Hindi
pronunciation
How to pronounce Hindi in British English:
UK [ˈhɪndi]
How to pronounce Hindi in American English:
US [ˈhɪndi]
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- Noun:
- the most widely spoken of modern Indic vernaculars; spoken mostly in the north of India; along with English it is the official language of India; usually written in Devanagari script
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to or supporting Hinduism
Word Origin
- Hindi
- 1825 as an adjective; 1880 as a language name, from Hind "India" (see Hindu) + -i, suffix expressing relationship.
Example
- 1. Samjhauta is the hindi and urdu word for compromise .
- 2. They then trained the participants to distinguish between pairs of phonemes that started hindi or zulu words .
- 3. This gives you a pretty hot clue as to the etymology of the word loot-it 's from hindi and sanskrit .
- 4. As I stood in front of it , two women came over to look , and helped me translate the hindi inscription .
- 5. She is not given to long discussion , speaking curtly in accented english or hindi .