Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of vernacular Indic dialects spoken in northern India.
- noun 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A modern dialect of northern India, differing from Hindustani in being a purer Aryan dialect. See Hindustani, Indian.
- noun A native of India.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindus. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
language spoken in the Northern States ofIndia . Also spoken inFiji ,Guyana and as a second language byIndians in many other countries. The word Hindi is borrowed from Persian into other languages. - adjective Of or relating to the Hindi language.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
- adjective of or relating to or supporting Hinduism
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Well, this week, the green theme continues, because green in Hindi is hara, an H word!
Archive 2007-03-01 Nupur 2007
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Green in Hindi is hara and hariyali translates as greenery.
Archive 2007-03-01 Nupur 2007
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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 2000
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K also represents a taste: Khatta in Hindi, meaning "tangy" or "sour".
Archive 2007-04-01 Nupur 2007
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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One of them once asked for water and the stewardess replied in Hindi, This is not my lane.
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One of them once asked for water and the stewardess replied in Hindi, This is not my lane.
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