(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.
Example Sentences:
(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”.
Romani
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2012-13, 12% of prisoners at HMP Elmley, Kent, 11% at HMP Gloucester and 10% at HMP Winchester identified themselves as being Gypsy, Romany or Traveller.
(2) Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, of Romany descent, he began singing his own, blues-based songs in local folk clubs, but said he was forced to leave the area because he was picked on by a local gang.
(3) The oppression of Europe's Romany has lasted thousands of years and the case of Maria is merely the tip of the iceberg.
(4) • The Gypsy Holocaust is so often forgotten ( Editorial , 27 January) and the numbers of murdered Romany groups frequently underestimated, not least because so many were killed in small numbers at the roadside or in the woods, often providing a dress rehearsal for the murder of Jews.
(5) What is rarer, however, is the "pure blood" or tatcho Romany.
(6) Dolce & Gabbana celebrates motherhood at Milan fashion week Read more While same-sex partnerships and adoption are yet to be legalised in Italy , Romani said other people’s access to such rights should not be opposed on principle.
(7) One in 20 inmates – or 5% – told Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) that they considered themselves to be Gypsy, Romany or Traveller in 2012-13, compared with 4% the previous year.
(8) Carr later demonstrates his own profound appreciation of the Romany culture and traditions he affects to despise with the following Wildean quip: "When people say, 'These travelling people, we've got to move them on,' I say: 'Isn't that just playing into their hands?'
(9) There had been another poignant moment earlier that afternoon when Saunders' father had suggested that, for Romany Gypsies, "living in a home without wheels is the same as birds being kept in a cage".
(10) But for the moment, only words.” According to prosecutors, the now-defunct deal quietly negotiated between Buzzi and Leroy Merlin representatives would have seen the French firm pay about €10m to relocate, rebuild, and expand the Romany facility known as La Barbuta.
(11) Fictional stereotypes of Romany women revolve around their supposed sexual licentiousness – Carmen or Esmeralda – or their psychic powers; whereas Romany men have been portrayed at best as symbols of wild freedom, as in DH Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy or at worst, as liars and thieves.
(12) The ruling by Mr Justice Holman, over the meaning of the 1989 Children's Act, comes down strongly in favour of the rights of the family who are "seventh generation fairground" travellers – descended from Romany Gypsies and circus workers.
(13) Tucked away in a corner of a bleak industrial estate, with the flatlands of east London stretched out around us, the new boxing home for the teenage Romany Gypsy fighter is still a strange and draining place.
(14) Indeed, there is nothing more the Romany like to do than fight among themselves over who is the purest Gypsy, but one only needs to take a glance at Britain's Romany community to realise there has undoubtedly been a great deal of intermarriage.
(15) Incensed, he grills Brian on the Latin grammar, finally achieving the correct "Romani ite domum".
(16) Instead, Maria has become a hot topic for the non-Romany commentators who have dominated the defence of the Roma.
(17) In a recent study by Miceli, Silveri, Romani, and Caramazza (Brain and Language, 1989, 36, 447-492), free speech records for 20 unselected Italian-speaking agrammatic patients were analyzed along a variety of linguistic parameters, with particular emphasis on substitution and omission errors within traditional "part of speech" categories.
(18) Would it have been better, for example, to have sued for peace with Hitler in 1939 and saved the lives of the 60 million who died in the second world war, if the price for that was to allow the extermination of a lesser number of Jews, homosexuals, Romanies and other persecuted minorities?
(19) While the Irish are strict Catholics, and the Romanies are not religious, these groups have taboos about sexuality that affect practice of contraception.
(20) It’s not that well known locally – to get there take a bus from Sorrento to Capo di Sorrento, and then it’s a long walk down to the Roman ruins (a signpost points to i ruderi romani ) and the bathing waters.