adj
Meaning 1
In or relating to the Hindi language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
Hindi
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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hĭn-thi'
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UK: /hɪnˈðiː/
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hĭn'di
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US: /ˈhɪndiː/
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India, South-Asia: /ɦɪn̪.d̪iː/
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rhymes with -ɪndi
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CMU ARPABET: HH IH1 N D IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Indian
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, not-comparable
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name
Meaning 3
Modern Standard Hindi, a standardized and Sanskritized version of the Hindustani language, which is based on Khariboli.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 4
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 5
All the lects in the Hindi Belt, which also includes lects that do not belong to the Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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name
Meaning 6
A dialect spoken in Delhi, now known as Hindustani.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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name
Meaning 7
A barangay of Bacacay, Albay, Philippines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
Meaning 8
of or relating to or supporting Hinduism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the Hindu faith
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Hindu, Hindoo
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Sanskrit, Sanskritic language
Narrower terms: Hindustani, Hindoostani, Hindostani
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi हिंदी (hindī), from Classical Persian هِنْدِی (hindī). By surface analysis, Hind + -i. Distant doublet of Sindhi.
Likely derived from Tagalog or Central Bikol.
Across languages
Translations
116 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Serbo-Croatian: хиндски — relating to the Hindi language
- Serbo-Croatian: hindski — relating to the Hindi language
- Afrikaans: Hindi — language
- Amharic: ሕንድኛ (ḥəndəña) — language
- Arabic: هِنْدِيَّة (hindiyya) — language
- Arabic: هِنْدِيّ (hindiyy) — language
- Arabic: هندي (hindi) — language
- Armenian: հինդի (hindi) — language
- Armenian: հնդկերեն (hndkeren) — language
- Assamese: হিন্দী (hindi) — language
- Asturian: hindi — language
- Azerbaijani: hind — language
- Basque: hindi — language
- Belarusian: хі́ндзі (xíndzi) — language
- Bengali: হিন্দি (hindi) — language
- Breton: hindeg — language
- Bulgarian: хи́нди (híndi) — language
- Burmese: ဟိန္ဒီ (hindi) — language
- Catalan: hindi — language
- Chinese Mandarin: 印地語 /印地语 (yìndìyǔ) — language
- Chinese Mandarin: 印地文 (yìndìwén) — language
- Corsican: hindi — language
- Czech: hindština — language
- Danish: hindi — language
- Dhivehi: ހިންދީ (hin̊dī) — language
- Dutch: Hindi — language
- Esperanto: hinda — language
- Estonian: hindi keel — language
- Faroese: hindi — language
- Finnish: hindi — language
- French: hindî — language
- West-Frisian: Hindy — language
- Galician: hindi — language
- Georgian: ჰინდი (hindi) — language
- Georgian: ჰინდი ენა (hindi ena) — language
- German: Hindi — language
- Greek: χίντι (chínti) — language
- Gujarati: હિન્દી (hindī) — language
- Hebrew: הִינְדִּית (hindít) — language
- Hindi: हिंदी (hindī) — language
- Hindi: हिन्दी (hindī) — language
- Hindi: हिंदी भाषा (hindī bhāṣā) — language
- Hindi: हिन्दी भाषा (hindī bhāṣā) — language
- Hungarian: hindi — language
- Icelandic: hindí — language
- Indonesian: Hindi — language
- Indonesian: bahasa Hindi — language
- Irish: Hiondúis — language
- Italian: hindi — language
- Japanese: ヒンディー語 (hindīgo) — language
- Kannada: ಹಿಂದಿ (hindi) — language
- Khmer: ហិណ្ឌី (hendii) — language
- Korean: 힌디어 (hindieo) — language
- Northern Kurdish: hindî — language
- Northern Kurdish: zimanê hindî — language
- Lao: ພາສາຮິນດູ (phā sā hin dū) — language
- Latin: hindice — language
- Latvian: hindi — language
- Lithuanian: hindi — language
- Malay: Hindi — language
- Malay: bahasa Hindi — language
- Malayalam: ഹിന്ദി (hindi) — language
- Maltese: Ħindi — language
- Marathi: हिन्दी (hindī) — language
- Moksha: хинди (hindi) — language
- Mongolian: хинди (xindi) — language
- Mongolian: хинди хэл (xindi xel) — language
- Navajo: Híndoo bizaad — language
- Nepali: हिन्दी (hindī) — language
- Norwegian Bokmål: hindi — language
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hindi — language
- Occitan: indi — language
- Odia: ହିନ୍ଦୀ (hindi) — language
- Pashto: هندي (hendi) — language
- Persian: هِنْدی (hendi) — language
- Polish: hindi — language
- Portuguese: hindi — language
- Punjabi: ਹਿੰਦੀ (hindī) — language
- Romanian: hindusă — language
- Russian: хи́нди (xíndi) — language
- Sanskrit: हिन्दी (hindī) — language
- Santali: ᱦᱤᱱᱫᱤ (hindi) — language
- Serbo-Croatian: хинди — language
- Serbo-Croatian: hindi — language
- Sindhi: ھِندِي (hĩdī) — language
- Sinhalese: හින්දි (hindi) — language
- Sinhalese: හින්දි භාෂාව (hindi bhāṣāwa) — language
- Slovak: hindský — language
- Slovak: hindčina — language
- Slovene: hindijščina — language
- Lower Sorbian: hindišćina — language
- Upper Sorbian: hindišćina — language
- Spanish: hindi — language
- Swahili: Kihindi — language
- Swedish: hindi — language
- Tagalog: wikang Hindi — language
- Tajik: забони ҳиндӣ (zabon-i hindi) — language
- Tajik: ҳиндӣ (hindi) — language
- Tamil: இந்தி (inti) — language
- Tamil: ஹிந்தி (hinti) — language
- Tatar: хинди (xindi) — language
- Telugu: హిందీ (hindī) — language
- Telugu: హిందీ భాష (hindī bhāṣa) — language
- Thai: ภาษาฮินดู (paa-sǎa hin-duu) — language
- Thai: ภาษาฮินดี (paa-sǎa hin-dii) — language
- Turkish: Hintçe — language
- Ukrainian: хі́нді (xíndi) — language
- Ukrainian: гі́нді (híndi) — language
- Urdu: ہِنْدی (hindī) — language
- Vietnamese: tiếng Hin-đi — language
- Vietnamese: tiếng Ấn Độ — language
- Volapük: hindiy — language
- Walloon: hindi — language
- Welsh: hindi — language
- Xhosa: isiHindi — language
- Zulu: isiHindi — language
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