单词 | hindki |
释义 | Hindkin.adj. Now historical and rare. A. n. 1. A person of Indian descent living in Afghanistan or northern Pakistan; spec. a Hindu of the Khatri caste (cf. Khatri n.). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Afghanistan and Turkestan > [noun] Pathan1625 Hazara1801 Hindki1815 Tajik1815 Ghilzai1826 Zakka Khel1860 Pakhtun1880 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. xii. 309 It has been observed, that there is scarcely any part of Afghaunistaun in which the whole population is Afghaun, and that the mixture is composed of Taujiks in the West, and of Hindkees in the East. 1921 Young India 3 Nov. 356/1 The Hindkis i. e. Hindus of Afghanistan were subject to many indignities. 2004 Iranian Stud. 37 201 I have estimated that Hindkis comprised between 6% and 12% of the population in nineteenth-century Afghanistan. 2. The Hindko group of dialects or language varieties, as spoken by the Hindki peoples of Afghanistan; = Hindko n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Indic > north-western Hindki1815 Sindhi1838 Dogri1875 Hindko1883 Lahnda1903 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul Introd. 56 The inhabitants of Peshawer are of Indian origin, but speak Pushtoo as well as Hindkee. 1919 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India VIII. i. 333 The Lahndā of Dera Ghazi Khan goes by several names, such as Hindī, Hindkī, Jatkī, and Dērāwāl... I call it Hindkī in these pages. 1980 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 43 482 The slightly pejorative connotations of ‘Hindkī’ (at least to Pathans) are avoided in the modern self-definitions of Hindko-speakers by such coinages as ‘Hindkūn’, which suggests parity with ‘Pashtūn’. B. adj. Of or relating to the Hindki peoples or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Afghanistan and Turkestan > [adjective] Pathan1625 Afghan1742 Rohilla1768 Kurdish1806 Kurd1810 Hindki1815 Mohmand1815 Chorasmian1816 Hazara1826 Kaffir1834 Afghani1838 Zakka Khel1860 Pakhtun1867 Powindah1880 Thamudite1881 Sart1898 Thamudaean1909 Tajik1911 Thamudic1937 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Indic > northern Indian Hindki1815 Sindhi1836 Dogri1875 Maithili1881 Hindko1883 Malvi1927 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul iii. ii. 366 [Muckelwaud] is a Beloche or Hindkee name, little used. 1908 Imperial Gazetteer India (new ed.) XIX. 166 The Pathān tribes are mainly of Iranian origin, but many of their sections are affiliated clans of Hindkī or indigenous descent. 2008 S. Hanifi Connecting Hist. In Afghanistan (2011) 10 The already profitable position enjoyed by the Hindki merchants in Afghanistan was considerably advanced as a result of the first Anglo-Afghan war. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1815 |
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