India

See also: india, Indïa, Ìndia, Índia, and índia

Translingual

Etymology

From English India

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈindi.ɑ]

Noun

India

1. Code word for the letter I in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet

Translations

the letter "I" in a national spelling alphabet

• Estonian: India (et)
• Finnish: Iivari (fi)

• Italian: Imola
• Russian: Ива́н (ru) m (Iván)

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English

A map of the Republic of India, with claims in light green.

Flag of India.

Etymology

From Old English India, Indea, from Latin India, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós, “Indus river”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”).

Compare Middle English Inde and Ynde from Old French Ynde (original form started to prevail in the 16th century), Persian هند‎ (hend, “India”), Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭnʹdēə, IPA^(key): /ˈɪndi.ə/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

India (plural Indias)

2. A country in South Asia. Official name: Republic of India.
3. (chiefly historical, proscribed in modern use) An area of land in Southern Asia, traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent.
4. (historical, often "British India") A territory of the British Empire, chiefly comprising the modern day countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Burma.
5. The letter I in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
6. A female given name

Usage notes

When discussing the pre-modern history of South Asia, naming the entire subcontinent India is common. For discussing the current states, which include the Republic of India, this can cause offense and confusion and is usually avoided with the terms Indian Subcontinent or South Asia.

At times when multiple countries existed in South Asia, these have sometimes been pluralised as Indias or Indies. The word Indies survives in some place names such as East Indies and West Indies but is otherwise obsolete.

Synonyms

• (Republic of India): Bharat, Hindustan
• (Landmass): Indian subcontinent, South Asia (usually including Indian Ocean nations), the subcontinent

Meronyms

• (the subcontinent): Pakistan, Bangladesh

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Farther India
• India matting
• India paper
• India proof

• india rubber
• Indian
• Indiana

Descendants

• → Hawaiian: ʻĪnia, ʻInia

Translations

the country

• Abkhaz: Индиа (India)
• Adyghe: Индие (Indie)
• Afrikaans: Indië (af)
• Albanian: India (sq) f, Indi f
• Amharic: ህንድ (hənd)
• Arabic: الْهِنْد‎ f (al-hind)
• Aragonese: India f
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܗܢܕܘ‎

• Armenian: Հնդկաստան (Hndkastan)

  Old Armenian: Հնդիկք (Hndikkʿ), Հնդկաստան (Hndkastan)

• Assamese: ভাৰত (bharot)
• Asturian: India (ast) f
• Aymara: Indya
• Azerbaijani: Hindistan (az)
• Bashkir: Һиндостан (Hindostan)
• Belarusian: І́ндыя f (Índyja)
• Bengali: ভারত (bn) (bharôt)
• Bihari: भारत (bhārat)
• Bislama: India
• Bodo (India): भारत (bharot)
• Brahui: Inđíá
• Breton: India
• Bulgarian: И́ндия (bg) f (Índija)
• Burmese: အိန္ဒိယ (indi.ya.)
• Buryat: Энэдхэг (Enedxeg)
• Catalan: Índia (ca) f
• Chechen: Инди (Indi)
• Cherokee: ᎢᏂᏗᎢᎠ (inidiia)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 印度 (yue) (jan³ dou⁶)

  Dungan: Йиндў (Yindw)

  Hakka: 印度 (Yin-thu)

  Mandarin: 印度 (zh) (Yìndù)

  Min Dong: 印度 (Éng-dô)

  Min Nan: 印度 (Ìn-tō͘)

  Wu: 印度 (in du)

• Coptic: ϩⲉⲛⲧⲟⲩ (hentou)
• Crimean Tatar: İndistan
• Czech: Indie (cs) f
• Danish: Indien (da) n
• Dhivehi: އިންޑިއާ‎ (in̊ḍiā), ހިންދުސްތާނު‎ (dv) (hin̊dustānu)
• Dinka: Indiɛn
• Dogri: भारत (bhārat)
• Dutch: India (nl) n
• Dzongkha: རྒྱ་གར་ (rgya gar)
• Egyptian: (hndwꜣy)
• Esperanto: Barato (eo), Hindio (dated), Hindujo (dated)
• Estonian: India (et)
• Faroese: India n
• Finnish: Intia (fi)
• French: Inde (fr) f

