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Hindi   /hˈɪndi/   Listen
Hindi

noun
1.
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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"Hindi" Quotes from Famous Books



... Romaic, of conversing "in good Castillian with 'mine host'," and of exchanging salutations in German with another resident at the fonda. Later the Colonel had the gratification of startling the Unknown by replying to some remark of his in Hindi; but only momentarily, for he showed himself "delighted on finding I was an Indian, and entered freely, and with depth and acuteness, on the affairs of the East, most of which part of the world he had ...
— The Life of George Borrow • Herbert Jenkins
... Grammar of the Dravidian Languages," 2d ed. p.423: "Professor Max Mller, noticing that the majority of Tamil infinitives terminate in ka, supposed this ka to be identical in origin with k, the dative-accusative case-sign of the Hindi, and concluded that the Dravidian infinitive was the accusative of a verbal noun. It is true that the Sanskrit infinitive and Latin supine in tum is correctly regarded as an accusative, and that our English ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... listen, and * Let all in this assembly silent be. Heed ye my words which are of meaning deep, * Nor lies my speech; 'tis truest verity. I'm slain[FN196] by longing and by ardent love; * My slayer's the pearl of fair virginity. She hath a jet black eye like Hindi blade, * And bowed eyebrows shoot her archery My heart assures me our Imam is here, * This age's Caliph, old nobility: Your second, Ja'afar highs, is his Wazir; * A Sahib,[FN197] Sahib-son of high degree: The third ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton


Words linked to "Hindi" :   Sanskritic language, Hinduism, Hindustani, Hindostani, Sanskrit, Hindoo, Hindu, Hindoostani


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