హిందీ

See also: హోదా and హిందూ

Telugu

Etymology

From Classical Persian هندی (hindī), from هند (hind, “India”), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu) + Persian adjectival suffix -ی (-ī).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hindī/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Adjective

హిందీ • (hindī)

  1. belonging or relating to India, anything Indian
  2. (historical) Indian[1]
  3. a kind of Indian agarwood

Proper noun

హిందీ • (hindī) f

  1. Modern Standard Hindi (a Khariboli based tongue, a standardized and Sanskritized version of the Hindustani language)
  2. the Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages
  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

Noun

హిందీ • (hindī) f (plural హిందీలు)

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

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
  2. ^ “Meaning of Hindi in English”, in Rekhta Dictionary‎[2], 12 September 2023 (last accessed), archived from the original on 13 September 2023
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