Hindi

See also: hindi, hindí, híndi, and hindî

English

Etymology

From Classical Persian هِنْدِی (hindī), from هِنْد (hind, “India”), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu) + Persian adjectival suffix ـِی (-ī). Not from Iranian Persian هند (hend).

Pronunciation
  • enPR: hĭn'di, IPA(key): /ˈhɪndi/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪndi

Proper noun

Hindi

  1. Modern Standard Hindi, a standardized and Sanskritized version of the Hindustani language, which is based on Khariboli.
  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.

Translations

Adjective

Hindi (not comparable)

  1. In or relating to the Hindi language.
    • 1988, Kaali Das Gupta Raza, Deewan-e-Ghalib, Sakar Publishers Private Limited, page 460:
      ‘teġh kī hindī agar talvār hai, fārsī pagḌī kī bhī dastār hai.’
  2. (historical) Indian[1]

Translations

See also

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, archived from the original on 19 December 2023

Further reading

Bikol Central

Proper noun

Hindi

  1. a barangay in Bacacay, Albay in the Philippines.

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • audio(file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈɦɪn.di/

Proper noun

Hindi n

  1. Hindi (language)

German

Etymology

Ultimately from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhɪndiː/
  • audio(file)
  • audio(file)

Proper noun

Hindi n (proper noun, strong, genitive Hindi or Hindis)

  1. the Hindi language

Noun

Hindi m (strong, genitive Hindi or Hindis, plural Hindi or Hindis)

  1. Hindi speaker (male or of unspecified gender)

Declension
Declension of Hindi [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Hindi die Hindi, Hindis
genitive eines des Hindi, Hindis der Hindi, Hindis
dative einem dem Hindi den Hindi, Hindis
accusative einen den Hindi die Hindi, Hindis

Noun

Hindi f (genitive Hindi, plural Hindi or Hindis)

  1. female Hindi speaker

Declension
Declension of Hindi [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Hindi die Hindi, Hindis
genitive einer der Hindi der Hindi, Hindis
dative einer der Hindi den Hindi, Hindis
accusative eine die Hindi die Hindi, Hindis

Further reading
  • “Hindi” in Duden online
  • “Hindi” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Swahili

Pronunciation
  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Proper noun

Hindi

  1. Alternative form of Uhindi: India (a country in South Asia)
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