ہندی

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See also: هندي and هندی

Urdu

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Pronunciation

Adjective

ہِنْدی • (hindī) (Hindi spelling हिंदी)

  1. belonging or relating to India, anything Indian
  2. (historical) Indian[1]
  3. a kind of Indian agarwood
  4. (linguistics) native, inherited in the Urdu language, as opposed to a borrowing.

Proper noun

ہِنْدی • (hindī) f (Hindi spelling हिंदी)

  1. Modern Standard Hindi: a khariboli based tongue which happens to be standardized and Sanskritized version of the Hindustani language.
  2. (linguistics) All the lects in the Hindi Belt, which also includes lects that do not belong to the Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages.
  3. (obsolete) A dialect spoken in Delhi, now known as Urdu.

Noun

ہِنْدی • (hindī) f (Hindi spelling हिंदी)

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

Usage notes

In linguistics, this term is used to differentiate between native or inherited terminology or sounds which are unique to the Urdu language (such as the retroflex sounds) as opposed to borrowed terminology (such as borrowings from Persian or Sanskrit). An example of this would be تَائے ہِنْدی (tāe hindī, “the Indian T”), as it was a sound or letter not used in original Perso-Arab script.

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