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 (-i).

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 Belt, which also includes lects that do not belong to the Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages

Translations

language

• Afrikaans: Hindi (af)
• Amharic: ሕንድኛ (ḥəndəña)
• Arabic: هِنْدِيَّة‎ (ar) f (hindiyya)
• Armenian: հինդի (hy) (hindi), հնդկերեն (hy) (hndkeren)
• Assamese: হিন্দী (hindi)
• Asturian: hindi (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: hind (az)
• Basque: hindi (eu)
• Belarusian: хі́ндзі m (xíndzi)
• Bengali: হিন্দি (hindi)
• Breton: hindeg
• 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)

• Corsican: hindi (co) m
• Czech: hindština (cs) f
• Danish: hindi (da)
• Dhivehi: ހިންދީ‎ (dv) (hin̊dī)
• 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 f (hindī bhāṣā)
• Hungarian: hindi (hu)
• Icelandic: hindí (is)
• Indonesian: Hindi (id), bahasa Hindi
• Irish: Hiondúis f
• Italian: hindi (it) m
• Japanese: ヒンディー語 (ja) (ヒンディーご, hindīgo)
• Kannada: ಹಿಂದಿ (kn) (hindi)
• Khmer: ហិណ្ឌី (həndii)
• Korean: 힌디어 (ko) (hindieo)
• Lao: ພາສາຮິນດູ (phā sā hin dū)
• Latin: hindice
• Latvian: hindi
• Lithuanian: hindi (lt)
• Malay: Hindi, bahasa Hindi
• Malayalam: ഹിന്ദി (ml) (hindi)
• Maltese: Ħindi

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

  Bokmål: hindi (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: hindi m

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

  Cyrillic: хинди m

  Roman: hindi m

• Sindhi: ھِندِي‎
• Sinhalese: හින්දි (si) (hindi), හින්දි භාෂාව (hindi bhāṣāwa)
• 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-sǎa hin-duu), ภาษาฮินดี (paa-sǎa hin-dii)
• Turkish: Hintçe (tr)
• Ukrainian: хі́нді (uk) m (xíndi), гі́нді (uk) m (híndi)
• Urdu: ہندی‎ (ur) f (hindī)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Hin-đi (vi), tiếng Ấn Độ
• Volapük: hindiy (vo)
• Walloon: hindi
• Welsh: hindi
• West Frisian: Hindy
• 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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Proper noun

Hindi

1. a barangay in Bacacay, Albay in the Philippines.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɪn.di/

Proper noun

Hindi n

1. Hindi (language)

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German

Etymology

From Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪndiː/

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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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Hindi

1. Alternative form of Uhindi