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India

See also: india, INDIA, Indïa, Ìndia, Índia, and índia

Translingual

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India [1]
 
India [2]
 
India [3]

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English India.

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Noun

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India

  1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter I.
  2. (nautical) Signal flag for the letter I.
  3. (time zone) UTC+09:00


ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codes
code Alfa Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliett Kilo Lima Mike
November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu
zero one two three (tree) four (fower) five (fife) six seven eight nine (niner) hundred thousand decimal

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References

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  1. ^ DIN 5009:2022-06, Deutsches Institut für Normung, 2022 June, page Anhang B: Buchstabiertafel der ICAO („Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet“)

English

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A map of the Republic of India, with claims in light green.
 
Flag of India.
 
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Etymology

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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 (hindūš), 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”).

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Proper noun

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India (plural Indias)

  2. A country in South Asia. Official name: Republic of India. Capital: New Delhi.
    Synonyms: Hindiyyah, Hindustan, Bharat
  4. (chiefly historical, proscribed in modern use) A region of South Asia, traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent.
  5. (historical, often "British India") A territory of the British Empire, chiefly comprising the modern day countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Burma.
  6. A female given name

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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.

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Meronyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Translations

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Anagrams

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Albanian

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Proper noun

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India

  1. definite nominative singular of Indi

Asturian

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin India

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈindja/, [ˈĩn̪.d̪ja]
  • Rhymes: -indja
  • Hyphenation: In‧dia

Proper noun

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India f

  1. India (a country in South Asia)
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Basque

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /india/ [ĩn̪.d̪i.a]
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: In‧di‧a

Proper noun

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India inan

  1. India (a country in South Asia)

Declension

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Declension of India (inanimate, ending in -a)
indefinite
absolutive India
ergative Indiak
dative Indiari
genitive Indiaren
comitative Indiarekin
causative Indiarengatik
benefactive Indiarentzat
instrumental Indiaz
inessive Indian
locative Indiako
allative Indiara
terminative Indiaraino
directive Indiarantz
destinative Indiarako
ablative Indiatik
partitive Indiarik
prolative Indiatzat

Derived terms

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

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Etymology

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Latin India

Proper noun

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India

  1. India (a country in South Asia)

Central Nahuatl

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India

  1. India (a country in South Asia)

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Latin India.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɪn.diˌaː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: In‧di‧a

Proper noun

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India n

  1. India (a country in South Asia)
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Faroese

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Republic of India

Etymology

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From Latin India, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), from Ἰνδός (Indós, “Indus River”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hindūš) (Persian هند (hend)) from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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India n

  1. India (a country in South Asia)

Declension

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Singular
Indefinite
Nominative India
Accusative India
Dative India
Genitive India

Derived terms

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Derived terms

Fiji Hindi

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Etymology

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Hindi इंडिया (iṇḍiyā)

Proper noun

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India

  1. India (a country in South Asia)
    Synonyms: Bharat, Hindustan

Galician

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Etymology

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Latin India

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈindja/ [ˈin̪.d̪jɐ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -indja
  • Hyphenation: In‧dia

Proper noun

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India f

  1. India (a country in South Asia)
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Hungarian

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 India on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

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Latin India

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈindijɒ]
  • Hyphenation: In‧dia
  • Rhymes: -jɒ

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India

  1. India (a country in South Asia)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative India —
accusative Indiát —
dative Indiának —
instrumental Indiával —
causal-final Indiáért —
translative Indiává —
terminative Indiáig —
essive-formal Indiaként —
essive-modal — —
inessive Indiában —
superessive Indián —
adessive Indiánál —
illative Indiába —
sublative Indiára —
allative Indiához —
elative Indiából —
delative Indiáról —
ablative Indiától —
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		Indiáé —
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		Indiáéi —
Possessive forms of India
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Indiám —
2nd person sing. Indiád —
3rd person sing. Indiája —
1st person plural Indiánk —
2nd person plural Indiátok —
3rd person plural Indiájuk —

Derived terms

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch India, from Latin India, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós, “Indus river”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hindūš), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɪndia̯]
  • Hyphenation: In‧dia

Proper noun

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India

  1. India (a country in South Asia)

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Further reading

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Ingrian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian Индия (Indija).

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Noun

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India

  1. 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

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Declension of India (type 3/kana, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative India —
genitive Indian —
partitive Indiaa —
illative Indiaa —
inessive Indiaas —
elative Indiast —
allative Indialle —
adessive Indiaal —
ablative Indialt —
translative Indiaks —
essive Indianna, Indiaan —
exessive1) Indiant —
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Irish

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Etymology

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Latin India

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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An India f (genitive na hIndia, nominative plural na hIndiacha)

  1. India (a country in South Asia; official name: Poblacht na hIndia)

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Always preceded by the definite article.

Declension

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Declension of India (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative India Indiacha
vocative a India a Indiacha
genitive India Indiacha
dative India Indiacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an India na hIndiacha
genitive na hIndia na nIndiacha
dative leis an India
don India 		leis na hIndiacha

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of India
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
India nIndia hIndia not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin India.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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India f

  1. India (a country in South Asia)

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References

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  1. ^ India in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós, “the Indus river”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hindūš), from Proto-Iranian *hínduš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”), of uncertain origin.

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India f sg (genitive Indiae); first declension

  1. (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)
  2. (New Latin) India (a country in South Asia)

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First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative India
genitive Indiae
dative Indiae
accusative Indiam
ablative Indiā
vocative India

Descendants

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References

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  • 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

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Etymology

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Latin India

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India

  1. India (a country in South Asia)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Latin India

Proper noun

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India

  1. India (a country in South Asia)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Latin India

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India

  1. India (a country in South Asia)

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Old English

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Proper noun

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India m

  1. Alternative form of Indea

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Latin India.

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India f

  1. Obsolete spelling of Índia.

Romanian

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Latin India

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Proper noun

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India f

  1. India (a country in South Asia)

Slovak

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India f (genitive singular Indie, declension pattern of ulica)

  1. India (a country in South Asia)

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  • “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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin India, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), from Ἰνδός (Indós, “Indus River”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hindūš) (modern Persian هند (hend)) from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”).

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India f

  1. India (a country in South Asia)

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  • The definite article is optional when referring to India in Spanish (i.e. la India).

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Further reading

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Swahili

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English India.

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India

  1. India (a country in South Asia)
    Synonyms: Uhindi, Hindi

Welsh

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India f

  1. India (a country in South Asia)

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In older, more formal language, this country name is found preceded by the definite article yr.

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Yoruba

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Etymology

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From English India.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /í.ŋ́.dí.à/

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Íńdíà

  1. India (a country in South Asia)
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