Urdu

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Etymology

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Term is made up with هند + كی, literally means 'of Hind'.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ہِنْد کی (hind kīf (Hindi spelling हिंदकी)

  1. the people of Indian descent who have converted to Islam, found in Peshawar and other parts of Afghanistan.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Henry Yule (1903) “Hobson-Jobson: A glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive”, in dsal.uchicago.edu[1], archived from the original on 19 December 2023