Hindki

English

Etymology

Term is made up with هند + كی, literally means 'of Hind'.

Proper noun

Hindki

  1. The Hindko language.

Noun

Hindki (plural Hindkis)

  1. the people of Indian descent who have converted to Islam, found in Peshawar and other parts of Afghanistan.[1]

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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