Hindustan

See also: hindustan

English

Alternative forms

• Hindostan, Hindoostan, Indostan (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani ہِنْدُوسْتان (hindūstān) / हिंदुस्तान (hindustān), itself from Classical Persian هِنْدُوسْتَان (hindūstān, “Indian subcontinent”). By surface analysis, Hindu +‎ -stan.

Proper noun

Hindustan

1. (colloquial) India (Republic of India).

   Synonym: Bharat

2. (dated) The entire region of the Indian subcontinent.
   • [1889 January], Rudyard Kipling, “(please specify the page)”, in Under the Deodars (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 4), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: A[rthur] H[enry] Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC:

     “The Government of Her Majesty the Queen, Empress of India […] says the movement is ‘for the remission of tax, the advancement of Hindustan, and the strengthening of the British Government.’

   • 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC:

     He did not wish to steal anything. He only desired to know what to steal, and, incidentally, how to get away when he had stolen it. He thanked all the Gods of Hindustan, and Herbert Spencer, that there remained some valuables to steal.

   • 1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter 15, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu‎^[1]:

     There, floor piled upon floor above the chattering throngs, were these less gregarious units, each something of a mystery to his fellow-guests, each in his separate cell; and each as remote from real human companionship as if that cell were fashioned, not in the bricks of London, but in the rocks of Hindustan!

3. (obsolete) The northern (properly north central) region of India.

Related terms

• Hindustani
• Hindiyyah

Translations

northern region of India

• Arabic: هِنْدُسْتَان f (hindustān)
• Armenian: Հինդուստան (Hindustan)
• Assamese: হিন্দুস্তান (hindustan)
• Azerbaijani: Hindustan
• Belarusian: Індаста́н m (Indastán)
• Bengali: হিন্দুস্তান (bn) (hindustan)
• Bulgarian: Индоста́н m (Indostán)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印度斯坦 (zh) (Yìndùsītǎn), 痕都斯坦 (Héndūsītǎn) (historically)

• Czech: Hindustán m
• Dutch: Hindoestan (nl) n
• Finnish: Hindustan
• French: Hindustan (fr) m
• Georgian: ინდუსტანი (indusṭani)
• German: Hindustan n
• Greek: Ινδουστάν m (Indoustán)
• Gujarati: હિંદુસ્તાન (hindustān)
• Hindi: हिन्दुस्तान (hi) m (hindustān), हिंदुस्तान (hi) m (hindustān)
• Japanese: ヒンドスタン (Hindosutan), ヒンドゥスターン (Hindusutān)
• Kannada: ಹಿನ್ದುಸ್ಥನ (hindusthana)
• Kazakh: Үндстан (Ündstan)
• Korean: 힌두스탄 (Hinduseutan)
• Kyrgyz: Индустан (İndustan)
• Lak: Гьиндусттан (Hindust:an)
• Malayalam: ഹിന്ദുസ്ഥാൻ (hindusthāṉ)
• Manchu: ᡥᡝᠨᡩᡠ᠋ᠰᡨᠠᠨ (hendustan)
• Marathi: हिंदुस्थान (hindusthān)
• Odia: ହିନ୍ଦୁସ୍ତାନ (hindustāna)
• Pashto: هندوستان m (hendustān)
• Persian: هِنْدوسْتان (fa) (hendustân)
• Polish: Hindustan (pl) m
• Punjabi: ਹਿੰਦੁਸਤਾਨ (hindustān)
• Russian: Индоста́н (ru) m (Indostán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хи̏ндуста̄н m

  Roman: Hȉndustān (sh) m

• Spanish: Indostán m
• Swedish: Hindustan
• Tajik: Ҳиндустон (tg) (Hinduston)
• Tamil: ஹிந்துஸ்தான் (hintustāṉ)
• Telugu: హిందూస్తాన్ (hindūstān)
• Turkish: Hindustan
• Ukrainian: Індоста́н m (Indostán)
• Urdu: ہِنْدُوسْتان m (hindūstān)
• Uzbek: Hindiston (uz)

alternative name for India — see also India

• Arabic: هِنْدُسْتَان f (hindustān)
• Armenian: Հինդուստան (Hindustan)
• Assamese: হিন্দুস্তান (hindustan)
• Azerbaijani: Hindustan
• Belarusian: Індаста́н m (Indastán)
• Bengali: হিন্দুস্তান (bn) (hindustan)
• Bulgarian: Индоста́н m (Indostán)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印度斯坦 (zh) (Yìndùsītǎn)

• Dhivehi: ހިންދުސްތާނު (dv) (hin̊dustānu)
• Dutch: Hindoestan (nl) n
• Finnish: Hindustan
• French: Hindustan (fr) m
• Georgian: ინდოსტანი (indosṭani)
• German: Hindustan n
• Greek: Ινδουστάν m (Indoustán)
• Gujarati: હિંદુસ્તાન (hindustān)
• Hindi: हिन्दुस्तान (hi) m (hindustān), हिंदुस्तान (hi) m (hindustān)
• Japanese: ヒンドスタン (Hindosutan), ヒンドゥスターン (Hindusutān)
• Kannada: ಹಿನ್ದುಸ್ಥನ (hindusthana)
• Kashmiri: ہِندوستان (hindōstān)
• Kazakh: Үндстан (Ündstan)
• Korean: 힌두스탄 (Hinduseutan)
• Kyrgyz: Индустан (İndustan)
• Lak: Гьиндусттан (Hindust:an)
• Malayalam: ഹിന്ദുസ്ഥാൻ (hindusthāṉ)
• Marathi: हिंदुस्थान (hindusthān)
• Odia: ହିନ୍ଦୁସ୍ତାନ (hindustāna)
• Pashto: هندوستان m (hendustān)
• Persian: هِنْدوسْتان (fa) (hendustân)
• Polish: Hindustan (pl) m
• Punjabi: ਹਿੰਦੁਸਤਾਨ (hindustān)
• Russian: Индоста́н (ru) m (Indostán), Хиндуста́н m (Xindustán)
• Sindhi: هندستان (hindustānu)
• Spanish: Indostán m
• Swedish: Hindustan
• Tajik: Ҳиндустон (tg) (Hinduston)
• Tamil: ஹிந்துஸ்தான் (hintustāṉ)
• Telugu: హిందూస్తాన్ (hindūstān)
• Turkish: Hindustan
• Ukrainian: Індоста́н m (Indostán)
• Urdu: ہِنْدُوسْتان m (hindūstān)
• Uzbek: Hindiston (uz)
• Western Panjabi: ھندستان (pnb) (hndstān)

See also

• Bharat
• Hinduland

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian هندوستان (hendustân).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xinˈdus.tan/

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• Rhymes: -ustan
• Syllabification: Hin‧dus‧tan

Proper noun

Hindustan m inan

1. Hindustan, an alternative name for India (a country in Asia)

   Synonym: Indie

Declension

Declension of Hindustan

	singular
nominative	Hindustan
genitive	Hindustanu
dative	Hindustanowi
accusative	Hindustan
instrumental	Hindustanem
locative	Hindustanie
vocative	Hindustanie

Derived terms

adjective

• hindustański

 

Related terms

adjectives

• hinduistyczny
• hinduski
• indyjski

 

nouns

• hindi
• hinduista
• hinduistka
• hinduistyka
• hinduizm
• hindus
• Hindus
• Hinduska
• hinduska
• hindustani
• Indie

 

Further reading

• Hindustan in Polish dictionaries at PWN