Hindustani

See also: hindustani and hindustání

English

Alternative forms

• Hindoostane, Hindostanee, Hindoostanee, Hindoostani, Hindustanee, Hindustane, Hindōstāni (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani ہِنْدُوسْتانی (hindūstānī) / हिंदुस्तानी (hindustānī), from Classical Persian هِنْدُوسْتَانِی (hindūstānī), from هِنْدُو (hindū, “Hindu, Indian”) + ـسْتَان (-stān, “land”) + adjective suffix ـِی (-ī). Equivalent to Hindustan +‎ -i.

Adjective

Hindustani (comparative more Hindustani, superlative most Hindustani)

1. (dated outside of South Asia) Related to India, varying historically from the entire Indian subcontinent to India north of the Deccan, especially the plains of the Ganges and Jumna.

Translations

related to India, or historically the entire Indian subcontinent

• Arabic: هِنْدُوسْتَانِيّ (hindūstāniyy)
• Finnish: hindustanilainen
• Hindi: हिन्दुस्तानी (hi) (hindustānī)
• Hungarian: hindusztáni (hu)
• Kashmiri: ہِندوستٲنؠ (hindōstạ̄n')
• Marathi: हिन्दुस्तानी (hindustānī)
• Portuguese: hindustani (pt), indostani
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хиндустански m

  Roman: hindustanski (sh) m

• Urdu: ہِنْدُوسْتانی (hindūstānī)

Noun

Hindustani (plural Hindustanis)

1. A person from India, varying historically from the entire subcontinent to India north of the Deccan, especially the plains of the Ganges and Jumna.

Translations

person from India or the Indian subcontinent

• Finnish: hindustanilainen
• Hindi: हिन्दुस्तानी (hi) (hindustānī)
• Irish: Hiondústánach m
• Kashmiri: ہِندوستٲنؠ (hindōstạ̄n')
• Marathi: हिन्दुस्तानी (hindustānī)
• Portuguese: hindustani (pt) m or f, indostani m or f
• Russian: хиндуста́нец m (xindustánec), хиндуста́нка f (xindustánka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хиндустанац m, Хиндустанка f

  Roman: Hindustanac (sh) m, Hindustanka f

• Swedish: hindustani (sv)
• Ukrainian: гіндуста́нець m (hindustánecʹ), гіндуста́нка f (hindustánka)
• Urdu: ہِنْدُوسْتانی (hindūstānī)

Proper noun

Hindustani

1. (historical) The language which is now known as Urdu.
   • 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter XI, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC:

     Kim watched the stars as they rose one after another in the still, sticky dark, till he fell asleep at the foot of the altar. That night he dreamed in Hindustani, with never an English word…

2. The Delhi dialect of that language.
3. (neologism, informal) The combined languages of Hindi-Urdu.

Synonyms

• Hindi-Urdu

Translations

language

• Arabic: هِنْدُوسْتَانِيّ m (hindūstāniyy)
• Armenian: հինդուստանի (hy) (hindustani)
• Bulgarian: хиндуста́ни m (hindustáni), хиндуста́нски m (hindustánski)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印度斯坦語／印度斯坦语 (zh) (yìndùsītǎnyǔ)

• Czech: hindustánština f, hindustánsky
• Danish: hindustani n
• Dutch: Hindoestani
• Finnish: hindustani
• French: hindoustani (fr) m
• German: Hindustani (de) n
• Hindi: हिन्दुस्तानी (hi) f (hindustānī), हिन्दवी (hi) f (hindavī), हिंदवी (hi) f (hindvī), हिंदुई (hi) f (hinduī), हिन्दुई (hi) f (hinduī)
• Hungarian: hindusztáni (hu)
• Irish: Hiondústáinis f
• Japanese: ヒンドゥスターニー語 (hindusutānīgo)
• Kashmiri: ہِندوستٲنؠ (hindōstạ̄n')
• Korean: 힌두스탄어 (hinduseutaneo)
• Marathi: हिन्दुस्तानी f (hindustānī)
• Persian: هِنْدوسْتانی (fa) (hendustâni)
• Polish: hindustani n
• Portuguese: hindustani (pt) m, indostani m
• Russian: хиндуста́ни (ru) m (xindustáni), хиндуста́нский m (xindustánskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хиндустански m

  Roman: hindustanski (sh) m

• Ukrainian: гіндуста́ні (uk) f (hindustáni)
• Urdu: ہِنْدُوسْتانی f (hindūstānī)

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Hindi, hin ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Urdu, urd ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Fijian Hindustani, hif ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Caribbean Hindustani, hns ⁠