  Old French: Ynde f, Inde

• Galician: India (gl) f
• Georgian: ინდოეთი (ka) (indoeti)
• German: Indien (de) n
• Greek: Ινδία (el) f (Indía)

  Ancient: Ἰνδία (Indía)

• Gujarati: ભારત (gu) (bhārat), ઈન્ડિયા (īnḍiyā), હિંદ (hind)
• Hausa: Indiya
• Hawaiian: ʻĪnia
• Hebrew: הודו / הֹדּוּ‎ (he) f (hódu)
• Hindi: भारत (hi) m (bhārat), इंडिया (hi) m (iṇḍiyā), हिन्दुस्तान (hi) m (hindustān), हिंदुस्तान (hi) m (hindustān), (formal) भारतवर्ष (hi) m (bhāratvarṣ), (dated) हिंद (hi) m (hind), हिन्द (hi) m (hind)
• Hungarian: India (hu)
• Icelandic: Indland (is) n
• Indonesian: India (id)
• Ingush: Хӏиндиче (Hindiče)
• Interlingua: India
• Irish: An India f, Poblacht na hIndia f
• Italian: India (it) f
• Japanese: インド (ja) (Indo), (dated) 印度 (ja) (いんど, Indo), インディア (India)
• Kamba: India
• Kannada: ಭಾರತ (kn) (bhārata), (official) ಭಾರತ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ (bhārata gaṇarājya), ಹಿಂದೂಸ್ಥಾನ (hindūsthāna)
• Kashmiri: ہِندوستان‎ (hindōstān), بارَت‎ (bārat)
• Kashubian: Indie f
• Kazakh: Үндістан (Ündistan)
• Khmer: ឥណ្ឌា (km) (ʼəndiə), ឥណ្ឌៀ (km) (ʼəndiə)
• Kikuyu: India
• Konkani: भारत (bhārat)
• Korean: 인도(印度) (ko) (Indo), 인디아 (ko) (India) (alternative or North Korea)
• Kumyk: Гьиндистан (Hindistan)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Hindistan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Индия (ky) (İndiya)
• Lak: Гьиндусттан (Hindust:an)
• Lao: ອິນເດຍ (lo) (ʼin dīa), ອິນເດັຽ (ʼin dīa)
• Latin: India (la) f
• Latvian: Indija f
• Lithuanian: Indija (lt) f

• Luo: India
• Luxembourgish: Indien
• Lü: ᦊᦲᧃᧈᦎᦴᧈ (ẏiin¹ṫuu¹)
• Macedonian: Индија (mk) f (Indija)
• Maithili: भारत (bhārat)
• Malagasy: India
• Malay: India
• Malayalam: ഇന്ത്യ (ml) (intya), ഭാരതം (ml) (bhārataṃ)
• Maltese: l-Indja
• Manchu: ᠶᡝᠨ
  ᡩᡠ (yen du)
• Manipuri: ভারত (bharôt)
• Maori: Īnia
• Marathi: भारत (bhārat)
• Meru: India
• Middle Persian: hndwkʾn' (Hindūgān)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Энэтхэг (Enetkheg)

  Mongolian: ᠡᠨᠡᠳᠬᠡᠭ (enedkeg)

• Navajo: Tó Wónaanídę́ę́ʼ Bitsįʼ Yishtłizhii Bikéyah
• Neapolitan: Innia f
• Nepali: भारत (ne) (bhārat)
• Newar: भारत (bhārata)
• Norman: Înde f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: India (no)

