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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of the predominantly Muslim people of Sindh.
  • noun The Indic language of Sindh.
  • adjective Of or relating to Sindh or its people, language, or culture.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Sindh or its people or their language.
  • noun A native of Sindh, or one whose native tongue is Sindhi.
  • noun An Aryan language spoken principally in Sindh, India.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Sindh, the Sindhi language or the Sindhi person.
  • noun A Sindhi-speaking person from or residing in Sindh.
  • proper noun An Indo-Aryan language spoken in four main dialects in Pakistan. There are around 35 million Sindhi speakers in Sindh سنڌ and more than 40 million throughout the world. Sindhi is written with a modified Arabic script that has 52 letters.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a native or inhabitant of Sind
  • noun the Indic language of Sind which is spoken also in western India

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Arabic sindī, from Sindh.]

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