Words similar to hindi

Example sentences for: hindi

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

Some single Hindi words have given rise to two different loanwords.
Dhoni or doni `fishing or coastal trading vessel,' for example, may have entered English from Hindi, Marathi, Kanarese (or Canarese), or Telugu; dinghy `small boat' from Hindi or Bengali; kathiawari `breed of horses' from Hindi or Gujurati; khuskhus `aromatic grass, vetiver' from Hindi or Persian; kirpan `Sikh dagger' from Hindi or Punjabi; and nagkasser or nagkesar `tree'.
When the police control unruly mobs by wielding wooden batons (lathi in Hindi), they make a “lathi-charge.”
According to Indian scientists, says the NYT , the hydrogen bomb (code-named Shakti-1, from the Hindi word for "power") they set off is considerably smaller than the largest hydrogen bombs tested by the U.S., Russia and the other established nuclear powers.
Verandah is Anglo-Indian from Hindi or Bengali, which got it from Portuguese.