হিন্দকী

Bengali

Alternative forms
  • হিংদকী (hiṅdoki)

Etymology

Term is made up with هند (হিন্দ) + كی (কী), literally means 'of Hind'.

Pronunciation
  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /ɦind̪ki/, [ˈɦind̪kiˑ]
  • (Dhaka) IPA(key): /ɦind̪ki/, [ˈɦind̪kiˑ]

Noun

হিন্দকী • (hindoki)

  1. the people of Indian descent who have converted to Islam, found in Peshawar and other parts of Afghanistan.[1]

References
  1. Henry Yule (1903) “Hobson-Jobson: A glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive”, in dsal.uchicago.edu‎, archived from the original on 19 December 2023
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