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  2. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    from Hindi and Urdu: An acknowledged leader in a field, from the Mughal rulers of India like Akbar and Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj Mahal. Maharaja from Hindi and Sanskrit: A great king. Mantra from Hindi and Sanskrit: a word or phrase used in meditation. Masala from Urdu, to refer to flavoured spices of Indian origin.

  3. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]

  4. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), [9] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India.

  5. List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

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    via Hindi: सुन्न ultimately from Sanskrit: सन sāna, a kind of Asian plant. [106] Swami through Hindi स्वामी swami ultimately from Sanskrit स्वामी svami, which means "a master". [107] Swastika from Sanskrit स्वस्तिक svastika, a religious symbol associated rituals and divination. Swastika ...

  6. Hinglish - Wikipedia

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    In India, Romanised Hindi is the dominant form of expression online. In an analysis of YouTube comments, Palakodety et al., identified that 52% of comments were in Romanised Hindi, 46% in English, and 1% in Devanagari Hindi. [9] Romanised Hindi is also used by some newspapers such as The Times of India.

  7. Hijra (South Asia) - Wikipedia

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    The Hindi word hijra may alternately be romanized as hijira, hijda, hijada, hijara, hijrah. This term is generally considered derogatory in Urdu and the term khwaja Sara is used instead. Khwaja Sara is sometimes seen as a more respectable term and has been reclaimed by the community given its precolonial origins and more accepted status within ...

  8. Hindi Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Many Hindi speakers with Internet use English Wikipedia instead. Given the great geographic spread of the Hindi language, the contributors to the Hindi project live in various areas around the country. There are also prolific users whose native language is not Hindi, as Hindi is a government language in India alongside English.

  9. Desi - Wikipedia

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    Desi (देसी / دیسی desī) is a Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) word, meaning 'national', ultimately from Sanskrit deśīya, derived from deśa (देश) 'region, province, country'. [3] The first known usage of the Sanskrit word is found in the Natya Shastra (~200 BCE), where it defines the regional varieties of folk performing arts , as ...