Hindi (disambiguation)
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Hindi may refer to:
- the Hindi language, the name of an Indo-Aryan language with various definitions:
- in the narrowest sense, Modern Standard Hindi
- historically, any Central zone literary standard dialect or khari boli, including Braj Bhasha and Avadhi.
- in an intermediate sense, the dialect groups of Western Hindi (includes Khariboli) and Eastern Hindi (includes Fijian Hindi) taken together
- in a wide sense, the Hindi languages: Western Hindi, Eastern Hindi, Bihari (includes Surinamese Hindi), Pahari (includes Nepali), Rajasthani
- in Arabic names, al-Hindī "the Indian" (properly al-hindiyyu) can figure as nisba.
- Abu Eissa al-Hindi, a British terrorist of Indian origin.