A form of Hindi spoken around Delhi.
1We shall be in almost the same predicament with the Hindostani.
2And I could talk Hindostani some-withthe children.
3In Hindostani it is used (often with an Alif for an Ayn) as intoxication e.g.
4The next will be the small Devanagari, for the Hindostani Scriptures, and next the larger for the Sanskrit.
5Opening it, I find that the chief countries and cities of the world are indicated in written Hindostani characters.
6Satan covered the ground with a single skip; there was a word or two of Hindostani, then he disappeared.
7The languages are the Hindostani (Hindi), Maharastra, Ooriya, Telinga, Bhotan, Burman, Chinese, Cochin Chinese, Tongkinese, and Malay.
8I can't understand Hindostani.
9He saw through the press the Hindostani, Persian, Malay, Tamil, and other versions of the whole or portions of the Scriptures.
10The officer announces himself as having once been to Bombay, and proceeds to question me in a mixture of Persian and Hindostani.
11; Mahratta, second edition, to the end of Matthew; Hindostani (new version) to Mark v., and Matthew is begun in Goojarati.
Translations for Hindostani