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Translingual
Etymology
Borrowed from English India .
Pronunciation
Noun
India
( international standards ) NATO , ICAO , ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter I .
( nautical ) Signal flag for the letter I .
( time zone ) UTC +09:00
Translations
the letter "I" in a national spelling alphabet
References
^ DIN 5009:2022-06 , Deutsches Institut für Normung, 2022 June, page Anhang B: Buchstabiertafel der ICAO („Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet“)
English
A map of the Republic of India, with claims in light green.
Flag of India.
Etymology
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium . Particularly: “What is the evidence for direct inheritance from Old English instead of two separate borrowings from Latin?”
Inherited from Old English India , Indea , from Latin India , from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία ( Indía ) , from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός ( Indós , “ Indus river ” ) , from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 ( hin dūš ) , from Sanskrit सिन्धु ( sindhu ) , ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš ( “ river ” ) .
Compare Middle English Inde and Ynde from Old French Ynde (original form started to prevail in the 16th century), Classical Persian هند ( hind , “ India ” ) , Sanskrit सिन्धु ( síndhu , “ a river, stream ” ) .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
India (plural Indias )
A country in South Asia . Official name: Republic of India . Capital: New Delhi .
Synonyms: Hindiyyah , Hindustan , Bharat
( chiefly historical , proscribed in modern use ) A region of South Asia , traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent .
( historical , often "British India") A territory of the British Empire, chiefly comprising the modern day countries of India, Pakistan , Bangladesh , Bhutan , Nepal and Burma .
A female given name
Usage notes
When discussing the pre-modern history of South Asia, naming the entire subcontinent India is common. For discussing the current states, which include the Republic of India, this can cause offense and confusion and is usually avoided with the terms Indian Subcontinent or South Asia (except in the specific context of discussing Indian reunification ).
At times when multiple countries existed in South Asia, these have sometimes been pluralised as Indias or Indies . The word Indies survives in some place names such as East Indies and West Indies but is otherwise obsolete.
Synonyms
Meronyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
the country
Abkhaz: Индиа ( Indja )
Adyghe: Индие ( Jindije )
Afrikaans: Indië (af)
Albanian: India (sq) f , Indi f
Amharic: ህንድ ( hənd )
Arabic: الْهِنْد (ar) f ( al-hind )
Egyptian Arabic: الهند
Aragonese: India f
Armenian: Հնդկաստան ( Hndkastan )
Old Armenian: Հնդիկք ( Hndikkʻ ) , Հնդկաստան ( Hndkastan )
Assamese: ভাৰত ( bharot )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܸܢܕܘܼ ( hindu )
Asturian: India (ast) f
Aymara: Indya
Azerbaijani: Hindistan (az)
Bashkir: Һиндостан ( Hindostan )
Belarusian: І́ндыя f ( Índyja )
Bengali: ভারত (bn) ( bharot )
Bihari: भारत ( bhārat )
Bislama: India
Bodo (India): भारत ( bharot )
Brahui: Inđíá
Breton: India
Bulgarian: И́ндия (bg) f ( Índija )
Burmese: အိန္ဒိယ ( indi.ya. )
Buryat: Энэдхэг ( Enedxeg )
Carpathian Rusyn: І́ндія f ( Índija )
Catalan: Índia (ca) f
