* Sanskrit, as well as many of its descendants, like Hindi and Bengali, uses a lossless transliteration system for representing words in the Roman alphabet.

* The source language or writing system ( English, French, Arabic, Hindi, Kazakh in Latin alphabet, Chinese, Japanese, etc.

The traditional Devanagari alphabet is still used in India and Nepal to write Hindi and Nepalese respectively, but in Sylhet it has been tampered with in early nineteenth century to reduce the number of vowels and consonants, and eradicated all compound letters, to make it simple for the common folks.

Sholay became the biggest hit in the history of Hindi cinema and is listed by Indiatimes as one of the " Top 25 must see Bollywood films of all time ".

While the couplets that come down from him are representative of a latter-Prakrit Hindi bereft of Arabo-Persian vocabulary, his influence on court viziers and writers must have been transcendental, for a century after his death Quli Qutub Shah was considered speaking a language that might have possibly been Urdu.

Being private with conditional access it is a must visit for all beach lovers who want to enjoy their solitude and admire its Eco-friendly pristine beauty. For these reasons, this palace has been used as the set in many Hindi films and has now become a popular tourist destination.

This poem, entitled “ Haldighati ”, is must read for all lovers of Hindi poetry.

It must be underlined that Saifa Banu ( 1860-1926 ) is regarded as the first female poet of Bangladesh ; she was a step-sister of the mystic poet Hasan Raja, and composed lyrics in Bengali, Urdu and Hindi.

The four representative poets of this era represent the best in Hindi Poetry.

At first she attended the 2006 Film Festival along with filmmaker Karan Johar to represent the Hindi film industry and promote Johar's then-forthcoming Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, which featured Zinta in a leading role.

Initially, this dialect was used to represent crooks and uncouth characters as, to quote film critic Shoma A. Chatterji, " Indian films have the unique quality of different characters speaking different varieties of Hindi according to their social status, their caste, communal identity, education, profession, financial status, etc.

In the film, the creature, called in Hindi as " Kala Bandar ( Black Monkey )" is used as an allegory to represent the evil that resides inside every man alongside God ( virtue ).

However, most Indian languages have specific words that mean music or in some way denote it, for example ' Sangeeth ' in Hindi and ' Sangeetham ' in Malayalam both mean music.

Other species of nutmeg include Papuan nutmeg M. argentea from New Guinea, and Bombay nutmeg M. malabarica from India, called jaiphal in Hindi ; both are used as adulterants of M. fragrans products.

* Hindi: Rājkumār ( र ा जक ु म ा र ), Kũwar ( क ुँ वर ), both from Sanskrit rāj ( royal ) + kumāra ( a boy )

Typically Chana in Hindi and Punjabi might refer to both varieties, as might chhole, but the former is more the green hard small variety while the latter is the large creamy softer one and also the more popular dish served around the region at home and at celebrations.

The shortest known legal wills are those of Bimla Rishi of Delhi, India (" all to son ") and Karl Tausch of Hesse, Germany, (" all to wife ") both containing only two words in the language they were written in ( Hindi and Czech respectively )

Similar programmes are being developed for both Hindi and Punjabi to serve in representing the large South Asian cultural community and its interests in the City of Surrey.

Backyard cricket, street cricket, beach cricket, gully cricket, corridor cricket, deef ( Hindi: गल ी, galli = " alley ") or garden cricket is an informal ad hoc variant of the game of cricket, played by people of both genders and all ages in gardens, back yards, on the street, in parks, carparks, beaches and any area not specifically intended for the purpose

* In India, both ' Standard ( Shudh ) Hindi ' and ' Standard ( Saaf ) Urdu ' are the " H " varieties ( written in Devanagari & Nastaliq respectively ), whereas ' Hindi-Urdu ' is the " L " variety used by the masses and written in both Devanagari and Nastaliq ( and called ' Hindi ' or ' Urdu ' respectively ) as well as in Roman ( electronic communication ).

The 2010 Indian Readership Survey findings shows that the largest read local language newspapers to be Dainik Jagran ( with 16. 0 million readers ) and Nai duniya ND Corp. Ltd ( with 15. 9 million readers ), both published in Hindi.

Critics opine that he completely failed to gauge the thoughts and feelings of the masses – his introduction of Hindi and the Madras Scheme of Elementary Education have both been extensively criticised while his pacifist stance during the Quit India Movement and his " C. R. Formula " angered the majority of his colleagues in the Indian National Congress.

The convention states all used contemporaneous stamps of British India, overprinted with the name of the state, in Latin letters or Hindi / Urdu letters or both, depending on state and period.

It was a hit among both Indians and NRIs, and became the first Hindi film blockbuster to feature NRIs as main characters.

