Hindi is not an Arabic word. The Sindhu river in Persian echo is Hindu,by which it was known and pronounced by Iranians. The Greeks and Roman called it Indus from which India has derived its name. In the legendary cosmography of the Saints, it is called Bharatakhanda, part of Bharatvarsa to the south of Meru( golden mountain)paravat by another account it is Jambudvipa, one of the seven concentric islands comprising the earth. This name of Hindu is derived from Iranians who called the people living in Bharatvarsa as the Hindus. If we study geographical events, we find our religious books correct and our Civilisation the oldest. Hence we did not name our people ,as we were the first people on earth and had civilisation has spread from our Land.

..but u r proud to be hindu!!!!

what the meaning of a word in one language, may be different in other language!
for ur information, the name 'hind' has come from 'sind' river as arabis cud not spell 'sind', they spell 's' as sound of 'h' and thus it became hind! and who are staying on the bank of sind, they r called as 'sindu' or in their spelling 'hindu' and to identify the area , they called as 'hind-e-stan', later we change or in practice, it came as 'hindustan'!
they have never called it in religious term but we accepted it as we are slave prone mentality people and that's why invaders had reigned us for 1200 years and it is prevailing today also in name of italian congress!
anyway, there is no 'hindu' word in our sciptures or sacred books!'arya' word is there and what they were following was 'sanatan dharm' or 'eternal religion'! so, we can change it to 'aryaism'in english and in local 'aryavrat'!and instead of 'hindu', we r 'arya' !