Essential English / Hindi Dictionary - आवश्यक अंग्रेजी / हिंदी शब्दकोश

 

 

About The English / Hindi Dictionary

Hindi is listed as the 4th most widely spoken language in the world. Of the 22 official languages and over 1,000 dialects of India, Hindi along with English is promoted by the government and viewed by over half the population as a "link-language."

Hindi हिन्दी is an Indo-European language spoken in India, Nepal, and by minorities in Fiji, United Arab Emirates, Trinidad, Suriname, South Africa, UK, USA and Australia.

Hindi is descended from Sanskrit, sometimes called "the mother of all Indo-European languages," or "Latin of the East." Hindi developed from the proto-Hindi खड़ी बोली Khaṛī Bolī (lit. "Pure language"). A mixture of Hindi and Urdu, called Hindustani (though this name is also applied to the Caribbean dialect of Hindi), is the form heard in most Bollywood films, that try to appeal to the widest audience possible. Hindustani is different than what is taught at the literary level and what is used by news programs and the government in India.

Hindi is written in the Devanāgarī (देवनागरी) script, shared with Nepali, Marathi and a number of other Indian languages. Devanagari is a form of alphabet called an abugida, as each consonant has an inherent vowel (a), that can be changed with the different vowel signs. Most consonants can be joined to one or two other consonants so that the inherent vowel is suppressed. The resulting form is called a ligature. Devanagari is written from left to right. Devanagari has no case distinction, i.e. no upper case letters.

This dictionary contains 12,500 terms in English and Hindi with their transliteration equivalent in the Roman Alphabet. Terms are also identified according to their part of speech.

We also publish a thesaurus with 16,000 terms and related words in Hindi and an unabridged English / Hindi Dictionary with 136,000 terms.

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