India
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Translingual [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: [ˈindiˑɑ]
Symbol [edit]
India
- The letter I in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin India, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (India), from Ἰνδός (Indos, “Indus River”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hindūš) (Persian هند (Hend)) from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
India
- The territory east of the river Indus and south of the Himalaya mountains (formerly also known as Hindustan)
- Country in South Asia (Bharat). Official name: Republic of India.
- Formerly applied to America, also plural Indies (obsolete)
- The letter I in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
the country
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Bharat — see Bharat
See also [edit]
- (states of India) state of India; Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal (Category: en:States of India)
- Bharat
- Urdu
- Countries of the world
- Appendix:Place names in India
Anagrams [edit]
Faroese [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin India, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (India), from Ἰνδός (Indos, “Indus River”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hindūš) (Persian هند (Hend)) from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
India
Declension [edit]
| Singular | |
| Indefinite | |
| Nominative | India |
| Accusative | India |
| Dative | India |
| Genitive | India |
Derived terms [edit]
Hungarian [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
India
Related terms [edit]
Irish [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈɪnʲdʲiə/
Proper noun [edit]
An India f (genitive na hIndia)
Declension [edit]
Declension of India
Fourth declension
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation [edit]
| Irish mutation | |||
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| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| India | nIndia | hIndia | tIndia |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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Usage notes [edit]
Always preceded by the definite article.
Synonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Italian [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
India f (plural Indie)
Derived terms [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
Latin [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
India (genitive Indiae); f, first declension
Inflection [edit]
| nominative | India |
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| genitive | Indiae |
| dative | Indiae |
| accusative | Indiam |
| ablative | Indiā |
| vocative | India |
| locative | Indiae |
Norwegian [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
India
Related terms [edit]
Spanish [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
India f
Categories:
- Translingual symbols
- ICAO spelling alphabet
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Old Persian
- English terms derived from Sanskrit
- English proper nouns
- en:States of India
- en:Countries
- en:Exonyms
- en:India
- Faroese terms derived from Latin
- Faroese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Faroese terms derived from Old Persian
- Faroese terms derived from Sanskrit
- Faroese proper nouns
- Hungarian proper nouns
- hu:Countries
- hu:Exonyms
- Irish proper nouns
- ga:Countries of Asia
- ga:Exonyms
- ga:India
- Italian proper nouns
- it:Countries
- it:Exonyms
- Latin proper nouns
- la:Countries
- la:Exonyms
- Norwegian proper nouns
- no:Countries
- no:Exonyms
- Spanish proper nouns
- es:Countries
- es:Exonyms