Hindu
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈhɪndu/
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hindú
- As a practicing Hindu, she observes many religious rituals throughout the year.
But we have Jews and Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs.
- But we have Jews and Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs.
- I know that some are Hindu and some are Jane.
- OK, you go to heaven and these Hindus go to hell.
- All those Hindus out there very upset with you, right.
- I think that, you know, quite a few Buddhists and Hindus would probably disagree.
- And I was looking at the values that Hindus celebrate and the goals of life.
- I don't care about the Muslims doing this and the Hindus doing that and the Chinese doing that.
- I've spoken to Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists.
- OK, so so you were raised Hindu, though.
- The Hindus refer to them as the Devas and the Ashuras.
- You know every tradition as you know, whether it's Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, what else?
- There's there's Hindus and Buddhists there and that's part of what the the conflict is about.
- You know, they all agree on what right and wrong is, you know, and that's, that's very much the same the case with like the Sikhs, Hindus, Black Caribbeans, black Africans.
- OK, you got Hindus attacking Muslims if they have a cow in their truck wiping them out.
- I think there's an advantage sometimes if you have deep faith, whether you're, you know, Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, you know, whatever.
Examples
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I was first introduced to God as a Hindu.
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Hawaii is sending a Buddhist to the Senate and a Hindu to the House of Representatives.
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I know like a Hindu guy who is very much on my wave of politics.
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White or black, if one wants to be a Hindu, one becomes a Hindu.
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If a person says he is a Hindu, why would one hesitate to accept that?
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Yeah, my father was a Hindu, my mother's a Baptist, so, yeah...
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If Gabbard wins, she will be the first Hindu in the United States Congress.
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Vivekananda was the first Hindu teacher to come to the West and teach Hinduism.
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In this spirit, the four past presidents have been Muslim, South Indian Hindu, Sikh, and North Indian Hindu.
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But relations among persons who belong to the categories "Hindu" and "Muslim" take a wide range of forms, from avoidance to cohabitation.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
An old word for a person from India or someone who follows the Hindu religion
Compounds
- Indian
A calendar using the moon and the sun to set Hindu religious dates, adding an extra month sometimes
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hindu comes from the old local name for the Indus River, Sindhu, which meant 'river'. Persian speakers turned the 's' into an 'h' and used Hindu for the people beyond the Indus, so today a Hindu is someone who follows the religion called Hinduism.