(a.) Of or pertaining to the Hindoos or their language.
(n.) The language of Hindostan; the name given by Europeans to the most generally spoken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words.
Example Sentences:
(1) An ethereal extract of omum (Trachyspermum ammi; Hindustani: ajwan)--a frequently consumed spice--was found to inhibit platelet aggregation induced by arachidonic acid (AA), epinephrine and collagen; in this respect it was most effective against AA-induced aggregation.
(2) Hindustani, who have easier access to the product, were at higher risk than other ethnic groups.
Urdu
Definition:
(n.) The language more generally called Hindustanee.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifty-three years on, he has a broad Yorkshire accent but still speaks fluent Urdu: a boon in a constituency containing places such as Bradford, where 20% of the population are of Pakistani heritage.
(2) The term comes from the Urdu ( parda ) and Persian ( pardah ) word meaning veil or curtain and is also used to describe the practice of screening women from men or strangers.
(3) Yet few of them are encouraged to learn Bengali, Urdu or Polish in the playground, and I'm not aware that any school has tried to foster or formalise peer group learning of that kind.
(4) The most popular other modern languages are: Italian (5,136 entries); Urdu (4,519 entries); Polish (3,933 entries); Arabic (3,607 entries) and Chinese (3,042 entries).
(5) They didn't want me to be killed for" – and here she laughs – "writing a diary for BBC Urdu .
(6) Over the last year operations against MQM supporters and Urdu speakers have intensified,” Jalil said.
(7) Data for 80.7% of 473 Urdu children, 86.6% of 551 Gujarati children, and 84.4% of 1265 Punjabi children were available for the analysis.
(8) Most of the output is in English, but there are programmes in Hindi-Urdu, Mirpuri, Gujarati, Bengali and Punjabi.
(9) The former president spoke for an hour in Urdu and an hour in English, laying out pledges to restore the country to unity, prosperity and growth, but he made clear it was his leadership above all that was on offer.
(10) Mahmood’s career began as a schoolboy in Birmingham, helping his parents, both journalists, produce Urdu-language papers for the local Asian community.
(11) One of her colleagues, MP for Bassetlaw John Mann, had already written that Labour failed in Bradford West because they had "no Muslim doorknockers, no Urdu speaker, no hijab-wearing woman talking to Muslim women voters ".
(12) As part of a nutritional surveillance system of primary school children the relation between growth and vegetarianism in the Urdu, Gujarati, and Punjabi groups was explored.
(13) 1970s: Begins his career helping his parents produce Urdu-language paper.
(14) The results of the study indicate that there was consistency in the assignment of pure-tone frequencies to the dimensions of the figures and that the pattern of assignment was generally similar for both English- and Urdu-speaking subjects alike.
(15) The most popular in terms of entries were: Italian (5,136); Urdu (4,519); Polish (3,933); Arabic (3,607) and Chinese (3,042).
(16) Mahmood was the son of a journalist who pioneered the first Urdu-language newspaper in Britain and reporting came naturally.
(17) Leprosy rate amongst Tamil and Urdu speaking students was significanlty more than amongst Marathi and other language groups.
(18) As a schoolboy, Moudud wet his shirt with the blood of a young man killed demonstrating against the imposition of "Urdu and only Urdu" as the official language of Bangla-speaking East Pakistan .
(19) Three samples with preferred languages of English, Gujarati or Urdu were compared on a standardized interview with regard to symptom complaint, perception and attribution and also completed the General Health Questionnaire and Illness Behaviour Questionnaire.
(20) For example, Urdu subjects of the English proficiency produced frequency assignments that closely resembled those of the English-speaking subjects, while subjects of low English proficiency produced a pattern that was somewhat different, particularly with regard to round, complex figures.