Hindu

See also: hindu and hindú

English

Alternative forms

• Hindoo (dated)

Etymology

Derived from Classical Persian هِنْدُو (hindū, “Indian, Hindu”), from Middle Persian hndwk' (Hindūg, “Indian”), from hnd (Hind, “India”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢 (hiⁿdu-, “India”), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “river, stream; Indus”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *síndʰuṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪnduː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

Hindu (not comparable)

1. Of, or relating to Hinduism, or to Hindus and their culture.

Synonyms

• Dharmic

Derived terms

• anti-Hindu
• Hindudom
• Hinduisation
• Hinduise
• Hinduism
• Hinduization
• Hinduize
• Hindumisia
• Hindumisic
• Hinduness
• Hindu numeral
• Hinduphobe
• Hinduphobia
• Hinduphobic
• Hindu push-up
• Hindu Rashtra
• Hindu squat

Related terms

• Hindutva
• Hindutvavadi

Translations

of or relating to Hinduism

• Arabic: هِنْدُوسِيّ (hindūsiyy)
• Bengali: হিন্দু (bn) (hindu)
• Breton: hindouat
• Burmese: ဟိန္ဒူ (hindu)
• Catalan: hindú
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印度教 (zh) (yìndùjiào)

• Czech: hinduistický (cs)
• Danish: hinduistisk, hinduisk (rarely seen)
• Dutch: hindoeïstisch (nl)
• Finnish: hindulainen (fi)
• Greek: ινδουϊστικός (indouïstikós)
• Gujarati: હિંદુ (hindu)
• Italian: indù (it), induista
• Japanese: ヒンズー教 (ja) (ヒンズきょう, hinzukyō)
• Korean: 힌두교 (ko) (hindugyo)
• Malayalam: ഹൈന്ദവ (haindava)
• Maori: hinitū, hinerū
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hinduisk, hinduistisk

  Nynorsk: hinduisk, hinduistisk

• Polish: hinduistyczny (pl), hinduski (pl)
• Portuguese: hindu (pt), hinduísta
• Russian: инду́сский (ru) (indússkij)
• Spanish: hindú (es)
• Swedish: hinduisk (sv), hinduistisk (sv)
• Vietnamese: Ấn-độ giáo
• Volapük: hindutik
• Welsh: Hindŵaidd

of or relating to Hindus and their culture

• Arabic: هِنْدُوسِيّ (hindūsiyy)
• Bengali: হিন্দু (bn) (hindu)
• Catalan: hindú
• Danish: hinduistisk, hinduisk (rarely seen)
• Finnish: hindulainen (fi)
• Greek: ινδουϊστικός (indouïstikós)
• Gujarati: હિંદુ (hindu)
• Hindi: हिंदू (hi) (hindū)
• Malayalam: ഹിന്ദുക്കളുടെ (hindukkaḷuṭe)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hinduisk, hinduistisk

  Nynorsk: hinduisk, hinduistisk

• Portuguese: hindu (pt)
• Russian: инду́сский (ru) (indússkij)
• Spanish: hindú (es)
• Volapük: hindutanik (person), hindutik

Noun

Hindu (plural Hindus)

1. A person adhering to the Hindu religion (Hinduism).
2. (dated) Any native inhabitant of Hindustan.
3. (North-West Frontier Province of British India, military, obsolete) A bunnia (merchant or trader) with a company of soldiers.
4. (dated) A person of Indian religion and race.

Synonyms

• Sanatani, Sanatanist (revivalist, conservative)
• bhakt (a devotee; may sometimes be derogatory)

Hypernyms

• religionist

Coordinate terms

religious adherentsedit

• agnostic
• Asatruar
• atheist
• Baháʼí
• Buddhist
• Christian
• deist
• Druid
• Druze
• Eckist
• heathen
• Hindu
• Jain
• Jedi
• Jew
• Mormon
• Mormonist
• Muslim
• Odinist
• pagan
• Pastafarian
• Quaker
• Raëlian
• Rastafarian
• Rodnover
• Samaritan
• Shintoist
• Sikh
• Taoist
• Unitarian Universalist
• Wiccan
• Yahwist
• Yazidi
• Zoroastrian

