फ़िरंगी

See also: फिरंगी, फिरिंगी, फ़िरंग, and फ़िरिंगी

Hindi

Alternative forms

फ़िरिंगी (firiṅgī), फिरिंगी (phiriṅgī), फिरंगी (phiraṅgī)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (farangī),^[1] ultimately from Old French franc. First attested in c. 1564^[2] as Middle Hindi فرنگی (frngy).

Cognates

Compare Bengali ফিরিঙ্গি (phiriṅgi), Malayalam പീരങ്കി (pīraṅki), Telugu ఫిరంగి (phiraṅgi).

Pronunciation

(Delhi) IPA^(key): /fɪ.ɾəŋ.ɡiː/, [fɪ.ɾɐ̃ŋ.ɡiː], /pʰɪ.ɾəŋ.ɡiː/, [pʰɪ.ɾɐ̃ŋ.ɡiː]
Rhymes: -iː
Hyphenation: फ़ि‧रं‧गी, फ़ि‧रङ्‧गी

Noun

फ़िरंगी • (firaṅgī) m (Urdu spelling فَرَنگِی)^[3]^[4]

(dated) a Westerner; a European; a foreigner
Synonym: गोरा (gorā)

इतनी गर्मी में बहुत कम फ़िरंगी यहाँ पर्यटन के लिये आते हैं।
itnī garmī mẽ bahut kam firaṅgī yahā̃ paryaṭan ke liye āte ha͠i.
In so much heat, very few foreigners come here for tourism.
- 2018, ठग्स ऑफ हिंदोस्तान [ṭhags ŏph hindostān, Thugs of Hindostan] (motion picture), spoken by Firangi Mallah (Aamir Khan):
  मेरा नाम फ़िरंगी जरूर है, लेकिन फ़िरंगियों के हाथों [से] मरेंगे नहीं हम।
  merā nām firaṅgī jarūr hai, lekin firaṅgiyõ ke hāthõ [se] mareṅge nahī̃ ham.
  My name is indeed फ़िरंगी (firaṅgī), but I will not die at the hands of Westerners.

Declension

Declension of *फ़िरंगी* (masc ī-stem)
	singular	plural
direct	फ़िरंगी firaṅgī	फ़िरंगी firaṅgī
oblique	फ़िरंगी firaṅgī	फ़िरंगियों firaṅgiyõ
vocative	फ़िरंगी firaṅgī	फ़िरंगियो firaṅgiyo

Descendants

→ English: firangi

References

More information

^ Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “faraṅgī, firaṅgī”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 227.
^ “فرنگی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
^ McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “firangi”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 683
^ Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “फिरंगी”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 3296