હિંદી

Gujarati

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian هندی (hindī).

Pronunciation

Adjective

હિંદી • (hindī) (indeclinable)

  1. belonging or relating to India, anything Indian
  2. (historical) Indian[1]
    Synonyms: ભારતીય (bhārtīya), ભારતવર્ષીય (bhāratvarṣīya), હિંદુસ્તાની (hindustānī)

Proper noun

હિંદી • (hindī) f

  1. Modern Standard Hindi: a khariboli based tongue which happens to be standardized and Sanskritized version of the Hindustani language.
  2. The Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages. These are also spoken in Fiji, Guyana and as a second language by Indians in many other countries.
  3. (linguistics) All the lects in the Hindi Belt, which also includes lects that do not belong to the Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages.
  4. (historical) A dialect spoken in Delhi, now known as Hindustani.

References

  1. ^ Henry Yule (1903) “Hobson-Jobson: A glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive”, in dsal.uchicago.edu‎[1], archived from the original on 19 December 2023
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