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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread hinglish #167516 04/13/2007 2:47 PM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4 india aitrivra stranger aitrivra stranger Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4 india many hindi words have been adopted by the english language from time to time - chotta hazari, bada khana, bandobast and so on. i am particularly interested in such army - police services related words which may not be in use now but were acceptable say a generation before. could anyone list a few? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: hinglish aitrivra #167517 04/13/2007 3:12 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass is doolally tap Hindi, or something else? -joe (doolally) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: hinglish tsuwm #167523 04/13/2007 7:29 PM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4 india aitrivra stranger aitrivra stranger Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4 india thanks - didnt come across that before - it is, when doolali is read as deolali. that leads me to jungle which is common to both languages. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: hinglish aitrivra #167528 04/13/2007 8:04 PM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Hi aitrivra I'm not familiar with any of your examples. Please translate for those of me who missed them. thanks Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: hinglish Zed #167529 04/13/2007 8:06 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Like Zed, I'm not familiar with any of those expressions, Aitrivra. And jungle as a verb, is that hinglish, too? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: hinglish AnnaStrophic #167530 04/13/2007 8:09 PM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada jungle as a verb??? Is that the opposite of garden as a verb? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: hinglish Zed #167532 04/13/2007 8:28 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Yikes! I totally misread aitrivra's second post.... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: hinglish AnnaStrophic #167536 04/13/2007 10:35 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 I'm with the others here. What dialect of English has taken your examples? I thought khaki but AHD says it's through Urdu from Persian. Juggernaut is from the Hindi jagganath. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: hinglish Faldage #167547 04/14/2007 8:24 PM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4 india aitrivra stranger aitrivra stranger Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4 india sorry - i should have clarified that many hindi words originate from urdu and hence have arabic or persian roots - another set originates from sanskrit. many of the english words derived from hindi / urdu etc. have been imported during the Raj and some have gone out of common use. Indian (English)language Press, the Indian Army, and the Anglo-Indian community do continue to use several such words khaki / khakhi though its origin arabic is a hindi / english word as well. Thanks for putting me on that one. jungle (n) [Origin: 1770–80; < Hindi jaṅgal < Pali, Prakrit jaṅgala rough, waterless place] (source: dictionary.com)too is a colonial import, and meaning remains same in both hindi and english though the origin appears contradictory. Bada khana was the army description of the regimental dinner ( tr. big dinner)under the British rule. It remains an accepted phrase in the indian press - ‘Crime Branch Mumbai is Having Finals of Sports followed by a Cultural program and Bada Khana at Police Gymkhana, Marine lines, Mumbai today i.e. on 12-04-2006. Commissioner of police shall preside over the function.’ (that brings up Gymkhana as another hinglish word) Chota hazari is a breakfast as in http://www.trigger.net/~auballan/HeadmastersDiary.htm 1905, 10th August The night preparation has been slightly lengthened and the master-on-duty now supervises all the meals except chota-hazari, being responsible for order, marching in and out etc. bandobast: Bun´do`bust n. 1. System; discipline. He has more bundobust than most men. - Kipling. taken from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bandobast Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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