What does hindustani mean?

Definitions for hindustani
ˌhɪn dʊˈstɑ ni, -ˈstæn ihin·dus·tani

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Hindu, Hindoo, Hindustaninoun

    a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India

  2. Hindustani, Hindoostani, Hindostaniadjective

    a form of Hindi spoken around Delhi

  3. Hindustaniadjective

    of or relating to or characteristic of Hindustan or its people or language

Wiktionary

  1. Hindustaniadjective

    Related to India, or historically the entire Indian subcontinent.

  2. Hindustaninoun

    A person from India (historically the entire Indian subcontinent).

  3. Hindustaninoun

    The name of the language which constitutes the Hindi and Urdu registers.

  4. Etymology: From Hindustani हिन्दुस्तानी / (hindustānī), from Persian (hend = Hindu) + Persian (stān = land) + adjective suffix (ī) resulting in (hendustānī = land of the Hindus), from hend is derived from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu), Sanskrit name for the Indus River.

ChatGPT

  1. hindustani

    Hindustani generally refers to an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken in North India and Pakistan, also known as Hindi-Urdu or Hindustani language. It is characterized by extensive linguistic and cultural interchange between the Persian-influenced Urdu and the Sanskrit-influenced Hindi. The term can also relate to anything associated with the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent or the people who live there.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Hindustaniadjective

    of or pertaining to the Hindoos or their language

  2. Hindustaninoun

    the language of Hindostan; 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

  3. Etymology: [Hind. Hindstn an Indian, fr. Hind. and Per. Hindstn India.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Hindustani

    Hindoostanee, hin-dōō-stan′ē, n. a dialect of Hindi, also called Urdū, the chief official and commercial language of India.—Also adj.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Hindustani

    the official and common language of India.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hindustani in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hindustani in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of hindustani in a Sentence

  1. Ranveer Singh:

    This film is something that takes a genre of music that has essentially been underground in India so far and brings it to the mainstream, i want this to be the beginning of something because I really think Hindustani hip-hop is a revolution. It's more than just music. It's a musical and social revolution.

  2. Ranveer Singh:

    I want this to be the beginning of something because I really think Hindustani hip-hop is a revolution. It's more than just music. It's a musical and social revolution.

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