Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A group of vernacular Indic dialects spoken in northern India.
- n. The literary and official language of northern India that is based on these dialects. It is written in Devanagari and uses Sanskrit as a resource language.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A modern dialect of northern India, differing from Hindustani in being a purer Aryan dialect. See Hindustani, Indian.
- n. A native of India.
Wiktionary
- n. A language spoken in the Northern States of India. Also spoken in Fiji, Guyana and as a second language by Indians in many other countries. The word Hindi is borrowed from Persian into other languages.
- adj. Of or relating to the Hindi language.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The name given by Europeans to that form of Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindus. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the most widely spoken of modern Indic vernaculars; spoken mostly in the north of India; along with English it is the official language of India; usually written in Devanagari script
- adj. of or relating to or supporting Hinduism
Etymologies
- From Persian هندی (hendi), from هند (hend, "India"), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu) + Persian adjectival suffix ی-. (Wiktionary)
- Hindi Hindī, from Hind, India, from Persian, from Old Persian Hinduš, Sind, from Sanskrit sindhuḥ, river. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Well, this week, the green theme continues, because green in Hindi is hara, an H word!”
“Green in Hindi is hara and hariyali translates as greenery.”
“MICHAEL VLASSOFF, U.N. POPULATION.FUN.: It's sort of the upper part of the north in what they call the Hindi belt where things aren't going so well and people are still having fairly large families.”
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Population - January 2, 2000
“K also represents a taste: Khatta in Hindi, meaning "tangy" or "sour".”
“The trailer for it is narrated in Hindi, features stock shots of floods and other disasters with Hindi script and a chroma-keyed shot of an Indian Max with six arms (a shiva) twirling drum sticks.”
“One of them once asked for water and the stewardess replied in Hindi, This is not my lane.”
“At that time I had a girlfriend who wanted her tea without any sugar, so I learned to say, in Hindi, two teas please, one no sugar.”
“It also has some parts in Hindi, where people ask political parties not field criminals.”
Global Voices in English » Indian Elections 2009: Villains And Votes
“The ad campaign is being aired in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Assamese and Oriya so that it can reach out to the masses.”
Global Voices in English » Celebrity Power in Indian Elections
“The film is in Hindi and English, with English subtitles.”
Lists
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INTERP - languages
This is not a scientific list based on unified criteria, the sole aim was to collect as many language names as possible.
The list contains the names of the following artificial langua...Abkhazian, Achinese, Acoli, Adangme, Adyghe, Afar, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Angika and 8674 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Tweets
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