Chechen: Инди ( İndi )
Cherokee: ᎢᏂᏗᎢᎠ ( inidiia )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 印度 (yue) ( jan3 dou6 )
Dungan: Йиндў ( Yindw )
Eastern Min: 印度 ( Éng-dô )
Hakka: 印度 ( Yin-thu )
Hokkien: 印度 ( Ìn-tō͘ )
Mandarin: 印度 (zh) ( Yìndù )
Wu: 印度 ( 1 in-du)
Coptic: ϩⲉⲛⲧⲟⲩ ( hentou ) , ⲑⲉⲛⲧⲓⲕⲏ ( thentikē )
Cornish: Eynda f
Crimean Tatar: İndistan
Czech: Indie (cs) f
Danish: Indien (da) n
Dhivehi: އިންޑިއާ ( in̊ḍiā ) , ހިންދުސްތާނު (dv) ( hin̊dustānu )
Dinka: Indiɛn
Dogri: भारत ( bhārat )
Dutch: India (nl) n
Dzongkha: རྒྱ་གར ( rgya gar )
Egyptian: (hndwꜣy )
Esperanto: Barato (eo) , Hindio ( dated ) , Hindujo ( dated )
Estonian: India (et)
Farefare: Indo
Faroese: India n
Finnish: Intia (fi)
French: Inde (fr) f
Old French: Ynde f , Inde
Galician: India (gl) f
Georgian: ინდოეთი (ka) ( indoeti )
German: Indien (de) n
Greek: Ινδία (el) f ( Indía )
Ancient: Ἰνδία ( Indía )
Gujarati: ભારત (gu) m ( bhārat ) , ઈન્ડિયા ( īnḍiyā ) , હિંદ ( hind )
Hausa: Indiya
Hawaiian: ʻĪnia
Hebrew: הודו / הֹדּוּ (he) f ( hódu )
Hindi: भारत (hi) m ( bhārat ) , इंडिया (hi) m ( iṇḍiyā ) , हिन्दुस्तान (hi) m ( hindustān ) , हिंदुस्तान (hi) m ( hindustān ) , ( formal ) भारतवर्ष (hi) m ( bhāratvarṣ ) , ( dated ) हिंद (hi) m ( hind ) , हिन्द (hi) m ( hind )
Hungarian: India (hu)
Icelandic: Indland (is) n
Indonesian: India (id)
Ingrian: India
Ingush: Хӏиндиче ( Hindiče )
Interlingua: India
Irish: An India f , Poblacht na hIndia f
Italian: India (it) f
Japanese: インド (ja) ( Indo ) , ( dated ) 印度 (ja) ( いんど, Indo ) , インディア ( India )
Kamba: India
Kannada: ಭಾರತ (kn) ( bhārata ) , ( official ) ಭಾರತ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ ( bhārata gaṇarājya ) , ಹಿಂದೂಸ್ಥಾನ ( hindūsthāna )
Kashmiri:
Devanagari: हिन्दोस्तान ( hindōstān ) , इंडिया ( iṃḍiyā )
Perso-Arabic: ہِندوستان m ( hindōstān ) , بھارَت m ( bhārat ) , اِنڈِیا m ( inḍiyā )
Kashubian: Indie f
Kazakh: Үндістан (kk) ( Ündıstan )
Khmer: ឥណ្ឌា (km) ( ʼəndiə ) , ឥណ្ឌៀ (km) ( ʼəndiə )
Kikuyu: India
Konkani: भारत ( bhārat )
Korean: 인도(印度) (ko) ( Indo ) , 인디아 (ko) ( India ) ( alternative or North Korea )
Kumyk: Гьиндистан ( Hindistan )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Hindistan (ku)
Kyrgyz: Индия (ky) ( İndiya ) , Үндүстан (ky) sg ( Ündüstan )
Lak: Гьиндусттан ( Hindust:an )
Lao: ອິນເດຍ (lo) ( ʼin dīa ) , ອິນເດັຽ ( ʼin dīa )
Latin: India (la) f
Latvian: Indija (lv) f
Lithuanian: Indija (lt) f
Lü: ᦊᦲᧃᧈᦎᦴᧈ ( ẏiin¹ṫuu¹ )
Luo: India
Luxembourgish: Indien
Macedonian: Индија (mk) f ( Indija )
Maithili: भारत ( bhārat )
Malagasy: India (mg)
Malay: India (ms)
Malayalam: ഇന്ത്യ (ml) ( intya ) , ഭാരതം (ml) ( bhārataṁ )
Maltese: l-Indja
Manchu: ᠶᡝᠨ ᡩᡠ ( yen du )
Manipuri: ভারত ( bharôt ) , ꯚꯥꯔꯠ ( bhaarat )
Maori: Īnia
Marathi: भारत ( bhārat )
Meru: India
Middle Persian: hndwkʾn' ( Hindūgān )
Mon: ဂလာ
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Энэтхэг ( Enetxeg )
Mongolian: ᠡᠨᠡᠳᠬᠡᠭ ( enedkeg )
Navajo: Tó Wónaanídę́ę́ʼ Bitsįʼ Yishtłizhii Bikéyah
Neapolitan: Innia f
Nepali: भारत (ne) ( bhārat )
Newar: भारत ( bhārata )
Norman: Înde f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: India (no)
Occitan: Índia (oc) f
Odia: ଭାରତ (or) ( bhārata )
Old English: Indea
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: Їндїꙗ f ( Indija )
Glagolitic: Ⰺⱀⰴⰺⱑ f ( Indiě )
Old Persian: 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 ( h-i-du-u-š /hidūš/ )
Ossetian: Инди ( Indi )
Parthian: 𐭇𐭍𐭃𐭎𐭕𐭍 ( ḥndstn /hindestān/ )
