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Category: All Anywhere for any reason Arts Business Clothing Colloquial usage Common use for anything of outstanding quality Concept Concept describing a person Exclamation Food Footwear General Honorific Interjection Mindset Personality Slang Arts Ceremony Clothing Concept Dance Festival Food Food, concept Furniture General General slang Geography Kitchen tool Literature Music Music, street lingo, luggage Religion Ritual Slang Sport
Origin: All Arabic Assamese Assamese/Bangla Bambaiya Hindi Bengali Bengali, Hindi Bengali, Marathi Bihari Hindi Chinese Chowpatty/Mumbai Hindi Daccani English English +Kannada French Goan Gujarati Gujarati and Hindi Hindi Hindi (Bihari) Hindi / Marathi Hindi Marathi Hindi Mumbaiyya Hindi and english Hindi slang Hindi tapori Hindi, Marathi Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi Hindi, Punjabi Hindi, Urdu Hindi/Bihari Hindi/Marathi Hindi/guajrati/marathi Hindustani or हिंदुस्तानी Hinglish Indian English Kannada Konkani Kutchi Latin Malayalam Marathi Marathi - Vidarbha Marathi and Arabic Marathi, Hindi Marathi/ hindi Meitei Mumbai/maharashtra slang Nagpuri slang Odia Odiya Old English Parsi Persian Portuguese Punjabi Punjabi (via Hinglish) Sanskrit Several Indian languages Sindhi Street slang Tamil Tamil/malayalam Telugu Tibetan Urdu bengali मराठी हिन्दी n several Indian regional languages