ہنڈی

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit हुण्डिका (huṇḍikā). Cognate with Punjabi ਹੁੰਡੀ (huṇḍī) / ہُنڈی (hunḍī), Sindhi هُنڊِي / हुंडी / 𑋞𑋣𑋟𑋈𑋢 (huṇḍī), Assamese হুণ্ডী (hundi), Bengali হুন্ডি (hunḍi), Odia ହୁଣ୍ଡି (huṇḍi), Gujarati હૂંડી (hū̃ḍī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦʊn.ɖiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: ہُنْ‧ڈی

Noun

ہُنْڈی • (hunḍī) f (Hindi spelling हुंडी)

1. hawala (money transfer)
2. cheque, bill

Declension

Declension of ہنڈی
	singular	plural
direct	ہُنْڈِی (hunḍī)	ہُنْڈِیاں (hunḍiyā̃)
oblique	ہُنْڈِی (hunḍī)	ہُنْڈِیوں (hunḍiyō̃)
vocative	ہُنْڈِی (hunḍī)	ہُنْڈِیو (hunḍiyō)

Descendants

• → English: hundi

Further reading

• “ہنڈی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “هنڐي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1237
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ہنڈی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 679
• “ہنڈی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• John Shakespear (1834) “هنڐي”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1875
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “huṇḍikā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 817