Crossword clues for hindustani
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hindustani \Hindustani\ adj. of or pertaining to Hindustan or its inhabitants.
Hindustani \Hindustani\ n.
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a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India.
Syn: Hindu, Hindoo.
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a form of Hindi spoken around Delhi. See Hindoostanee.
Syn: Hindoostani, Hindoostanee, Hindostani.
Hindoostanee \Hin"doo*sta"nee\, Hindoostani \Hin"doo*sta"ni\, Hindustani \Hin"du*sta"ni\, a. [Hind. Hind[=u]st[=a]n[=i] an Indian, fr. Hind. and Per. Hind[=u]st[=a]n India.] Of or pertaining to the Hindoos or their language. -- n. The language of Hindustan; the name given by Europeans to the most generally spoken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words.
Wikipedia
Hindustani may refer to:
- of, from, or related to Hindustan, the north/north-western Indian subcontinent
- Hindustani language, an Indo-Aryan language, whose two official norms are Hindi and Urdu
- Hindustani people, a panethnicity of the Hindi Belt of India
- Hindustani classical music, a major style of Indian classical music
- Hindustani (film) or Indian, a 1996 film starring Kamal Haasan and Manisha Koirala
Usage examples of "hindustani".
Nell realized that the Fists must have blown the Nipponese and Hindustani Feeds at the same moment.
India he laboured indefatigably at the vernaculars, and his reward was an astonishingly rapid proficiency in Gujarati, Marathi, Hindustani, as well as Persian and Arabic.
She had been barely a year old when her parents had fled with her from France, and having lived ever since in the East, the Hindustani and court Persian of Oudh were as familiar to her as the Tamil and Telegu of the south, or the English tongue and her own native French.