India

See also: india and Índia

Translingual

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈindiˑɑ]

Symbol

India

1. The letter I in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

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English

A map of the Republic of India

Wikipedia

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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

• enPR: ĭnʹdēə, IPA^(key): /ˈɪndiə/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

India

1. The territory east of the Wagah border and south of the Himalaya mountains (formerly also known as Hindustani Empire)
2. Country in Southern 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
• India matting
• India paper
• India proof
• india rubber

Translations

the country

• Abkhaz: Индиа (Indiā)
• Afrikaans: Indië
• Albanian: India f, Indi f
• Amharic: ህንድ (hənəd)
• Arabic: الهند f (al-hind)
• Aragonese: India f
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܗܢܕܘ

• Armenian: Հնդկաստան (Hndkastan)
• Assamese: ভাৰত (bhārat)
• Asturian: India (ast) f
• Aymara: Indya
• Azeri: Hindistan (az)
• Bashkir: Һиндостан (Hindostan)
• Belarusian: І́ндыя f (Índyja)
• Bengali: ভারত (bharôt)
• Bihari: भारत (bhārat)
• Bislama: India
• Brahui: Inđíá
• Breton: India
• Bulgarian: И́ндия (bg) f (Índija)
• Burmese: အိန္ဒိယနိုင်ငံ (indi.ya.nuingngam), အိန္ဒိယ (indi.ya.)
• Catalan: Índia (ca) f
• Chechen: Инди (Indi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 印度 (jan3 dou6)

  Hakka: 印度 (Yin-thu)

  Mandarin: 印度 (zh) (Yìndù)

  Min Nan: 印度 (Ìn-tō·)

  Wu: 印度 (in du)

• Crimean Tatar: İndistan
• Czech: Indie (cs) f
• Danish: Indien (da)
• Dhivehi: އިންޑިއާ (inḍiā), ހިންދުސްތާނު (hindustānu)
• Dutch: India (nl)
• Dzongkha: རྒྱ་གར་ (rgya gar)
• Esperanto: Barato
• Estonian: India (et)
• Faroese: India n
• Finnish: Intia (fi)
• French: Inde (fr) f

  Old French: Ynde f, Inde

• Galician: India (gl) f
• Georgian: ინდოეთი (indoet’i)
• German: Indien (de) n
• Greek: Ινδία (el) f (Indía)

  Ancient: Ἰνδία (Indía)

• Gujarati: ભારત (gu) (bhārat), ઈન્ડિયા (īnḍiyā), હિંદ (Hi.nd)
• Hawaiian: ʻĪnia
• Hebrew: הודו (he), הֹדּוּ (he) f (hódu)
• Hindi: भारत (hi) m (bhārat), इंडिया m (inḍiyā), हिन्दुस्तान m (hindustān), (formal) भारतवर्ष m (bhāratvarṣ)
• Hungarian: India (hu)
• Icelandic: Indland (is) n
• Indonesian: India
• 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)
• Jèrriais: Înde f
• Kamba: India
• Kannada: ಭಾರತ (kn) (bhārata), (official) ಭಾರತ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ (bhārata gaṇarājya), ಹಿಂದೂಸ್ಥಾನ (hiṃdūsthāna)
• Kazakh: Үндістан (Ündistan)
• Khmer: ឥណ្ឌា (km) (əndie)
• Kikuyu: India
• Korean: 인도 (ko) (indo) (印度 (ko))