Pashto: هند (ps) m ( hend ) , انډيا f ( endyā ) , هندوستان m ( hendustān )
Persian: هِنْد (fa) ( hend ) , هِنْدوسْتان (fa) ( hendustân )
Plautdietsch: Indien f
Polish: Indie (pl) f pl
Portuguese: Índia (pt) f
Punjabi: ਭਾਰਤ ( bhārat ) , ਹਿੰਦ ( hind ) , ਹਿੰਦੁਸਤਾਨ ( hindustān )
Rarotongan: Īnītia
Rohingya: Indía
Romani: Indiya , Pharatiya
Romanian: India (ro) f
Russian: И́ндия (ru) f ( Índija )
Samogitian: Indėjė
Sanskrit: भारत (sa) n ( bhārata ) , भारतवर्ष (sa) n ( bhāratavarṣa )
Santali: ᱥᱤᱧᱚᱛ ( siñôt )
Scots: Indie
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Ѝндија f
Roman: Ìndija (sh) f
Sicilian: Ìnnia f
Silesian: Indyje f
Sindhi: ڀارت ( bharatu ) , هندستان ( hindustānu ) , هند ( hindu )
Sinhalese: භාරත් ( bhārat ) , ඉන්දියාව (si) ( indiyāwa )
Slovak: India (sk) f
Slovene: Índija (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Indiska f
Upper Sorbian: Indiska f
Spanish: India (es) f
Swahili: India (sw) , Hindi (sw) , Uhindi
Swedish: Indien (sv) n
Tagalog: Indiya
Tajik: Ҳиндустон (tg) ( Hinduston ) , Ҳинд ( Hind )
Tamil: இந்தியா (ta) ( intiyā ) , பாரதம் (ta) ( pāratam )
Tatar: Һиндстан ( Hindstan )
Telugu: ఇండియా (te) ( iṇḍiyā ) , భారత దేశము (te) ( bhārata dēśamu ) , భారత (te) ( bhārata )
Thai: อินเดีย (th) ( in-diia )
Tibetan: རྒྱ་གར ( rgya gar ) , ཧིན་དྷུ ( hin dhu )
Tigrinya: ህንዲ ( həndi )
Tongan: ʻInitia
Turkish: Hindistan (tr)
Turkmen: Hindistan
Cyrillic: Хиндистан
Ukrainian: І́ндія (uk) f ( Índija )
Urdu: ہِنْدُوسْتان m ( hindūstān ) , بھارَت (ur) m ( bhārat ) , اِنْڈِیا m ( inḍiyā ) , ہِنْد m ( hind )
Uyghur: ھىندىستان ( hindistan ) , ئەنەتكەك ( enetkek ) ( archaic )
Cyrillic: Һиндистан ( Hindistan )
Uzbek: Hindiston (uz)
Vietnamese: Ấn Độ (vi) (印度 )
Welsh: India (cy) f
Western Panjabi: ھندستان (pnb) ( hndstān ) , بھارت ( bhārt )
Yakut: Үүндүйэ ( Üündüye )
Yiddish: אינדיע ( indye )
Yoruba: Íńdíà
Zazaki: Hindıstan (diq)
Zhuang: Yindu
See also
Countries of the world
(countries of Asia ) country of Asia ; Afghanistan , Armenia , Azerbaijan , Bahrain , Bangladesh , Bhutan , Brunei , Cambodia , China , Cyprus , East Timor , Georgia , India , Indonesia , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Japan , Jordan , Kazakhstan , Kuwait , Kyrgyzstan , Laos , Lebanon , Malaysia , Maldives , Mongolia , Myanmar , Nepal , North Korea , Oman , Pakistan , Palestine , Philippines , Qatar , Russia , Saudi Arabia , Singapore , South Korea , Sri Lanka , Syria , Taiwan , Tajikistan , Thailand , Turkey , Turkmenistan , United Arab Emirates , Uzbekistan , Vietnam , Yemen
(states of India ) state of India ; Andhra Pradesh , Arunachal Pradesh , Assam , Bihar , Chhattisgarh , Goa , Gujarat , Haryana , Himachal Pradesh , Jharkhand , Karnataka , Kerala / Keralam , Madhya Pradesh , Maharashtra , Manipur , Meghalaya , Mizoram , Nagaland , Odisha , Punjab , Rajasthan , Sikkim , Tamil Nadu , Telangana , Tripura , Uttar Pradesh , Uttarakhand , West Bengal (Category: en:States of India )
Bharat
Anagrams
Albanian
Proper noun
India
definite nominative singular of Indi
Asturian
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin India
Pronunciation
Proper noun
India f
India (a country in South Asia )
Basque
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /india/
Rhymes: -ia
Hyphenation: In‧di‧a
Proper noun
India inan
India (a country in South Asia )
Declension
Declension of India (inanimate, ending in -a )
Derived terms
See also
