hindi

1. 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

   BroaderSanskrit

   NarrowerHindustani

1. 1.

   of or relating to or supporting Hinduism

   “the Hindu faith”

   SynonymsHinduHindoo

Other forms of hindi

plural

hindis·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hindi

What does hindi mean?

hindi means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hindi?

hindi has 2 syllables: hin-di. The stress falls on "hin". In IPA it is /ˈhɪndi/.

What is another word for hindi?

Close synonyms include Hindu, Hindoo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hindi a common word?

hindi is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.