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Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi हिंदी (hindī), from Classical Persian هندی (hindī).
Adjective
ਹਿੰਦੀ • (hindī) (indeclinable)
- belonging or relating to India, anything Indian
- (historical) Indian
- a kind of Indian agarwood
Proper noun
ਹਿੰਦੀ • (hindī) f
- Modern Standard Hindi: a khariboli based tongue which happens to be standardized and Sanskritized version of the Hindustani language.
- 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.
- (linguistics) All the lects in the Hindi Belt, which also includes lects that do not belong to the Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages.
- (historical) A dialect spoken in Delhi, now known as Hindustani.
Noun
ਹਿੰਦੀ • (hindī) f
- a sword of Indian steel
- (figuratively) a sword-blow.
References
- ^ 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
- ^ “Meaning of Hindi in English”, in Rekhta Dictionary, 2023 September 12 (last accessed), archived from the original on 13 September 2023