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Pages in category "Hindi words and phrases" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aam Aadmi;
A word for female Hindu deities. Bhajan A Hindu devotional song as a spiritual practice. Bhakti A Hindu word for faith, devotion or love to god. Bharat India, and also used as a male name. Bharata Brother of Rama. Bhargava The descendants of the great rishi, Bhrigu. Bhasmasura Ancient legendary character in Hinduism. Bhavana Sense for calling ...
Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [2]
The formal Hindi standard, from which much of the Persian, Arabic and English vocabulary has been replaced by neologisms compounding tatsam words, is called Śuddh Hindi (pure Hindi), and is viewed as a more prestigious dialect over other more colloquial forms of Hindi. Excessive use of tatsam words sometimes creates problems for native ...
The Arabic word cognates with Syriac-Aramaic word כוחלא / ܟܘܚܠܐ kuḥla. Both words derived from Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 guẖlu(m) meaning stibnite. The English word alcohol is a loan of the Arabic word (via Middle Latin and French; originally in the sense "powder of antimony". The modern meaning is from the 18th century).
[35] [36] Among these, /f, z/, also found in English and Portuguese loanwords, are now considered well-established in Hindi; indeed, /f/ appears to be encroaching upon and replacing /pʰ/ even in native (non-Persian, non-English, non-Portuguese) Hindi words as well as many other Indian languages such as Bengali, Gujarati and Marathi, as ...
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The "lipstick" variant of the phrase is more modern (the word "lipstick" itself was only coined in 1880). [2] The rhetorical effect of linking pigs with lipstick was explored in 1926 by Charles F. Lummis , in the Los Angeles Times , when he wrote "Most of us know as much of history as a pig does of lipsticks."