• Occitan: Índia (oc) f
• Old English: Indea
• Old Persian: 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hidūš)
• Oriya: ଭାରତ (or) (bharôtô)
• Ossetian: Инди (Indi)
• Parthian: 𐭇𐭍𐭃𐭎𐭕𐭍‎ (hindestān)
• Pashto: هند‎ (ps) m (hend), انډيا‎ f (endyā), هندوستان‎ m (hendustãn)
• Persian: هند‎ (fa) (hend), هندوستان‎ (fa) (hendustân)
• Plautdietsch: Indien f
• Polish: Indie (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: Índia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਭਾਰਤ (bhārat), ਹਿੰਦ (hind), ਹਿੰਦੁਸਤਾਨ (hindustān)
• Rohingya: Indía
• Romani: Indiya, Pharatiya
• Romanian: India (ro) f
• Russian: И́ндия (ru) f (Índija)
• Rusyn: І́ндія f (Índija)
• Samogitian: Indėjė
• Sanskrit: भारत (sa) n (bhārata), भारतवर्ष (sa) n (bhāratavarṣa)
• Santali: ᱥᱤᱧᱚᱛ (siñôt)
• Scots: Indie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ѝндија f

  Roman: Ìndija (sh) f

• Sicilian: Innia f
• Silesian: Indyje f
• Sindhi: ڀارت‎ (bharatu), هندستان‎ (hindustānu), هند‎ (hindu)
• Sinhalese: භාරත් (bhārat), ඉන්දියාව (indiyāwa)
• Slovak: India (sk) f
• Slovene: Índija (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Indiska f

  Upper Sorbian: Indiska f

• Spanish: India (es) f
• Swahili: India (sw), Hindi (sw), Uhindi
• Swedish: Indien (sv) n
• Tagalog: Indiya
• Tajik: Ҳиндустон (tg) (Hinduston), Ҳинд (Hind)
• Tamil: இந்தியா (ta) (intiyā), பாரத் (pārat)
• Tatar: Хиндостан (Xindostan)
• Telugu: ఇండియా (te) (iṇḍiyā), భారత దేశము (te) (bhārata dēśamu), భారత (te) (bhārata)
• Thai: อินเดีย (th) (in-diia)
• Tibetan: རྒྱ་གར (rgya gar), ཧིན་དྷུ (hin dhu)
• Tigrinya: ህንዲ (həndi)
• Tongan: ʻInitia
• Turkish: Hindistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Hindistan

  Cyrillic: Хиндистан

• Ukrainian: І́ндія (uk) f (Índija)
• Urdu: بھارت‎ (ur) m (bhārat), انڈیا‎ m (inḍiyā), ہندوستان‎ m (hindustān), ہند‎ m (hind)
• Uyghur: ھىندىستان‎ (hindistan), ئەنەتكەك‎ (enetkek) (archaic)

  Cyrillic: Һиндстан (Hindstan)

• Uzbek: Hindiston (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ấn Độ (vi) (印度)
• Welsh: India (cy)
• Western Panjabi: ھندستان‎ (pnb), بھارت‎
• Yakut: Үүндүйэ (Üündüye)
• Yiddish: אינדיע‎ (indye)
• Yoruba: India
• Zazaki: Hindıstan (diq)
• Zhuang: Yindu

Bharat — see Bharat

See also

• Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
• (states of India) state of India; Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal ^{(Category: en:States of India)}
• Bharat
• Urdu

Anagrams

• I and I, NIAID, iniad

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Asturian

Etymology

Latin India

Proper noun

India f

1. India (country)

Related terms

• indiu

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Latin India

Proper noun

India

1. India (a country in Asia)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

India

1. India (a country in Asia)

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Dutch

Etymology

Latin India

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.diˌaː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: In‧di‧a

Proper noun

India n

1. India (country)

Related terms

• hindoe
• Indiaas
• Indiër / Indiase

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Faroese

Republic of India

Etymology

From Latin India, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), from Ἰνδός (Indós, “Indus River”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš) (Persian هند‎ (Hend)) from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntia/

Proper noun

India n

1. India

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	India
Accusative	India
Dative	India
Genitive	India

Derived terms

Derived terms

• indari
• indi

• indiskur
• indverji

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Fiji Hindi

Etymology

Hindi इंडिया (iṇḍiyā)

Proper noun

India

1. India

   Synonyms: Bharat, Hindustan

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Galician

Etymology

Latin India

Proper noun

India f

1. India

Related terms

• indio

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Hungarian

Etymology

Latin India

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈindijɒ]
• Hyphenation: In‧dia
• Rhymes: -jɒ

