20 Commonly Used Hindi Words You Didn’t Know Have Foreign Roots

With over 42 Crore speakers, Hindi is the most widely used language in India and we use a lot of Hindi words from dawn to dusk. But do you know that a lot of these words actually come from foreign languages and are not originally ‘Indian’? Strange, isn’t it?

These are called ‘loanwords’ and as the name suggests, they have been taken from different languages but have now become an integral part of our conversations. Here’s a list of 20 such words.

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Now go on, flaunt this knowledge among your friends! ?

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