ख़ानदानी
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Hindi[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Classical Persian خاندانی (xāndānī), from خاندان (xāndān).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ख़ानदानी • (xāndānī) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling خاندانی)
- ancestral, hereditary
- यह हमारा ख़ानदानी मकान दो सदियों से रहा है।
- yah hamārā xāndānī makān do sadiyõ se rahā hai.
- This has been our ancestral home for two centuries.
- of good lineage; of good stock
Related terms[edit]
- ख़ानदान (xāndān, “family; lineage”)
References[edit]
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “ख़ानदानी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 234