(n.) The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written.
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(1) Speaking in Hindi (her granddaughters translate for her with doctors), Chauhan says she did not tell her friends about the cancer.
(2) This region, on the margin of the vast northern state of Uttar Pradesh, is the Hindi heartland.
(3) In Study 2, Hindi-English bilinguals were tested in both their languages.
(4) To clarify these conflicting claims, EMG recordings were obtained from the palatoglossus (as well as the levator palatini) muscle of a native speaker of Hindi who produced CVC nonsense and meaningful syllables containing a nasal or nonnasal vowel in a symmetric consonantal environment.
(5) Radio broadcasts in China, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey will be axed, and shortwave broadcasts will cease in Hindi.
(6) URL: Kenyan police again disputed this explanation, with the deputy inspector general, Grace Kaindi, claiming that writing on a blackboard found at a junction near Hindi with could implicate the Mombasa Republic Movement (MRC) , a group that campaigns for independence of the coastal region.
(7) But Obama, who visited India in November 2010, charmed his hosts with flattering references to their country's heritage and booming economy, a stab at speaking Hindi in parliament and a promise of support for a permanent seat on the United Nations security council, a long-cherished ambition that is extremely unlikely to be fulfilled any time soon.
(8) Since its launch in 1997 around 15 million people have signed up to Shaadi.com ( "shaadi" is Hindi for marriage) with five million using it at any given time.
(9) Why?” Jyoti, initially given the name Nirbhaya, meaning fearless in Hindi, to preserve her anonymity, died after 13 days.
(10) Most of the output is in English, but there are programmes in Hindi-Urdu, Mirpuri, Gujarati, Bengali and Punjabi.
(11) It mistakenly referred to the Hindi festival of Navatri.
(12) Photograph: Lechal The Lechal shoes - which means “take me along” in Hindi - were originally developed to help navigation for the visually impaired, but applications for fitness and the sighted were quickly realised.
(13) Employing a Hindi adaptation of the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (MHQ), neuroticism level was assessed in 133 subjects with irritable bowel syndrome and compared with that in patients with organic bowel disease (33), healthy population (140) and known neurotics (110).
(14) He stressed the importance of the World Service and described the corporation's Arabic, Somali and Hindi networks as lying "at the core of what the BBC is doing".
(15) The third Briton– and final speaker – in the video, identified as Abu Dujana al-Hindi, describes his monologue as a "message to the brothers who stayed behind".
(16) And you certainly don't spot his qualities in most contemporary Hindi films.
(17) An AFP reporter in Hindi said all of the dead in the town were men, apart from a teenage boy reportedly shot as he tried to run away.
(18) But Puranik, who arranged the pregnancy, set a fixed rate, and the clients spoke neither Hindi nor Marathi, the languages Kalpita knows.
(19) There's a bit of everything, from Hindi punk rap to the self-referential Boom Skit about her time in America ("Brown girl, turn your shit down… Let you into Super Bowl, you try to steal Madonna's crown"), to the gorgeous lushness of Sexodus, a collaboration with The Weeknd .
(20) In India, it’s called the “jugaad”, a Hindi word that roughly translates as “innovative fix” or “improvised solution”.
Hindu
Definition:
(n.) A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.
(n.) Same as Hindoo.
Example Sentences:
(1) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(2) The Hindu belief system accommodates this by prescribing use in such a way that this effect becomes beneficial.
(3) It claims, with no factual basis, that Muslim men seek relationships with Hindu women in order to convert them and increase the Muslim population as a result of this.
(4) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
(5) The former tea seller who started his political career with a far right Hindu revivalist organisation promised "good times ahead".
(6) Ultimately, it suggests the question: had he actually been Muslim, or instead been Hindu, Jewish or atheist, would he be any less American?
(7) India’s caste system is alive and kicking – and maiming and killing | Mari Marcel Thekaekara Read more India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi , belongs to a party that is explicitly Hindu in character, while other parties exist to further the interests of, among others, India’s Muslims population as well as members of socially disempowered Dalit caste.
(8) On involvement with the guru and a new 'family,' the experienced increased well-being and periods of bliss, and their acceptance of mystic Hindu beliefs was solidified.
(9) The reason was that Hindu traditions were oraly transmitted and the records, written exclusively in Sanskrit, were incomplete.
(10) Narendra Modi , the Hindu nationalist politician who won power in India in May in a landslide election, arrives in New York on Friday for a gruelling schedule of more than 50 speeches, rallies, interviews, meetings and business breakfasts aimed at rebooting an often troubled relationship with the US.
(11) The recovery pulse and respiration were analysed to determine the level of physical fitness among the physical education and medical students of Banaras Hindu University.
(12) Many analysts believe Gandhi will struggle to confront Narendra Modi, the conservative, Hindu nationalist who is the candidate of the opposition Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) .
(13) The chapel is identified by the school as a Christian church but also hosts Hindu services and has been used for Buddhist meditations.
(14) Over the summer, Hindu nationalists in India performed ceremonial rituals for Trump in the hopes that their worship would help him get elected, so he can “ put an end to Islamic terrorism ”.
(15) Sitting in a side street listening to the sound of loud blasts and gunfire emanating from Nariman House, Rakash Bhaud, the local leader of the far-right Hindu party Shiv Sena, blamed the central government for the failures that, he said, had left them at the mercy of Pakistan-backed terrorists.
(16) But the riots appear to have done permanent damage to Hindu-Muslim relations in India, a country with 140 million Muslims.
(17) Small political parties have fared poorly in national elections, which have been dominated for the last two decades by the Hindu-nationalist BJP and the Congress party.
(18) It has been twinned with London’s St Pancras Old church – close to the St Pancras Eurostar terminal – since 2007 • 5 rue de Belzunce, paroissesvp.fr Secrets Temple Ganesh Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy At the north end of the Gare du Nord, just past the elevated metro line, is a colourful Hindu temple dedicated to the god Ganesh.
(19) Adoptions in India are currently governed by provisions or the 1956 Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act.
(20) His Hindu nationalist rhetoric and failure to swiftly curb the 2002 deadly anti-Muslim riots that swept Gujarat state when he was chief minister have stirred worries among critics about his ability to maintain secular peace.