ہندی

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦɪn.d̪iː/

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• Rhymes: -iː

ہِنْدی • (hindī) (Hindi spelling हिंदी)

1. belonging or relating to India, anything Indian
2. (historical) Indian^[1]
3. a kind of Indian agarwood
4. (linguistics) native, inherited in the Urdu language, as opposed to a borrowing.

ہِنْدی • (hindī) f (Hindi spelling हिंदी)

1. Modern Standard Hindi: a khariboli based tongue which happens to be standardized and Sanskritized version of the Hindustani language.
2. (linguistics) All the lects in the Hindi Belt, which also includes lects that do not belong to the Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages.
3. (obsolete) A dialect spoken in Delhi, now known as Urdu.
   • 1988, Kaali Das Gupta Raza, Deewan-e-Ghalib, Sakar Publishers Private Limited, page 460:

     تیغ کی ہندی اگر تلوار ہے؛ فارسی پاگڑی کی بھی دستار ہے-

     Teg of Hindi is Talwar; Pagdi in Persian is called Dastar

ہِنْدی • (hindī) f (Hindi spelling हिंदी)

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

In linguistics, this term is used to differentiate between native or inherited terminology or sounds which are unique to the Urdu language (such as the retroflex sounds) as opposed to borrowed terminology (such as borrowings from Persian or Sanskrit). An example of this would be تَائے ہِنْدی (tāe hindī, “the Indian T”), as it was a sound or letter not used in original Perso-Arab script.