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Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, is the vernacular form of two standardized registers used as official languages in India and Pakistan, namely Hindi and Urdu.It comprises several closely related dialects in the northern, central and northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent but is mainly based on Khariboli of the Delhi region.
from Hindi and Urdu: An acknowledged leader in a field, from the Mughal rulers of India like Akbar and Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj Mahal. Maharaja. from Hindi and Sanskrit: A great king. Mantra. from Hindi and Sanskrit: a word or phrase used in meditation. Masala.
Arunachal Pradesh (2) Arunachal Pradesh (English) Land of the dawn-lit mountains. In Sanskrit, aruṇa means "dawn-lit" and achala "mountains". The state is located in the easternmost part of India and gets first sunrise in the country. [5] Assam (3) অসম (Assamese) "Uneven" or from "Ahom".
t. e. Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), [9] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India.
By the 13th century, Hindustan emerged as a popular alternative name of India, meaning the "land of Hindus". [ 40 ] Among the earliest known records of 'Hindu' with connotations of religion may be in the 7th-century CE Chinese text Record of the Western Regions by Xuanzang , [ 36 ] and 14th-century Persian text Futuhu's-salatin by 'Abd al-Malik ...
v. t. e. Hindustani (standardized Hindi and standardized Urdu) has been written in several different scripts. Most Hindi texts are written in the Devanagari script, which is derived from the Brāhmī script of Ancient India. Most Urdu texts are written in the Urdu alphabet, which comes from the Persian alphabet.
The term Old Hindi is a retrospectively coined term, to indicate the ancestor language of Modern Standard Hindi, which is the official language in the Indian Republic.The term Hindi literally means Indian in Classical Persian, and was also referred as Hindustani to denote that it was the language of the Hindustan's capital, predominantly during the Delhi Sultanate.
The following is an alphabetical (according to Hindi's alphabet) list of Sanskrit and Persian roots, stems, prefixes, and suffixes commonly used in Hindi. अ (a) [ edit ]