Hindustani

comparative more Hindustani · superlative most Hindustani · alternative obsolete Hindoostane · alternative obsolete Hindostanee · alternative obsolete Hindoostanee · alternative obsolete Hindoostani · alternative obsolete Hindustanee · alternative obsolete Hindustane · alternative obsolete Hindōstāni

1. dated outside of South AsiaRelated to India, varying historically from the entire Indian subcontinent to India north of the Deccan, especially the plains of the Ganges and Jumna.
2. datedAny thing related to Mughal Empire.
3. entertainmentof or pertaining to Hindustani music.

plural Hindustanis · alternative obsolete Hindoostane · alternative obsolete Hindostanee · alternative obsolete Hindoostanee · alternative obsolete Hindoostani · alternative obsolete Hindustanee · alternative obsolete Hindustane · alternative obsolete Hindōstāni

1. A person from India, varying historically from the entire subcontinent to India north of the Deccan, especially the plains of the Ganges and Jumna.

alternative obsolete Hindoostane · alternative obsolete Hindostanee · alternative obsolete Hindoostanee · alternative obsolete Hindoostani · alternative obsolete Hindustanee · alternative obsolete Hindustane · alternative obsolete Hindōstāni

1. The pluricentric language of Hindi-Urdu, of which Hindi and Urdu are literary standards; the language from which Hindi and Urdu are derived.

   Swerg, in the Hinduſtànì language, means Heaven.

   1792, Sir William Jones, Dissertations and Miscellaneous Pieces Relating to the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature, of Asia, page 150

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   Kim watched the stars as they rose one after another in the still, sticky dark, till he fell asleep at the foot of the altar. That night he dreamed in Hindustani, with never an English word…

   1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter XI, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC

2. The Delhi dialect of that language.
3. historicalThe language which is now known as Urdu.

   Hindustani, or Urdu (i.e., camp language), is a dialect of Hindi, differing from it in its large admixture of Persian words, and in that it is usually printed in Persian or Arabic characters, while Hindi is commonly printed in Sanskrit letters.

   1895, Harlan Page Beach, The Cross in the Land of the Trident, page 59

4. historicalThe language which is now known as Hindi.

   Of the several languages derived from the Sanskrit, none exercises so general and wide-spread an influence over India as the Hindi, or Sir George's Common Hindustani.

   1873, Haris Chandra's magazine, page 119, column 1

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   But Mr. Lyall, in an article that is all too short, shows that Hindustani, or Hindi (for there is no essential difference between the two) possesses a continuous body of literature which represents intellectual life in Northern India during the past six centuries.

   1880, The Pall Mall Budget: Being a Weekly Collection of Articles Printed in the Pall Mall Gazette from Day to Day, with a Summary of News, page 977, column 2