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An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
Hindustani, the lingua franca of Northern India and Pakistan, has two standardised registers: Hindi and Urdu.Grammatical differences between the two standards are minor but each uses its own script: Hindi uses Devanagari while Urdu uses an extended form of the Perso-Arabic script, typically in the Nastaʿlīq style.
Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence). Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect. [24] Irish: ar ball can mean "a while ago" or "in a little bit/later on" [25]
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), [9] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India.
Hinglish is the macaronic hybrid use of English and Hindi. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Its name is a portmanteau of the words Hindi and English. [6]In the context of spoken ...
Delinquent may refer to: Delinquent (royalist) , Royalists whose estates had been seized during the English Civil War A juvenile delinquent , often shortened as delinquent, a young person (under 18) who fails to do that which is required by law
The term delinquent usually refers to juvenile delinquency, and is also generalised to refer to a young person who behaves an unacceptable way. [ 3 ] In the United States, a juvenile delinquent is a person who commits a crime and is under a specific age. [ 4 ]
Sati appears in Hindi and Sanskrit texts, where it is synonymous with 'good wife'; [17] the term suttee was commonly used by Anglo-Indian English writers. [18] The word sati , therefore, originally referred to the woman, rather than the rite.