hindustani

1. 1.

   a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India

   SynonymsHinduHindoo

   BroaderAsian

   NarrowerbrahmanKshatriyaRajputShudraVaisya

   Part ofHindustan
2. 2.

   a form of Hindi spoken around Delhi

   SynonymsHindoostaniHindostani

   BroaderHindi

1. 1.

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

Other forms of hindustani

plural

hindustanis·

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 hindustani

What does hindustani mean?

hindustani means "a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hindustani?

hindustani has 4 syllables: hin-du-sta-ni. The stress falls on "du".

What is another word for hindustani?

Close synonyms include Hindu, Hindoo, Hindoostani, Hindostani. 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 hindustani a common word?

hindustani is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.