हिंदुत्व

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Bengali হিন্দুত্ব (hindutto /⁠hindutto⁠/). Coined by Chandranath Basu in his 1892 work হিন্দুত্ব-হিন্দুর প্রকৃত ইতিহাস (hindutbô-hindur prôkŕtô itihas /⁠hindutto-hindur prokrito itihaś⁠/) and then further popularised by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Equivalent to हिंदू (hindū) +‎ -त्व (-tva).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɦɪn.d̪ʊt̪.ʋᵊ/, [ɦɪ̃n̪.d̪ʊt̪.wᵊ]

Noun

हिंदुत्व • (hindutva) m (Urdu spelling ہندوتوا)

1. Hindutva

Declension

Declension of हिंदुत्व (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	हिंदुत्व hindutva	हिंदुत्व hindutva
oblique	हिंदुत्व hindutva	हिंदुत्वों hindutvõ
vocative	हिंदुत्व hindutva	हिंदुत्वो hindutvo

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “हिंदुत्व”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press