Sindhi

See also: sindhi

English

Alternative forms

• Sindhee, Sinde (alt)

Etymology

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Distant doublet of Hindi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪndi/

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  • (India, Pakistani English) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪnd̪ʱi/
• Rhymes: -ɪndi
• Homophones: Cindy, Sindy

Adjective

Sindhi (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Sindh, the Sindhi language or the Sindhi people.

Translations

pertaining to Sindh

• Arabic: سِنْدِيّ (sindiyy), سِنْدِيَّة (sindiyya)
• French: sindhi (fr) m
• Hindi: सिन्धी (hi) (sindhī), सिंधी (hi) (sindhī)
• Persian: سندی (fa) (sendi)
• Portuguese: sindi (pt)
• Punjabi: ਸਿੰਧੀ (pa) (sindhī)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: синдски m

  Roman: sindski m

• Sindhi: سنڌي (sd) (sindhī)
• Urdu: سندھی (ur) (sindhī)

Noun

Sindhi (plural Sindhis)

1. A Sindhi-speaking person from or residing in Sindh.

Proper noun

Sindhi

1. An Indo-Aryan language spoken in four main dialects in Pakistan and India. There are around 35 million Sindhi speakers in Sindh سنڌ and more than 40 million throughout the world. Sindhi is written with a modified Arabic script that has 52 letters, and in a modified Devanagari script too.

Translations

language

• Arabic: اَلسِّنْدِيَّة f (as-sindiyya)
• Armenian: սինդհի (hy) (sindhi)
• Catalan: sindhi m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 信德語／信德语 (Xìndéyǔ)

• Finnish: sindhi (fi)
• French: sindhi (fr) m
• German: Sindhi (de) n
• Hindi: सिन्धी (hi) f (sindhī), सिंधी (hi) f (sindhī)
• Japanese: シンド語 (ja) (Shindo-go)
• Korean: 신디어 (Sindi-eo)
• Persian: سندی (fa)
• Portuguese: sindi (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸਿੰਧੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ (sindhī bhāśā)
• Russian: си́ндхи (ru) m (síndxi)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: синди m

  Roman: sindi m

• Sindhi: سنڌي (sd) (sindhī)
• Spanish: sindí pl or m or f or n
• Urdu: سندھی (ur) f (sindhī)
• Western Panjabi: سندھی بولی (sndhī bolī)

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Sindhi terms
• ॻ, ॾ, ॼ, ॿ

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code sd, ISO 639-3 code snd (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Sindhi, snd ⁠

Anagrams

• Indish, dishin'

German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Sindhi n (proper noun, strong, genitive Sindhi or Sindhis)

1. Sindhi (a language spoken in parts of India and Pakistan)

See also

• Sinti