(countries of Asia ) Asiako herrialdeak ; Afganistan , Arabiar Emirerri Batuak , Armenia , Azerbaidjan , Bangladesh , Bahrain , Bhutan , Birmania , Brunei , Ekialdeko Timor , Errusia , Filipinak , Georgia , Hego Korea , India , Indonesia , Ipar Korea , Iran , Irak , Israel , Japonia , Jordania , Kanbodia , Kazakhstan , Kirgizistan , Kuwait , Laos , Libano , Malaysia , Maldivas , Mongolia , Nepal , Oman , Pakistan , Palestina , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , Singapur , Siria , Sri Lanka , Tadjikistan , Taiwan , Thailandia , Turkia , Turkmenistan , Txina , Uzbekistan , Vietnam , Yemen , Zipre ,
Central Huasteca Nahuatl
Etymology
Latin India
Proper noun
India
India (a country in South Asia )
Central Nahuatl
Proper noun
India
India (a country in South Asia )
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin India .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈɪn.diˌaː/
Hyphenation: In‧di‧a
Proper noun
India n
India (a country in South Asia )
Faroese
Republic of India
Etymology
From Latin India , from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία ( Indía ) , from Ἰνδός ( Indós , “ Indus River ” ) , from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 ( hin dūš ) (Persian هند ( hend ) ) from Sanskrit सिन्धु ( síndhu , “ a river, stream ” ) .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
India n
India (a country in South Asia )
Declension
singular
indefinite
nominative
India
accusative
India
dative
India
genitive
India
Derived terms
Fiji Hindi
Etymology
Hindi इंडिया ( iṇḍiyā )
Proper noun
India
India (a country in South Asia )
Synonyms: Bharat , Hindustan
Galician
Etymology
Latin India
Pronunciation
Proper noun
India f
India (a country in South Asia )
Hungarian
India on Hungarian Wikipedia
Etymology
Latin India
Pronunciation
Proper noun
India
India (a country in South Asia )
Declension
Derived terms
See also
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch India , from Latin India , from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία ( Indía ) , from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός ( Indós , “ Indus river ” ) , from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 ( hin dūš ) , from Sanskrit सिन्धु ( sindhu ) , ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš ( “ river ” ) .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
India
India (a country in South Asia )
See also
(countries of Asia ) negara-negara di Asia ; Afganistan , Arab Saudi , Armenia , Azerbaijan , Bahrain , Bangladesh , Bhutan , Brunei , Filipina , Georgia , India , Indonesia , Irak , Iran , Israel , Jepang , Kamboja , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Korea Selatan , Korea Utara , Kuwait , Laos , Libanon , Maladewa , Malaysia , Mesir , Mongolia , Myanmar , Nepal , Oman , Pakistan , Palestina , Qatar , Rusia , Singapura , Siprus , Sri Lanka , Suriah , Taiwan , Tajikistan , Thailand , Timor Leste , Tiongkok , Turki , Turkmenistan , Uni Emirat Arab , Uzbekistan , Vietnam , Yaman , Yordania
Further reading
Ingrian
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Индия ( Indija ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
India
India (a country in Asia )
1936 , L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa) , Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 123 :Anglian päävladenjat ollaa India , Australia , Lounatafrikan sojuza , Kanada . England's main subjects are India , Australia , South African Union , Canada .
