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From Latin India from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (India) from Ἰνδός (Indos), “‘Indus River’”) from Old Persian hinduš (Persian هند (Hend)) from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu), “‘a river, stream’”).
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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 pl. Indies (obsolete)
- The letter I in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
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the country
- Afrikaans: Indië af(af)
- Albanian: India sq(sq), Indi sq(sq)
- Amharic: ህንድ (Hənd)
- Arabic: الهند ar(ar) (al-Hind)
- Aragonese: India
- Aramaic: ܗܢܕܘ
- Armenian: Հնդկաստան (Hndkastan)
- Assamese: ভাৰত
- Asturian: India
- Aymara: Indya
- Azeri: Hindistan az(az)
- Bashkir: Һиндостан
- Belarusian: Індыя be(be)
- Bengali: ভারত
- Bislama: India
- Bosnian: Indija bs(bs) f.
- Breton: India br(br)
- Bulgarian: Индия bg(bg) (Indiya)
- Catalan: Índia ca(ca) f.
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 印度 (Yun tho)
- Hakka: Yinthu
- Mandarin: 印度 (Yìndù)
- Min nan: 印度 (Ìntō͘)
- Croatian: Ìndija hr(hr) f.
- Czech: Indie cs(cs) f.
- Danish: Indien da(da)
- Dhivehi: އިންޑިއާ (Inḋi’ā), (Uthuru Kara)
- Dutch: India nl(nl)
- Esperanto: Barato eo(eo), Hindujo eo(eo), Hindio eo(eo), Bharato eo(eo), Hinda Unio eo(eo)
- Estonian: India et(et)
- Filipino: India
- Finnish: Intia fi(fi)
- French: Inde fr(fr) f.
- Galician: India
- Georgian: ინდოეთი ka(ka) (indoeti)
- German: Indien de(de) n.
- Greek:
- Ancient: Ἰνδία (India)
- Modern: Ινδία el(el) (Indía) f.
- Gujarati: ભારત (Bhārat), ઈન્ડિયા (Īn.diyā), હિંદ (Hi.nd)
- Hebrew: הודו he(he) (Hodu)
- Hindi: भारत (Bhārat), इंडिया (I.n.diyā), हिन्दुस्तान (Hindustān)
- Hungarian: India hu(hu)
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- Indonesian: India id(id)
- Interlingua: India
- Irish: India ga(ga)
- Italian: India it(it) f.
- Japanese: インド (印度, Indo)
- Kannada: ಭಾರತ (Bhārata)
- Korean: 인도 (印度, Indo)
- Latin: India la(la) f.
- Latvian: Indija lv(lv)
- Lithuanian: Indija lt(lt)
- Macedonian: Индија mk(mk) (Índija) f.
- Malay: India ms(ms)
- Maltese: l-Indja
- Marathi: भारत (Bhārat)
- Mongolian: Энэтхэг (Enetkheg)
- Norwegian: India no(no)
- Novial: India
- Persian: هند (Hend), هندوستان (Hendostan)
- Polish: Indie pl(pl)
- Portuguese: Índia pt(pt) f.
- Punjabi: ਭਾਰਤ (Bhārat), ਹਿੰਦ (Hi.nd), ਹਿੰਦੁਸਤਾਨ (Hi.ndustān)
- Romanian: India ro(ro) f.
- Russian: Индия ru(ru) (Índija) f.
- Samogitian: Indėjė
- Scots: Indie
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: Индија sr(sr) f.
- Roman: Indija f.
- Sindhi: ڀارت (Bharatu), هندستان (Hindustānu), هند (Hindu)
- Slovak: India sk(sk)
- Slovene: Indija sl(sl)
- Spanish: India es(es) f.
- Swedish: Indien sv(sv)
- Tamil: இந்தியா (Intiyā)
- Tatar: Hindostan
- Telugu: ఇండియా (Indiyā), భారత దేశము (Bhārata Dēšamu)
- Thai: อินเดีย (India)
- Turkish: Hindistan tr(tr)
- Ukrainian: Індія uk(uk) (Indija)
- Urdu: بھارت (Bhārat), انڈیا (I.n.diyā), ہندوستان (Hindustān)
- Vietnamese: Ấn Độ vi(vi)
- Welsh: India cy(cy)
- Yiddish: אינדיע yi(yi) (Indie)
- Zazaki: Hindıstan
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Wikipedia hu
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India
- India
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an India f.
- India
- plural: the Indies
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- Fourth declension
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Always preceded by the definite article.
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Wikipedia it
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India f. (plural Indie)
- India
- plural: the Indies
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India
- India
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