hindi
n. uncountablen. an official language of India that is spoken by hundreds of millions of people. It is written in a script called Devanagari.
n. an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in northern and central India, serving as one of the official languages of the Union. It is written in the Devanagari script and shares a common colloquial base with Urdu.
She is learning to speak Hindi for her trip to Delhi.
Many Bollywood films are produced in Hindi, making the language popular across different regions of the world.
While Hindi serves as a lingua franca across much of northern India, its formal register draws heavily from Sanskrit vocabulary, distinguishing it from the Persian-influenced lexicon of Urdu.
Borrowed from Hindi हिंदी (hindī), from Classical Persian هِنْدِی (hindī). By surface analysis, Hind + -i.
Likely derived from Tagalog or Central Bikol.
When referring to the language, it is uncountable and always capitalized.