Noun: Hindu
| Singular | Hindu |
| Plural | Hindus |
Sample Sentences
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Hindu American organizations, including the Hindu American Foundation and the Coalition of Hindus in North America, advocated for the law. [2025 October 7, Deepa Bharath, “California makes Diwali an official statewide holiday”, in KCRA:]
Nouns inflected like Hindu
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Derived from Classical Persian هِنْدُو (hindū, “Indian, Hindu”), from Middle Persian hndwk' (Hindūg, “Indian”), from hnd (Hind, “India”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢 (hiⁿdu-, “India”), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “river, stream; Indus”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *síndʰuṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”).
Verbs referencing "Hindu"
Polish Nouns
hindus.