Ganges
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek Γάγγης (Gángēs), from Sanskrit गङ्गा (gáṅgā, literally “swift-goer”), from the verbal root गम् (gam, “to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to come”) (whence Latin veniō, Ancient Greek βαίνω (baínō), and English come). Doublet of Ganga.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡændʒiːz/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡænd͡ʒiz/
Audio (US): (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Ganges
- A river in India and Bangladesh, sacred within Hinduism
- 1625, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes[1], volume III, London, →OCLC, page 340:
- ...the Yellow Riuer... is the other famous Riuer of that Kingdome, in greatneſſe and note, which ariſesth without the Kingdome to the Weſt, out of the Hill Cunlun, conjectured to bee the ſame whence Ganges ariſeth, or one neere to it.
- 1968, Norman Mailer, “Nixon in Miami”, in Harper's, §6:
- ...their master... was no ad for anybody but the most arcane Black Power, he was an old prince of a witch doctor—insult him at your peril—but the other ten musicians with their trumpets and snares and assorted brass would prove no pull for Nixon on TV with any Black votes watching, for they were old and meek, naught but elderly Black Southern musicians, a veritable Ganges of Uncle Toms. They had disappeared with Tom Swift and Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Synonyms
[edit]- Ganga (in Indian English)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the river
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Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ganges m inan (related adjective ganžský or gangský)
- Alternative form of Ganga: Ganges (a major river in India and Bangladesh)
Declension
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]der Ganges m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Ganges)
- Ganges (a river in India and Bangladesh)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Ganges
Polish
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Ganga_at_Kaudiayala.jpg/220px-Ganga_at_Kaudiayala.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin Ganges.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ganges m inan
- Ganges (a river in Bangladesh and India)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Ganges
Further reading
[edit]- Ganges in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: Gan‧ges
Proper noun
[edit]Ganges m
- Ganges (a river in India and Bangladesh)
Related terms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ganges m
- Ganges (the sacred river)
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷem-
- English terms derived from Sanskrit
- English terms derived from the Sanskrit root गम्
- English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Rivers in India
- en:Rivers in Bangladesh
- en:Places in India
- en:Places in Bangladesh
- English terms with quotations
- English exonyms
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech proper nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech inanimate nouns
- cs:Rivers in India
- cs:Rivers in Bangladesh
- cs:Places in India
- cs:Places in Bangladesh
- Czech uncountable nouns
- Czech masculine inanimate nouns
- Czech velar-stem masculine inanimate nouns
- Czech nouns with regular foreign declension
- German 2-syllable words
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- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German masculine nouns
- de:Rivers in India
- de:Rivers in Bangladesh
- de:Places in India
- de:Places in Bangladesh
- German non-lemma forms
- German noun forms
- German exonyms
- Polish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Polish terms derived from Sanskrit
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- Polish learned borrowings from Latin
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- Rhymes:Polish/aŋɡɛs
- Rhymes:Polish/aŋɡɛs/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
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- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Rivers in Bangladesh
- pl:Rivers in India
- pl:Places in Bangladesh
- pl:Places in India
- Polish singularia tantum
- Polish exonyms
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
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- pt:Rivers in India
- pt:Rivers in Bangladesh
- pt:Places in India
- pt:Places in Bangladesh
- Spanish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/anxes
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- Spanish lemmas
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- es:Rivers in Bangladesh
- es:Rivers in India