Hindi

See also: hindi, hindí, híndi, and hindî

English

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

Noun

Hindi (uncountable)

1. Modern Standard Hindi, a standardized and Sanskritized version of Hindustani
2. 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.
3. (linguistics) All the lects in the Hindi Belt, which also includes lects that do not belong to the Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages

Translations

language

• Afrikaans: Hindi (af)
• Amharic: ሕንድኛ (ḥəndəñña)
• Arabic: هِنْدِيَّة‎‎ (ar) f (hindiyya)
• Armenian: հինդի (hindi), հնդկերեն (hy) (hndkeren)
• Assamese: হিন্দী (hindi)
• Asturian: hindi (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: hind (az)
• Basque: hindi (eu)
• Belarusian: хі́ндзі m (xíndzi)
• Bengali: হিন্দি (hindi)
• Bulgarian: хи́нди (híndi)
• Burmese: ဟိန္ဒီ (my) (hindi)
• Catalan: hindi (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印地語 (zh), 印地语 (zh) (yìndìyǔ), 印地文 (yìndìwén)

• Czech: hindština (cs) f
• Danish: hindi (da)
• Dutch: Hindi (nl) n
• Esperanto: hinda
• Estonian: hindi keel
• Faroese: hindi n
• Fiji Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Fijian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hindi (fi)
• French: hindî (fr)
• Galician: hindi (gl) m
• Georgian: ჰინდი (hindi), ჰინდი ენა (hindi ena)
• German: Hindi (de) n
• Greek: χίντι (el) (chínti)
• Gujarati: હિન્દી (gu) (hindī)
• Hebrew: הִינְדִּית‎‎ f (hindít)
• Hindi: हिन्दी (hi) f (hindī), हिन्दी भाषा (hi) f (hindī bhāṣā)
• Hungarian: hindi (hu)
• Icelandic: hindí (is)
• Indonesian: hindi, bahasa Hindi (id)
• Irish: Hiondúis f
• Italian: hindi (it) m
• Japanese: ヒンディー語 (ja) (hindīgo)
• Kannada: ಹಿಂದೀ (hindī)
• Khmer: ហិណ្ឌី (həndii)
• Korean: 힌디어 (ko) (hindieo)
• Latvian: hindi
• Lithuanian: hindi (lt)
• Malay: hindi, bahasa Hindi
• Maltese: Ħindi

• Marathi: हिन्दी (hindī)
• Moksha: хинди (xindi)
• Mongolian: хинди (hindi), хинди хэл (hindi hel)
• Navajo: Híndoo bizaad
• Nepali: हिन्दी (ne) (hindī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hindi (no) m, n

  Nynorsk: hindi m

• Occitan: indi (oc)
• Oriya: ହିନ୍ଦୀ (hindī)
• Persian: هندی‎‎ (fa) (hendi)
• Polish: hindi (pl)
• Portuguese: hindi (pt)
• Punjabi: ਹਿੰਦੀ (hidī)
• Romanian: hindusă (ro)
• Russian: хи́нди (ru) m (xíndi)
• Sanskrit: हिन्दीभाषा f (hindībhāṣā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хинди m

  Roman: hindi m

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

  Lower Sorbian: hindišćina f

  Upper Sorbian: hindišćina (hsb) f

• Spanish: hindi (es) m
• Swahili: Kihindi
• Swedish: hindi (sv)
• Tajik: забони ҳиндӣ (zaboni hindī), ҳиндӣ (tg) (hindī)
• Tamil: ஹிந்தி (ta) (hinti), இந்தி (ta) (inti)
• Tatar: хинди (xindi)
• Telugu: హిందీ (te) (hindī), హిందీ భాష (te) (hindī bhāṣa), హిందీ మాట్లాడు ప్రజలు (hindī māṭlāḍu prajalu), ఉత్తరాది వారు (uttarādi vāru), ఉత్తర భారతదేశ జనాలు (uttara bhāratadēśa janālu)
• Thai: ภาษาฮินดู (paa-săa hin-duu)
• Turkish: Hintçe (tr)
• Ukrainian: хíндi m (xíndi), гі́нді (uk) m (híndi)
• 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 Hindi
2. an Indian

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

Further reading

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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• audio

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɪn.di/

Proper noun

Hindi n

1. Hindi (language)

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German

Pronunciation

• audio

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Noun

Hindi n

1. The Hindi language

Noun

Hindi m

1. A Hindi-speaking person

Further reading

• Hindi in Duden online

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Swahili

Proper noun

Hindi

1. Alternative form of Uhindi