Example sentences for: hindi

How can you use “hindi” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Students also use college language classrooms to try to recapture the heritage languages they may have lost (for example, Hindi or Urdu), or ones they may never have acquired (Yiddish).

  • When the police control unruly mobs by wielding wooden batons (lathi in Hindi), they make a “lathi-charge.”

  • Persian was the ultimate source of 67 and Arabic of 55 (the latter figure includes 16 words that entered Hindi via Persian and are combinations of Arabic and Persian elements).

  • For example, out of a sampling of 481 Hindi loanwords (that is, I know, an odd number for a sampling of any kind, but it happens to be the number I had carded as of the moment I began writing this article), 167 were borrowed by Hindi from Sanskrit and another four from Pakrit.

  • Verandah is Anglo-Indian from Hindi or Bengali, which got it from Portuguese.


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