ہندی

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɦɪn.d̪iː/

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• Rhymes: -iː

ہِنْدی • (hindī) (Hindi spelling हिंदी)

1. belonging or relating to India, anything Indian
2. (historical) Indian^[1]
3. a kind of Indian agarwood
4. (linguistics) native, inherited in the Urdu language, as opposed to a borrowing.

ہِنْدی • (hindī) f (Hindi spelling हिंदी)

1. Modern Standard Hindi: a khariboli based tongue which happens to be standardised and Sanskritised version of the Hindustani language.
2. (linguistics) All the lects in the Hindi Belt, which also includes lects that do not belong to the Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages.
3. (obsolete) the language now known as Urdu.
   • 1884, Muhammad Husayn Batalwi, رِیوِیُو بَرَاہِینِ اَحْمَدِیَّہ [rīviyū barāhīn-i ahmadiyya, Review of Barāhīn-i-Aħmadiyyah], page 284:

     اور الہامات مولف براہین سے (انگریزی میں ہوں خوا ہندی و عربی وغیرہ) آج تک ایک بھی جھوٹ نہیں نکلا

     aur ilhāmāt muallif barāhīn se (aṅgrezī mẽ hõ xvā hindī o 'arbī vaġaira) āj tak bhī ek jhūṭ nahī̃ niklā

     And the revelations of the complier of these proofs (whether they be in English, or in Hindi, or Arabic etc.), to this day have never been proven false

   • 1988, Kaali Das Gupta Raza, Deewan-e-Ghalib, Sakar Publishers Private Limited, page 460:

     تیغ کی ہندی اگر تلوار ہے؛ فارسی پاگڑی کی بھی دستار ہے-

     teġ kī hindī agar talvār hai; fārsī pāgṛī kī bhī dastār hai-

     Teg of Hindi is Talwar; Pagri in Persian is called Dastar

ہِنْدی • (hindī) f (Hindi spelling हिंदी)

1. a sword of Indian steel^[2]
2. (figuratively) a sword-blow.

In linguistics, this term is used to differentiate between native or inherited terminology or sounds which are unique to the Urdu language (such as the retroflex sounds) as opposed to borrowed terminology (such as borrowings from Persian or Sanskrit). An example of this would be تَائے ہِنْدی (tāe hindī, “the Indian T”), as it was a sound or letter not used in original Perso-Arab script.