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
<noun.communication> [ adj ]
of or relating to or supporting Hinduism
<adj.pert> the Hindu faith
Hindi \Hin"di\, n. [Prop. a Per. adj. meaning, Indian, Hindoo.] The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindus. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written. --Whitworth.
In the visitor's book I found an entry in Hindi, kindly translated by the writer. It was a cryptic piece of Indian advice.
Should Hindi prevail, he proposes that the shoot be canceled and Tobash's $10,000 be forfeited to the park.
Hindi is the official language of India, spoken by more than half its 880 million people, especially in north and central India, where Bhopal is located.
One man against one man." Tobash said he did not know Hindi and the challenge appeared to be a publicity stunt.
Riots have broken out in south India over what people view as the forcible imposition of Hindi, which is mainly spoken in the country's north.
The annual mortification of the flesh is done to pay homage to the Hindi deity Lord Subramaniam, seek atonement, give thanks and fulfill vows.
Doordarshan, which means "seen from afar" in Hindi, debuted in New Delhi in 1965 with black-and-white broadcasts.
They fear the missile named "AGNI," which means "fire" in Hindi, may carry nuclear warheads.
The people are Agama Hindi, a mixture of Hindu and the indigenous animistic religion that's practiced nowhere else on earth.
A film about childhood, about Hollywood, about good and evil; a film that embodies for him the West's answer to the garish Hindi musicals he grew up with. Rushdie likes fancy and surmise as much as provable fact.