ख़ानदानी
Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian خاندانی (xāndānī), from خاندان (xāndān).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi) IPA(key): /xɑːn.d̪ɑː.niː/, [xä̃ːn̪.d̪äː.niː], /kʰɑːn.d̪ɑː.niː/, [kʰä̃ːn̪.d̪äː.niː]
Adjective
ख़ानदानी • (xāndānī) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling خاندانی)
- ancestral, hereditary
- यह हमारा ख़ानदानी मकान दो सदियों से रहा है।
- yah hamārā xāndānī makān do sadiyõ se rahā hai.
- This has been our ancestral home for two centuries.
- of good lineage; of good stock
Related terms
- ख़ानदान (xāndān, “family; lineage”)
References
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “ख़ानदानी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 234