Translations

religious adherent

• Arabic: هِنْدُوسِيّ m (hindūsiyy)
• Bengali: হিন্দু (bn) (hindu), ইন্দু (bn) (indu)
• Breton: hindouad m
• Catalan: hindú m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印度教徒 (zh) (yìndùjiàotú)

• Czech: hinduista (cs) f
• Danish: hindu c, hinduist (rarely seen)
• Dutch: hindoe (nl) m
• Finnish: hindu (fi)
• French: hindou (fr) m, hindoue (fr) f, indou (fr) m, indoue (fr) f
• German: Hindu (de) m or f, Hindufrau f
• Greek: ινδουιστής (el) m (indouistís)
• Gujarati: હિંદુ m (hindu)
• Hindi: हिन्दू (hi) m (hindū), सनातनी (hi) f (sanātnī) (conservative, revivalist)
• Hungarian: hindu (hu)
• Italian: indù (it), induista
• Japanese: ヒンズー人 (ヒンズーじん, hinzūjin), ヒンドゥー人 (ヒンドゥーじん, hindūjin), (also "Indian") 印度人 (いんどじん, indojin)
• Kazakh: үндіс (ündıs)
• Korean: 힌두교 신자 (hindugyo sinja)
• Malayalam: ഹിന്ദു (ml) (hindu)
• Maori: Hinerū
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hindu m

  Nynorsk: hindu m

• Persian: هندو (fa) (hendu)
• Polish: hinduista (pl) m, hinduistka (pl) f, hindus m, hinduska f
• Portuguese: hinduísta m or f
• Russian: инду́с (ru) m (indús), инду́ска (ru) f (indúska)
• Spanish: hindú (es) m or f, hinduista (es) m or f
• Swahili: Mhindu
• Swedish: hindu (sv) c
• Tamil: இந்து (ta) (intu)
• Telugu: హిందువు (te) (hinduvu)
• Urdu: ہندو m (hindū)
• Volapük: hindutan, hihindutan (male), jihindutan (female)
• Welsh: Hindŵ m

See also

• Saiva, Saivite (a worshipper of Shiva)
• Sakta (a worshipper of the goddess Shakti)
• Vaishnava (a worshipper of Vishnu)

Anagrams

• hundi, unhid

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

Hindu m (strong, genitive Hindu or Hindus, plural Hindu or Hindus, feminine Hindu or Hindufrau)

1. Hindu (male or unspecified)

Declension

Declension of Hindu [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Hindu	die	Hindu, Hindus
genitive	eines	des	Hindu, Hindus	der	Hindu, Hindus
dative	einem	dem	Hindu	den	Hindu, Hindus
accusative	einen	den	Hindu	die	Hindu, Hindus

Derived terms

• Hinduglaube
• Hindugott
• Hinduismus
• Hindukunst
• Hindukusch
• Hindustan

Related terms

• hinduistisch
• Neohinduismus
• neohinduistisch
• Neuhinduismus
• neuhinduistisch

Noun

Hindu f (genitive Hindu, plural Hindu or Hindus, masculine Hindu)

1. Hindu (female)

Declension

Declension of Hindu [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Hindu	die	Hindu, Hindus
genitive	einer	der	Hindu	der	Hindu, Hindus
dative	einer	der	Hindu	den	Hindu, Hindus
accusative	eine	die	Hindu	die	Hindu, Hindus

Further reading

• “Hindu” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Hindu (Gläubiger)” in Duden online
• “Hindu (Gläubige)” in Duden online

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhindu]
• Hyphenation: Hin‧du
• Rhymes: -du

Proper noun

Hindu

1. (astronomy) Indus

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Hindu	—
accusative	Hindut	—
dative	Hindunak	—
instrumental	Hinduval	—
causal-final	Hinduért	—
translative	Hinduvá	—
terminative	Hinduig	—
essive-formal	Hinduként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Hinduban	—
superessive	Hindun	—
adessive	Hindunál	—
illative	Hinduba	—
sublative	Hindura	—
allative	Hinduhoz	—
elative	Hinduból	—
delative	Hinduról	—
ablative	Hindutól	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Hindué	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Hinduéi	—

Possessive forms of Hindu

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Hindum	—
2nd person sing.	Hindud	—
3rd person sing.	Hinduja	—
1st person plural	Hindunk	—
2nd person plural	Hindutok	—
3rd person plural	Hindujuk	—