ہندی

See also: هندي and هندی

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦɪn.d̪iː/

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• Rhymes: -iː

Adjective

ہِنْدی • (hindī) (Hindi spelling हिंदी)

1. belonging or relating to India, anything Indian
2. (historical) Indian
3. a kind of Indian agarwood
4. (linguistics) native, inherited in the Urdu language, as opposed to a borrowing.

Proper noun

ہِنْدی • (hindī) f (Hindi spelling हिंदी)

1. Modern Standard Hindi: a khariboli based tongue which happens to be standardized and Sanskritized version of the Hindustani language.
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.
4. (obsolete) A dialect spoken in Delhi, now known as Urdu.

Noun

ہِنْدی • (hindī) f (Hindi spelling हिंदी)

1. a sword of Indian steel
2. (figuratively) a sword-blow.

Usage notes

In linguistics, this term is used to differentiate between native or inherited terminology or sounds which are unique to the Urdu language (such as the retroflex sounds) as opposed to borrowed terminology (such as borrowings from Persian or Sanskrit). An example of this would be تَائے ہِنْدی (tāe hindī, “the Indian T”), as it was a sound or letter not used in original Perso-Arab script.