𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐎹
Old Persian
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Etymology
[edit]Masculine gender adjective formed from 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (h-i-du-u-š /Hiⁿduš/, “India”) + -𐎹 (-y /-yaʰ/, adjectival suffix), used as a noun.
Noun
[edit]𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐎹 (Hiⁿduya)
Related terms
[edit]- 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (h-i-du-u-š) (Hiⁿduš)
Descendants
[edit]- Middle Persian: hndwk' (hndwk' /hindūg/), 𐫍𐫏𐫗𐫅𐫇𐫐 (hyndwk /hindūg/), 𐫍𐫏𐫗𐫅𐫇𐫃 (hyndwg /hindūg/)
- Classical Persian: هِنْدُو (hindū, “Hindu, Indian”)
- → Assamese: হিন্দু (hindu)
- → Bengali: হিন্দু (hindu), ইন্দু (indu) — Vanga
- → Catalan: hindú
- → Danish: hindu
- → Dutch: hindoe
- → English: Hindu, Hindoo (dated)
- → Estonian: hindu
- → French: hindou
- → German: Hindu
- → Hindustani:
- → Hungarian: hindu
- → Italian: indù
- → Marathi: हिंदू (hindū), हिन्दू (hindū)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: hindu
- → Old Gujarati: हिंदू (hiṃdū)
- Gujarati: હિંદુ (hindu)
- → Odia: ହିନ୍ଦୁ (hindu)
- → Punjabi:
- → Polish: hindus
- → Portuguese: hindu
- → Spanish: hindú
- → Swedish: hindu
- → Tocharian B: yentuke
- Chinese: 印特伽 (Yìntèjiā)
- Classical Persian: هِنْدُو (hindū, “Hindu, Indian”)
- → Akkadian:
- → Elamite:
References
[edit]- ^ Text: A.2P, Part No. 130, Old Persian Corpus, TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien
- ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “Hindūg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 43
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tavernier, Jan (2007), Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN
- ^ Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume IV: The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millennium B.C. Ira Spar, Michael Jursa Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1 août 2014 [1]