Proper noun

India

1. India (a country in South Asia; official name: Republic of India)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	India	—
accusative	Indiát	—
dative	Indiának	—
instrumental	Indiával	—
causal-final	Indiáért	—
translative	Indiává	—
terminative	Indiáig	—
essive-formal	Indiaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Indiában	—
superessive	Indián	—
adessive	Indiánál	—
illative	Indiába	—
sublative	Indiára	—
allative	Indiához	—
elative	Indiából	—
delative	Indiáról	—
ablative	Indiától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Indiáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Indiáéi	—

Possessive forms of India
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Indiám	—
2nd person sing.	Indiád	—
3rd person sing.	Indiája	—
1st person plural	Indiánk	—
2nd person plural	Indiátok	—
3rd person plural	Indiájuk	—

Derived terms

• indiai

See also

• Indiai Köztársaság

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch India, from Latin India, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós, “Indus river”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪndia̯]
• Hyphenation: In‧dia

Proper noun

India

1. India:
   2. A country in South Asia. Official name: Republic of India.
   3. (chiefly historical, proscribed in modern use) An area of land in Southern Asia, traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent.
   4. (historical, often "British India") A territory of the British Empire, chiefly comprising the modern day countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Burma.
   5. The letter I in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

See also

• (countries of Asia) negara-negara di Asia; Afganistan, Arab Saudi, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Filipina, India, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Israel, Jepang, Kamboja, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Korea Selatan, Korea Utara, Kuwait, Laos, Libanon, Maladewa, Malaysia, Mesir, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Rusia, Singapura, Siprus, Sri Lanka, Suriah, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor Leste, Tiongkok, Turki, Turkmenistan, Uni Emirat Arab, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yaman, Yordania

Further reading

• “India” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Irish

Etymology

Latin India

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnʲdʲiə/

Proper noun

An India f (genitive na hIndia, nominative plural na hIndiacha)

1. India

   Synonym: Poblacht na hIndia

Usage notes

Always preceded by the definite article.

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

Derived terms

• Fo-Ilchríoch na hIndia f (“the Indian subcontinent”)
• Indiach (“Indian”, adjective)
• Indiach m (“Indian”)
• Na hIndiacha (“the Indies”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
India	nIndia	hIndia	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “India” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Entries containing “India” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin India.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.dja/

Proper noun

India f (plural Indie)

1. India
2. (in the plural) the Indies

Derived terms

• indiano

Anagrams

• daini

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós, “the Indus river”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš), from Proto-Iranian *hínduš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”), of uncertain origin.

Proper noun

India f sg (genitive Indiae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) India (a region of South Asia)
2. (New Latin) India (the modern country in South Asia)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	India
Genitive	Indiae
Dative	Indiae
Accusative	Indiam
Ablative	Indiā
Vocative	India

Descendants

• Sicilian: Innia

References

• India in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• India in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Malagasy

Etymology

Latin India

Proper noun

India

1. India

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Latin India

Proper noun

India

1. India

Derived terms

• Indiahavet

Related terms

• inder
• indisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Latin India

Proper noun

India

1. India

Derived terms

• Indiahavet

Related terms

• indar
• indisk

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Portuguese

Etymology

Latin India

Proper noun

India f

1. Obsolete spelling of Índia

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Romanian

Etymology

Latin India

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

India f

1. India (country)

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈindi̯a]

Proper noun

India f (genitive Indie, declension pattern of ulica)

1. India (a country in Asia)

References

• India in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin India, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), from Ἰνδός (Indós, “Indus River”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš) (modern Persian هند‎ (Hend)) from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈindja/, [ˈĩn̪.d̪ja]

Proper noun

India f

1. India

Usage notes

The definite article is optional when referring to India in Spanish (i.e. la India).

Related terms

• indio

Further reading

• “India” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Swahili

Etymology

From English India.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Proper noun

India

1. India

   Synonyms: Uhindi, Hindi

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Welsh

Proper noun

yr India f

1. India (a country in Asia)

Derived terms

• cnau'r India (“nutmegs”)