The story
- Hindustani · borrowed from
- English todayDeobandi
From Hindustani دیوبندی / देवबन्दी (devbandī); which means "of Deoband, Deobandi," from Devband, Deoband, town in Uttar Pradesh, India, the location of the Islamic seminary in which the movement began.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.