• Kyrgyz: Индия (İndiya)
• Lao: ອິນເດຍ (lo) ('in dīa), ອິນເດັຽ ('in dīa), ປະເທດອິນເດຍ (pa thēt 'in dīa), ພະຣະຕະວັດ (pha ra ta wat)
• Latin: India (la) f
• Latvian: Indija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Indija (lt) f
• Luo: India
• Luxembourgish: Indien
• Macedonian: И́ндија (mk) f (Índija)
• Malagasy: India (mg)
• Malay: India
• Malayalam: ഇന്ത്യ (ml) (intya), ഭാരതം (ml) (bhārataṃ)
• Maltese: l-Indja
• Marathi: भारत (bhārat)
• Meru: India
• Middle Persian: 𐭤𐭭𐭣 (Hind)
• Mongolian: Энэтхэг (Enetheg)
• Navajo: Tó Wónaanídę́ę́ʼ Bitsįʼ Yishtłizhii Bikéyah
• Neapolitan: Innia f
• Nepali: भारत (ne) (bhārat)
• Newari: भारत (bhārat)
• Norwegian: India (no)
• Novial: India
• Occitan: Índia (oc) f
• Old Persian: 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hidūš)
• Oriya: ଭାରତ (or) (bhārat)
• Ossetian: Инди (Indi)
• Parthian: 𐭇𐭍𐭃𐭎𐭕𐭍 (Hindestān)
• Pashto: هند (ps) (hend)
• Persian: هند (fa) (hend), هندوستان (fa) (hendustân)
• Polish: Indie (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: Índia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਭਾਰਤ (bhārat), ਹਿੰਦ (hi.nd), ਹਿੰਦੁਸਤਾਨ (hi.ndustān)
• Romanian: India f
• Russian: И́ндия (ru) f (Índija)
• Samogitian: Indėjė
• Sanskrit: भारत n (bhārata), भारतवर्ष n (bhāratavarṣa)
• Scots: Indie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Индија f

  Roman: Indija (sh) f

• Sindhi: ڀارت (bharatu), هندستان (hindustānu), هند (hindu)
• Sinhalese: භාරත් (bhārat), ඉන්දියාව (indiyāva)
• Slovak: India f
• Slovene: Índija f
• Spanish: India (es) f
• Swahili: India (sw), Bara Hindi, Uhindi
• Swedish: Indien (sv)
• Tagalog: India
• Tajik: Ҳиндустон (tg) (Hinduston), Ҳинд (Hind)
• Tamil: இந்தியா (ta) (intiyā), பாரத் (pārat)
• Tatar: Хиндостан (Xindostan)
• Telugu: ఇండియా (te) (iṃḍiyā), భారత దేశము (te) (bhārata dēśamu), భారత (te) (bhārata)
• Thai: อินเดีย (th) (india), ประเทศอินเดีย (th) (pràtêt india), ภรตวรรษ (párót wát)
• Tibetan: རྒྱ་གར (rgya gar)
• 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)
• Uyghur: ھىندىستان (hindistan)
• Uzbek: Hindiston (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ấn Độ (印度)
• Welsh: India (cy)
• Western Panjabi: ھندستان (pnb)
• Yiddish: אינדיע (indye)
• Zazaki: Hindıstan

the letter "I"

• Estonian: Iida
• Finnish: Iivari

• Russian: Ива́н (ru) m (Iván)

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, Telangana, 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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Asturian

Wikipedia ^ast

Proper noun

India f

1. India (country)

Related terms

• indiu

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

India n

1. India (country)

Related terms

• 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

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^(key): /ˈɪnʲdʲiə/

Proper noun

an India f (genitive India)

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

Usage notes

Always preceded by the definite article.

Synonyms

• Poblacht na hIndia

Derived terms

• Indiach (“Indian”)
• na hIndiacha (“the Indies”)

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.

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

India f (plural Indie)

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

Derived terms

• indiano

Anagrams

• daini

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Proper noun

India f (genitive Indiae); first declension

1. India

Inflection

First declension with locative.

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

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Malagasy

Wikipedia ^mg

Proper noun

India

1. India

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Norwegian

Proper noun

India

1. India

Related terms

• indar (Nynorsk)
• inder (Bokmål)
• indisk (Bokmål), indisk (Nynorsk)

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Romanian

Proper noun

India f

1. India (country)

Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Proper noun

India f

1. India