Sindhi

noun

Sind·​hi ˈsin-dē How to pronounce Sindhi (audio)
plural Sindhi or Sindhis
1
: a member of a mostly Muslim people of Sind
2
: the Indo-Aryan language of the Sindhi people

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Having come from a pre-partition Sindhi family in Karachi who had had to start over again [after the 1947 division of India and Pakistan], my grandmother had a refinement in her tastes. Cosmo Brockway, Architectural Digest, 12 Aug. 2024 The Sindhi are the dominant Indo-Aryan speaking ethnic group of the lower Indus watershed. Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2010 In recent years, the military’s intelligence agencies have forcibly disappeared regional Baloch, Pashtun, and Sindhi nationalists; human rights defenders; journalists; and professors. Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2020

Word History

Etymology

Hindi & Urdu sindhī, from Sindh Sind

First Known Use

1815, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of Sindhi was in 1815

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“Sindhi.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Sindhi. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.

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