Hindi

See also: hindi and hindî

English

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Etymology

From Persian هندی (hendi), from هند (hend, “India”), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu) + Persian adjectival suffix ی-.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĭn'di, IPA^(key): /ˈhɪndi/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪndi

Proper noun

Hindi

1. A language spoken in the Northern States of India. Also spoken in Fiji, Guyana and as a second language by Indians in many other countries. The word "Hindi" is borrowed from Persian into other languages.

Translations

language

• Afrikaans: Hindi (af)
• Amharic: ሕንድኛ (hindiñña)
• Arabic: هندية (ar) f (hindīya)
• Armenian: հինդի (hindi), հնդկերեն (hndkeren)
• Asturian: hindi (ast) m
• Azeri: hind
• Basque: hindi (eu)
• Belarusian: хіндзі m (xíndzi)
• Bulgarian: хинди (hindi)
• Catalan: hindi (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印地語, 印地语 (zh) (Yìndìyǔ), 印地文 (Yìndìwén)

• Czech: hindština (cs) f
• Danish: hindi
• Dutch: Hindi (nl) n
• Esperanto: hinda
• Estonian: hindi keel
• Fiji Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Fijian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hindi (fi)
• French: hindî (fr)
• Georgian: ჰინდი (hindi)
• German: Hindi (de) n
• Greek: χίντι (el) (chínti)
• Greenlandic: Hindimiutut
• Gujarati: હિન્દી (gu) (hindī)
• Hebrew: הינדית (hindit)
• Hindi: हिन्दी (hi) f (hindī), हिंदी (hi) f (hindī)
• Hungarian: hindi (hu)
• Icelandic: hindí (is)
• Indonesian: hindi
• Irish: Hiondúis f
• Japanese: ヒンディー語 (ja) (hindii-go)
• Kannada: ಹಿಂದೀ (hindī)
• Khmer: ហិណ្ឌី (həndii)
• Korean: 힌디어 (ko) (hindi'eo)
• Latvian: hindi
• Lithuanian: hindi (lt)
• Lojban: xindo
• Malay: hindi
• Maltese: Ħindi

• Marathi: हिन्दी (hindī)
• Moksha: хинди (xindi)
• Mongolian: Энтхэг (Entheg)
• Navajo: Híndoo bizaad
• Nepali: हिन्दी (ne) (hindī)
• Norwegian: hindi (no)
• Occitan: indi (oc)
• Oriya: ହିନ୍ଦୀ (hindī)
• Persian: هندی (fa) (hendī)
• Polish: hindi (pl)
• Portuguese: hindi (pt)
• Romanian: hindusă
• Russian: хинди (ru) m (xíndi) (indecl)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хинди m

  Roman: hindi m

• Sindhi: ھِندِي
• Sinhalese: හින්දි (si) (hindi), හින්දි භාෂාව (hindi bhāṣāva)
• Slovak: hindský
• Slovene: hindijščina f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: hindišćina f

  Upper Sorbian: hindišćina f

• Spanish: hindi (es) m
• Swahili: Kihindi
• Swedish: hindi (sv)
• Tamil: ஹிந்தி (ta) (hindi)
• Tatar: хинди (khindi)
• Telugu: హిందీ (te) (himdī), హిందీ భాష (te) (himdī bhāṣa), హిందీ మాట్లాడు ప్రజలు (himdī māṭlāḍu prajalu), ఉత్తరాది వారు (uttarādi vāru), ఉత్తర భారతదేశ జనాలు (uttara bhāratadēśa janālu)
• Thai: ภาษาฮินดู (phāsā-hindū)
• Turkish: Hintçe (tr)
• Ukrainian: хiндi m (xíndi)
• Urdu: ہندی f (hindī)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Hin-đi (vi), tiếng Ấn Độ
• Volapük: hindiy (vo)
• Walloon: hindi
• Welsh: hindi
• Xhosa: isiHindi
• Zulu: isiHindi

Adjective

Hindi (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Hindi language.

Translations

relating to the Hindi language

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хиндски m

  Roman: hindski m

See also

• Hindu
• Hindustani, Hindi-Urdu
• Urdu
• Wiktionary's coverage of Hindi terms

External links

• ISO 639-1 code hi, ISO 639-3 code hin
• Ethnologue entry for Hindi, hi

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Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɪn.di/

Proper noun

Hindi n

1. Hindi (language)

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Pronunciation

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Noun

Hindi n

1. The Hindi language

Noun

Hindi m

1. A Hindi-speaking person