The words yesterday and tomorrow both translate to the same word in Hindi: कल (" kal "), meaning " the day remote from today.

Dr Prayag Narayan Misra has presented more than 20 devotional poems — available online in both Hindi and English languages .< ref >

" Sati " appears in both Hindi and Sanskrit texts, where it is synonymous with " good wife "; the term " suttee " was commonly used by Anglo-Indian English writers.

The " Encyclopedia of Hindi Cinema " analyzed that " he defied the image of the conventional hero in both these films and created his own version of the revisionist hero.

Her first Bengali film Khela directed by Rituparno Ghosh also released the same year along with long delayed Hindi film Mehbooba, both films released on the same day.

The game is very popular in India and Nepal, where it is known both as " Flush " and " Teen Patti " ( literally translated from Hindi as " three cards "), played with some minor variations.

" Later that year, Yash Chopra cast her opposite Shahrukh Khan as the female lead in the love saga Veer-Zaara, the top-grossing Hindi film of that year in both India and abroad, with revenues of over Rs 900 million worldwide.

In 1779, the third Panchen Lama, a cosmopolitan priest fluent also in Hindi and Persian and well disposed to both Catholic missionaries in Tibet and British East India Company agents in India, was invited to Peking for the celebrations of the Emperor's 70th birthday.

Azmi has appeared in over 120 Hindi films in both mainstream and independent cinema, and since 1988 she has acted in several foreign projects.

In the context of the Indo-Aryan languages ( e. g. Sanskrit and Hindi ) and comparative Indo-European studies, breathy-voiced consonants are often called voiced aspirated, as in e. g. the Hindi and Sanskrit stops normally denoted bh, dh, ḍh, jh, and gh and the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European phoneme gʷh.

Ap () is the Vedic Sanskrit term for water, in Classical Sanskrit occurring only in the plural is not an element. v, ( sometimes re-analysed as a thematic singular, ), whence Hindi.

Its name derives from the Sanskrit word for " wheel " or " turning " ( चक ् र ं, pronounced in Hindi ; Pali: cakka चक ् क, Oriya: ଚକ ୍ ର, Malayalam: ചക ് ര ം, Thai: จ ั กระ, Telugu: చక ్ రo, Tamil: சக ் கரம ், Kannada: ಚಕ ್ ರ, Chinese: 輪 / 轮, pinyin: lún,, Wylie: khor lo ).

* A final consonant is marked with the diacritic, called the virāma in Sanskrit, halant in Hindi, and occasionally a " killer stroke " in English.

For example, while the vowel ū is written with the diacritic in क ू kū, it has its own letter ऊ in ऊक ūka and ( in Hindi but not Sanskrit ) कऊ kaū.

Hindi, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Nepali, Marathi and Sanskrit have the term ( Devanagari: म ा त ृ भ ू म ी), literally " Mother-Earth ".

Sanskrit text with Hindi tr.

Sanskrit text with Hindi tr.

Sanskrit text with Hindi tr.

Sanskrit text with Hindi tr.

The English word " mandarin " ( from Portuguese mandarim, from Malay menteri, from Hindi mantri, from Sanskrit mantrin, meaning " minister or counsellor "), originally meant an official of the Chinese empire.

Turmeric is commonly called ' Halodhi ' in Assamese, Pasupu in Telugu, Kaha ( කහ ) in Sinhala, Manjal ( மஞ ் சள ் ) in Tamil literally meaning yellow color, Arisina ( ಅರ ಿ ಸ ಿ ಣ ) in Kannada, Haridra ( हर ि द ् र ) in Sanskrit, Haldi ( حلدی ) in Urdu and Haldar or Haldi ( हल ् द ी) in Hindi, Haladi ( ହଳଦ ୀ) in Oriya, ' Halud ( হল ু দ )' in Bengali Besar ( ब ॆ स ा र ) in Nepalese.

The word " cheetah " is derived from the Sanskrit word, meaning " variegated ", via the Hindi ' च ी त ा' ( cītā ).

The combination of areca nut with betel leaf is called tamul ( ত া ম ূ ল / " ত া ম ো ল ") in Assamese, kavala in Kannada, tambulam in Sanskrit, bajjai in Tulu, and paan in Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, and Urdu.

With a few additional characters, added for this purpose, the Gujarati script is also often used to write Sanskrit and Hindi.

Nepali is commonly written in the Devanagari script, as are Hindi and Sanskrit.

* Van or Vana, meaning forest in Sanskrit, Hindi and many Indian languages, giving rise to terms like Vana Parva ( the Episode of Forest ) in the epic Ramayana

Sanskrit, Hindi and all other Indic languages have an entire set of dental stops which occur phonemically as voiced and voiceless, and with or without aspiration.