India

See also india, and Índia

Translingual

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈindiˑɑ]

Symbol

India

1. The letter I in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

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English

A map of India

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

• enPR: ĭnʹdēə, IPA: /ˈɪndiə/, X-SAMPA: /"Indi@/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

India

1. The territory east of the river Indus and south of the Himalaya mountains (formerly also known as Hindustan)
2. Country in South Asia (Bharat). Official name: Republic of India.
3. Formerly applied to America, also plural Indies (obsolete)
4. The letter I in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Derived terms

• Indian
• Indiana

Translations

the country

• Afrikaans: Indië (af)
• Albanian: India (sq), Indi (sq)
• Amharic: ህንድ (am) (hənd)
• Arabic: الهند (ar) (al-hind) f
• Aragonese: India (an) f
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܗܢܕܘ

• Armenian: Հնդկաստան (hy) (Hndkastan)
• Assamese: ভাৰত (as) (bhārat)
• Asturian: India (ast) f
• Aymara: Indya
• Azeri: Hindistan (az)
• Bashkir: Һиндостан (Hindostan)
• Belarusian: Індыя (be) (Índyja) f
• Bengali: ভারত (bn) (bharôt)
• Bihari: भारत (bh)
• Bislama: India
• Breton: India (br)
• Bulgarian: Индия (bg) (Índija) f
• Burmese: အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံ (my) (indi.ya.nuingngam), အိန္ဒိယ (my) (indi.ya.)
• Catalan: Índia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 印度 (yun tho)

  Hakka: 印度 (Yinthu)

  Mandarin: 印度 (cmn) (Yìndù)

  Min nan: 印度 (nan) (Ìn-tō·)

• Czech: Indie (cs) f
• Danish: Indien (da)
• Dhivehi: އިންޑިއާ (dv) (Inḋi’ā), (Uthuru Kara)
• Dutch: India (nl)
• Dzongkha: རྒྱ་གར་ (dz)
• Esperanto: Barato (eo)
• Estonian: India (et)
• Faroese: India (fo) n
• Filipino: India
• Finnish: Intia (fi)
• French: Inde (fr) f

  Old French: Ynde f

• Galician: India (gl) f
• Georgian: ინდოეთი (ka) (indoet'i)
• German: Indien (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: Ἰνδία (India)

  Modern: Ινδία (el) (Indía) f

• Gujarati: ભારત (gu) (bhārat), ઈન્ડિયા (gu) (īnḍiyā), હિંદ (gu) (Hi.nd)
• Hebrew: הודו (he) / הֹדּוּ (he) (hódu) f
• Hindi: भारत (hi) (bhārat) m, इंडिया (hi) (inḍiyā) m, हिन्दुस्तान (hi) (hindustān) m, (formal) भारतवर्ष (hi) (bhāratvarṣ) m
• Hungarian: India (hu)
• Icelandic: Indland (is) n
• Indonesian: India (id)
• Interlingua: India (ia)
• Irish: An India (ga) f, Poblacht na hIndia (ga) f
• Italian: India (it) f
• Japanese: インド (ja) (Indo), (dated) 印度 (ja) (いんど, Indo)
• Kamba: India
• Kannada: ಭಾರತ (kn) (bhārat), (official) ಭಾರತ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ (kn) (bhārata gaṇarājya), ಹಿಂದೂಸ್ಥಾನ (kn) (hindustaan)
• Kazakh: Үндістан (kk) (Ündistan)
• Khmer: ឥណ្ឌា (km) (ʔəndie)
• Kikuyu: India
• Korean: 인도 (ko) (Indo) (印度 (ko))

