World Hindi Day 2023: Known as World Hindi Day, this special day is celebrated on 10 January. It aims to promote the language throughout India and other parts of the world. While many people confuse it with Hindi Diwas celebrated on 14 September, they are different from each other. World Hindi Day or World Hindi Day commemorates the first time the language was spoken at the United Nations General Assembly.
BTW, did you know that some Hindi words are so overused and common that they have been added to the Oxford Dictionaries? Check out some of them here.
Jugaad
In 2017, the word was included in the Oxford Dictionary. The dictionary describes the term as “a flexible approach to problem-solving that uses limited resources in an innovative way”. Well, isn’t that our favorite word?
Dadagiri
This popularly used word was also added to the Oxford Dictionary in the same year. The Oxford dictionary translates the term as “the act of using strength and power to intimidate or injure the weaker”.
forest
One of the most commonly used words in Hindi and English is jungle, which was one of the first few words from India chosen by the Oxford Dictionaries. The word originated from Sanskrit and entered the English language through Hindi.
Spoon
Well, it’s everyone’s favorite, it’s a very regularly used Hindi word and is defined by the dictionary as “a person who tries very hard to please someone, especially someone important”. as described.
traffic jam
It was also added to the dictionary in 2017. The dictionary describes the term as “a protest in which people block a road or cause a traffic jam.”
Elder sister
Another word that we commonly use as Hindi speakers! Oxford put it as simply as – “elder female cousin”.
Achcha
Oxford added the word in 2017 to 90 other words selected from different languages in India. The dictionary describes the word as “used to show that the speaker agrees with something, accepts, understands, etc.”
time pass
To everyone who thought it was an actual English word, you are wrong! As of 2017 there was no such English word in the dictionary. The dictionary describes the term as “the act of spending time doing something, especially something that has no purpose or is not very useful”.
Few other words that the English dictionary picked are – Bas, Jhuggi, Funda, Nivas, Gully, Natak, Sevak, Sevika, Chup, Surya Namaskar, Desh, Diya, Bada Din among many others.
– with ANI inputs