ख़ानदानी
Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian خاندانى (xândâni), from خاندان (xândân).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰɑːn.d̪ɑː.niː/, /xɑːn.d̪ɑː.niː/
Adjective
ख़ानदानी • (xāndānī)
- ancestral, hereditary
- यह हमारा ख़ानदानी मकान दो सदियों से रहा है।
- yah hamārā xāndānī makān do sadiyõ se rahā hai.
- This has been our ancestral home for two centuries.
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- of good lineage; of good stock
Related terms
- ख़ानदान (xāndān, “family; lineage”)
References
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “ख़ानदानी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 234
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