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Definitions: Hindi |
HindiAdjective1. Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism; "the Hindu faith". Noun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Hindi" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
Etymology: Hindi \Hin"di\, noun. [Prop. Per. adjective meaning, Indian, Hindoo.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: HindiSynonyms: Hindoo (adj), Hindu (adj). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Hindi is an Indian language spoken in most states in northern and central India. It is an Indo-European language, more specifically a prakrit. Hindi became the official language of India on January 26, 1965 and is the third most spoken language in the world, after Chinese and English. About 600 million people speak, read and write Hindi, in India and abroad, and the total number of people who can understand the language exceeds 1.3 billion. In a number of countries including Fiji, Mauritius, Guyana, and Suriname Hindi is the majority language.
Linguists think of Hindi and Urdu as the same language, the difference being that Hindi is written in Devanagari and draws vocabulary from Sanskrit, while Urdu is written in Arabic script and draws on Persian and Arabic. The separation is largely a political one, for before the partition of India and Pakistan by the British, Hindi and Urdu were considered one and the same language, Hindustani.
Hindi's popularity has been helped by the Hindi film industry. These movies have an international appeal and now they have broken into the Western markets as well.
The beginnings of Hindi literature go back to the Prakrits that are a part of the classical Sanskrit plays. Tulasidas's Ramacharitamanas attained wide popularity. Modern masters include Sumitra Nandan Pant, Maithili Sharan Gupta, Mahadevi Varma, Ajneya.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hindi language."
Crosswords: Hindi |
| English words defined with "Hindi": baboo, babu ♦ Devanagari, Devanagari script ♦ Hindoostani, Hindostani, Hindustani ♦ Nagari, Nagari script ♦ Urdu. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Hindi": Indian and Iranian languages and cultures. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Hindi" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Asturian (Hindi), German (Hindi), Hungarian (Hindi), Italian (Hindi), Spanish (Hindi), Swedish (Hindi), Tagalog (no, not), Turkish (Turkey). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Hindi kita malimot (1973) | |
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Economic History | Trinidad and Tobago | Small percentages also speak Hindi, French patois, and several other dialects. (references) |
Uae | Radio and television broadcasts are primarily in English, Arabic, Hindi and Urdu. (references) | |
India | The government has recognized 18 languages as official; Hindi is the most widely spoken. (references) | |
Human Rights | Lebanon | Retired General Nadim Lteif, Coordinator of the Awnist movement, and Tawfiq Hindi, former political advisor of Samir Ja'Ja', were among those arrested. (references) |
Lebanon | Tawfiq Hindi, Ja'Ja's former political advisor, who authorities arrested in August, was charged with collaborating with the Israeli enemy, forming an association to harm the State's authority, and damaging the country's relation with a sisterly nation. (references) | |
Travel | Nepal | However, many businessmen can speak both Hindi and English. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Hindi" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hindi" is used about 99 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 99 | 32,870 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "Hindi": hindi-speaking, Hindi-urdu. | |
Ending with "Hindi": Non-hindi. | |
Containing "Hindi": non-hindi-speaking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hindi song | 1,735 | hindi dvd | 86 |
hindi english | 1,012 | hindi song download mp3 | 82 |
hindi | 991 | hindi news | 77 |
hindi mp3 | 681 | free hindi song | 75 |
hindi movie | 666 | hindi movie download | 74 |
hindi music | 511 | free hindi mp3 | 70 |
hindi song download | 330 | hindi font | 67 |
hindi mp3 song | 329 | new hindi movie | 67 |
hindi song lyrics | 200 | hindi sex | 63 |
hindi lyrics | 178 | bbc hindi | 63 |
free download hindi song | 165 | english to hindi translation | 61 |
hindi movie song | 164 | hindi movie review | 60 |
hindi mp3 download | 143 | hindi language | 57 |
hindi old song | 136 | hindi translation | 57 |
hindi ringtone | 127 | download free hindi mp3 song | 55 |
hindi film song | 126 | learn hindi | 54 |
hindi film | 103 | hindi actress | 54 |
english hindi dictionary | 101 | free hindi ringtone | 52 |
hindi music download | 88 | new hindi song | 52 |
hindi dictionary | 87 | hindi radio | 51 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Hindi"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Indishte, Indian (hindoo, hindu, indian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Asturian | Hindi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Хинди. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 印地語 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Hindština. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hindi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ινδικά. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Hindi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Hindi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 'ンディー語 (beach, beach coat, beach house, beach parasol, beach umbrella, beach volleyball, beach wear, beacon, beads, beagle, beaker, beam, beam antenna, beam rider, beast, beat, beat generation, Beatles, beaver, bee, beef, beefalo, beefsteak, beep, beer, beet, Hindustan, hint, Venus, virus, viva). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | 'ンディー". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | indihay hindustano, hindustani, hindi, Nuca (cervix, nape, naphtha, scruff). (various references) Hindusã. (various references) язык Хинди, Хинди. (various references) indijski (hindu, indian). (various references) Hindi. (various references) Hindi. (various references) าษาฮิน"ู. (various references) Hintçe, Hindu Dili. (various references) Мова Хінді. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "Hindi": shindies, shindig, shindigs. (additional references) | |
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"Hindi" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bhindi, Hanadib, handi, Hendi, Hendo, Hidipo, Hidri, Hidy, Hinden, Hindio, Hindlip, hindo, hindy, hinid, Hinlil, Hinni, Hinwick, Huandi, Hunde, Hundio, Hundith, Hysni, Pindi, Shindi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Hindi" (pronounced 'Hin"di'): Barramundi, Cadi, Dandi, Garibaldi, Ginglymodi, Jaborandi, jaguarondi, Mahdi, Maravedi, salmagundi, Yaguarundi, Yezdi. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-h-i-i-n" | |
-1 letter: hind, nidi. | |
-2 letters: din, hid, hin. | |
-3 letters: hi, id, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-h-i-i-n" | |
+1 letter: hiding. | |
+2 letters: chiding, dishing, hidings, hilding, hinnied, hirudin, hominid, shindig. | |
+3 letters: aphidian, childing, dighting, diminish, dinghies, ditching, echinoid, fiendish, finished, hildings, hirudins, histidin, hominids, hominoid, midnight, minished, ophidian, shindies, shindigs, shinnied, sphingid, tachinid, whidding, whinnied. | |
+4 letters: aphidians, blindfish, cowhiding, dehiscing, dithering, echinoids, hagriding, hiddenite, hindbrain, hindering, hindsight, histidine, histidins, hoidening, hominized, hominoids, inhabited, inherited, inhibited, inholding, inshrined, inveighed, midnights, nephridia, nightside, ninhydrin, ophidians, rawhiding, shielding, sphingids, tachinids, thymidine, whirlwind, windchill. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 6E 64 69 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .. -. -.. .. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01101110 01100100 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i n d i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 006E 0064 0069 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4275807075 |
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