Declension
Irish
Etymology
Latin India
Pronunciation
Proper noun
An India f (genitive na hIndia , nominative plural na hIndiacha )
India (a country in South Asia ; official name: Poblacht na hIndia )
Usage notes
Always preceded by the definite article.
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
From Latin India .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
India f
India (a country in South Asia )
Derived terms
References
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία ( Indía ) , from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός ( Indós , “ the Indus river ” ) , from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 ( hin dūš ) , from Proto-Iranian *hínduš , from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš ( “ river ” ) , of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
India f sg (genitive Indiae ) ; first declension
( Late Latin ) ( chiefly historical , proscribed in modern use ) India (a region of South Asia , traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent )
( New Latin ) India (a country in South Asia )
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
Descendants
References
India in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ) A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press
India in Gaffiot, Félix (1934 ) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette.
Malagasy
Etymology
Latin India
Proper noun
India
India (a country in South Asia )
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Latin India
Proper noun
India
India (a country in South Asia )
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Latin India
Proper noun
India
India (a country in South Asia )
Derived terms
Old English
Proper noun
India m
Alternative form of Indea
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin India .
Proper noun
India f
Obsolete spelling of Índia .
Romanian
Etymology
Latin India
Pronunciation
Proper noun
India f
India (a country in South Asia )
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
India f (genitive singular Indie , declension pattern of ulica )
India (a country in South Asia )
References
“India ”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science ] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk , 2003–2024
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin India , from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία ( Indía ) , from Ἰνδός ( Indós , “ Indus River ” ) , from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 ( hin dūš ) (modern Persian هند ( hend ) ) from Sanskrit सिन्धु ( síndhu , “ a river, stream ” ) .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
India f
India (a country in South Asia )
Usage notes
The definite article is optional when referring to India in Spanish (i.e. la India).
Derived terms
Further reading
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from English India .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
India
India (a country in South Asia )
Synonyms: Uhindi , Hindi
Welsh
Pronunciation
Proper noun
India f
India (a country in South Asia )
Usage notes
In older, more formal language, this country name is found preceded by the definite article yr .
Coordinate terms
(countries of Asia ) gwledydd Asia ; Affganistan , Armenia , Aserbaijan , Bahrain , Bangladesh , Bhwtan , Brwnei , Cambodia , Casachstan , Catar , Coweit , Cirgistan , Cyprus , De Corea , Dwyrain Timor , yr Emiradau Arabaidd Unedig , Fietnam , Georgia , Iemen , India , Indonesia , Irac , Iran , Israel , Japan , Gogledd Corea , Gwlad Tai , Gwlad yr Iorddonen , Laos , Libanus , Maleisia , Maldives , Mongolia , Myanmar , Nepal , Oman , Pacistan , Palesteina , y Philipinau , Rwsia , Sawdi Arabia , Singapôr , Sri Lanca , Syria , Taiwan , Tajicistan , Tsieina , Twrci , Tyrcmenistan , Wsbecistan
Derived terms
Yoruba
Etymology
From English India .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /í.ŋ́.dí.à/
Proper noun
Íńdíà
India (a country in South Asia )