the entire subcontinent to India north of the Deccan, especially the plains of the Ganges and Jumna.
Translations
[edit]person from India or the Indian subcontinent
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Proper noun
[edit]Hindustani
- The pluricentric language of Hindi-Urdu, of which Hindi and Urdu are literary standards;[1] the language from which Hindi and Urdu are derived.[2]
- 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter XI, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC:
- Kim watched the stars as they rose one after another in the still, sticky dark, till he fell asleep at the foot of the altar. That night he dreamed in Hindustani, with never an English word…
- The Delhi dialect of that language.
Synonyms
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References
[edit]- ^ Basu, Manisha (2017) The Rhetoric of Hindutva, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN: “Urdu, like Hindi, was a standardized register of the Hindustani language deriving from the Dehlavi dialect and emerged in the eighteenth century under the rule of the late Mughals.”
- ^ “Hindustani”, in Oxford English Dictionary[1], Oxford University Press, 2024: “An Indo-Aryan language of northern South Asia widely used as a lingua franca, from which modern Hindi and Urdu derive.”
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