• Kyrgyz: Индия (ky) (Indiya)
• Lao: ອິນເດຍ (lo) (indiya), ອິນເດັຽ (lo) (indiẏa)
• Latin: India (la) f
• Latvian: Indija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Indija (lt) f
• Luo: India
• Luxembourgish: Indien (lb)
• Macedonian: Индија (mk) (Índija) f
• Malay: India (ms)
• Malayalam: ഇന്ത്യ (ml) (intya)
• Maltese: l-Indja (mt)
• Marathi: भारत (mr) (bhārat)
• Meru: India
• Middle Persian: 𐭤𐭭𐭣 (Hind)
• Mongolian: Энэтхэг (mn) (Enetheg)
• Navajo: Tó Wónaanídę́ę́ʼ Bitsįʼ Yishtłizhii Bikéyah
• Neapolitan: Innia f
• Nepali: भारत (ne) (bhārat)
• Newari: भारत
• Norwegian: India (no)
• Novial: India
• Occitan: Índia (oc) f
• Old Persian: 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hidūš)
• Oriya: ଭାରତ (or) (bhārat)
• Pashto: هند (ps) (hend)
• Persian: هند (fa) (Hend), هندوستان (fa) (Hendustân)
• Polish: Indie (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: Índia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਭਾਰਤ (pa) (bhārat), ਹਿੰਦ (pa) (hi.nd), ਹਿੰਦੁਸਤਾਨ (pa) (hi.ndustān)
• Romanian: India (ro) f
• Russian: Индия (ru) (Índija) f
• Samogitian: Indėjė
• Sanskrit: भारत (sa) (bhārata) n, भारतवर्ष (sa) (bhāratavarṣa) n
• Scots: Indie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Индија (sh) f

  Roman: Indija (sh) f

• Sindhi: ڀارت (sd) (bharatu), هندستان (sd) (hindustānu), هند (sd) (hindu)
• Sinhalese: භාරත් (si) (bhārat), ඉන්දියාව (si) (indiyāva)
• Slovak: India (sk) f
• Slovene: Índija (sl) f
• Spanish: India (es) f
• Swahili: India (sw), Bara Hindi (sw), Uhindi (sw)
• Swedish: Indien (sv)
• Tajik: Ҳиндустон (tg) (Hinduston), Ҳинд (tg) (Hind)
• Tamil: இந்தியா (ta) (Intiyā)
• Tatar: Хиндостан (tt) (Hindostan)
• Telugu: ఇండియా (te) (indiyā), భారత దేశము (te) (bhārat deśamu)
• Thai: อินเดีย (th) (india), ประเทศอินเดีย (th) (pràtêt india), ภรตวรรษ (th)
• Tibetan: རྒྱ་གར (bo) (rgya gar)
• Turkish: Hindistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Hindistan (tk)

  Cyrillic: Хиндистан (tk)

• Ukrainian: Індія (uk) (Índija) f
• Urdu: بھارت (ur) (bhārat) m, انڈیا (ur) (inḍiyā) m, ہندوستان (ur) (hindustān) m
• Uzbek: Hindiston (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ấn Độ (vi) (印度 (vi))
• Welsh: India (cy)
• Western Panjabi: ھندستان (pnb)
• Yiddish: אינדיע (yi) (indie)
• Zazaki: Hindıstan

the letter "I"

• Estonian: Iida (et)

• Finnish: Iivari (fi)

Bharat — see Bharat

See also

• (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

• I and I
• NIAID

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Faroese

India

Etymology

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

• IPA: /ˈɪntia/, X-SAMPA: /"Intia/

Proper noun

India

1. India

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	India
Accusative	India
Dative	India
Genitive	India

Derived terms

• indi
• indari
• indverji
• indiskur

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Hungarian

Wikipedia ^hu

Proper noun

India

1. India

Related terms

• Indiai Köztársaság
• indiai

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɪnʲdʲiə/

Proper noun

An India f (genitive na hIndia)

1. India

Declension

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
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.

Usage notes

Always preceded by the definite article.

Synonyms

• Poblacht na hIndia

Derived terms

• Indiach

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

India f (plural Indie)

1. India
2. plural: the Indies

Derived terms

• indiano

Anagrams

• daini

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Proper noun

India (genitive Indiae); f, first declension

1. India

Inflection

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

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Norwegian

Proper noun

India

1. India

Related terms

• inder
• indisk

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Proper noun

India f

1. India