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Deobandi

Deobandi adjective: belonging to a certain revivalist movement within Sunni Islam.

Adjective

Deobandi (comparative more Deobandi, superlative most Deobandi)

  1. Belonging to a certain revivalist movement within Sunni Islam.

Deobandi meaning in Urdu

Deobandi in Urdu

Deobandi
دیوبندی devbandī

Forms of Deobandi

comparativemore Deobandi
superlativemost Deobandi

Origin of Deobandi

From Hindustani دیوبندی / देवबन्दी (devbandī); which means "of Deoband, Deobandi," from Devband, Deoband, town in Uttar Pradesh, India, the location of the Islamic seminary in which the movement began.

Words formed from Deobandi

Questions about Deobandi

What does Deobandi mean?
Deobandi means belonging to a certain revivalist movement within Sunni Islam.
What is Deobandi in Urdu?
Deobandi in Urdu is دیوبندی (devbandī). See Deobandi meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is Deobandi?
Deobandi is an adjective.

Words near Deobandi in the dictionary

  1. Dené-Caucasian
  2. Dené-Daic
  3. Dené-Yeniseian
  4. deo
  5. Deo volente
  6. Deobandi
  7. Deobandism
  8. Deobandist
  9. Deobandists
  10. deobfuscate
  11. deobfuscated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Deobandi (page history and authors); دیوبندی (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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