India

See also: india, Indïa, Índia, and índia

Translingual

Etymology

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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, 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 Proto-Iranian *hínduš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”), of uncertain origin.

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.

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

Translations

the country

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

  Syriac: ܗܢܕܘ‎

• Armenian: 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
• Brahui: Inđíá
• Breton: India
• Bulgarian: И́ндия (bg) f (Índija)
• Burmese: 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 Dong: 印度 (Éng-dô)

  Min Nan: 印度 (Ìn-tō͘)

  Wu: 印度 (in du)

• Crimean Tatar: İndistan
• Czech: Indie (cs) f
• Danish: Indien (da)
• Dhivehi: އިންޑިއާ‎ (inḍiā), ހިންދުސްތާނު‎ (dv) (hindustānu)
• Dinka: Indiɛn
• Dutch: India (nl) n
• Dzongkha: རྒྱ་གར་ (rgya gar)
• 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), (formal) भारतवर्ष (hi) m (bhāratvarṣ)
• Hungarian: India (hu)
• Icelandic: Indland (is) n
• Indonesian: India (id)
• 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)
• Kamba: India
• Kannada: ಭಾರತ (kn) (bhārata), (official) ಭಾರತ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ (bhārata gaṇarājya), ಹಿಂದೂಸ್ಥಾನ (hindūsthāna)
• Kashmiri: بًارت‎ (bًاrt), ہندُستٲن‎ (hndustạ̄n)
• Kazakh: Үндістан (Ündistan)
• Khmer: ឥណ្ឌា (km) (ʾəndiə), ឥណ្ឌៀ (km) (ʾəndiə)
• Kikuyu: India
• Korean: 인도 (Indo) (印度 (ko))
• Kumyk: Гьиндистан (Hindistan)
• Kyrgyz: Индия (ky) (İndiya)
• Lak: Гьиндусттан (Hindust̄an)
• Lao: ອິນເດຍ (lo) (’in dīa), ອິນເດັຽ (’in dīa)

• Latin: India (la) f
• Latvian: Indija f
• Lithuanian: Indija (lt) f
• Luo: India
• Luxembourgish: Indien
• Lü: ᦊᦲᧃᧈᦎᦴᧈ (ẏiin¹ṫuu¹)
• Macedonian: Индија (mk) f (Indija)
• Malagasy: India (mg)
• Malay: India
• Malayalam: ഇന്ത്യ (ml) (intya), ഭാരതം (ml) (bhārataṃ)
• Maltese: l-Indja
• Marathi: भारत (bhārat)
• Meru: India
• Middle Persian: hndwkʾn' (Hindūgān)
• Mongolian: Энэтхэг (Enetheg), ᠡᠨᠡᠳᠬᠡᠭ (enedkeg)
• Navajo: Tó Wónaanídę́ę́ʼ Bitsįʼ Yishtłizhii Bikéyah
• Neapolitan: Innia f
• Nepali: भारत (ne) (bhārat)
• Newari: भारत (bhārat)
• Norman: Înde f
• Norwegian: India (no)
• Novial: India
• 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)
• Polish: Indie (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: Índia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਭਾਰਤ (bhārt), ਹਿੰਦ (hind), ਹਿੰਦੁਸਤਾਨ (hindustān)
• Romani: Indiya, Pharatiya
• Romanian: India (ro) f
• Russian: И́ндия (ru) f (Índija)
• Samogitian: Indėjė
• Sanskrit: भारत (sa) n (bhārata), भारतवर्ष (sa) n (bhāratavarṣa)
• Santali: ᱥᱤᱧᱚᱛ (siñôt)
• 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 (sk) f
• Slovene: Índija (sl) f
• Spanish: India (es) f
• Swahili: India (sw), Hindi (sw), Uhindi
• Swedish: Indien (sv)
• 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)
• 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), ئەنەتكەك‎ (enetkek)
• Uzbek: Hindiston (uz)
• Vietnamese: Ấn Độ (vi) (印度)
• Welsh: India (cy)
• Western Panjabi: ھندستان‎ (pnb)
• Yiddish: אינדיע‎ (indye)
• Yoruba: India
• Zazaki: Hindıstan
• Zhuang: Yindu

the letter "I"

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

• Italian: Imola
• 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, iniad

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Asturian

Proper noun

India f

1. India (country)

Related terms

• indiu

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Dutch

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

Proper noun

India

1. India

   Synonyms: Bharat, Hindustan

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

India

1. India

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	India	Indiák
accusative	Indiát	Indiákat
dative	Indiának	Indiáknak
instrumental	Indiával	Indiákkal
causal-final	Indiáért	Indiákért
translative	Indiává	Indiákká
terminative	Indiáig	Indiákig
essive-formal	Indiaként	Indiákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Indiában	Indiákban
superessive	Indián	Indiákon
adessive	Indiánál	Indiáknál
illative	Indiába	Indiákba
sublative	Indiára	Indiákra
allative	Indiához	Indiákhoz
elative	Indiából	Indiákból
delative	Indiáról	Indiákról
ablative	Indiától	Indiáktól

Possessive forms of India
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Indiám	Indiáim
2nd person sing.	Indiád	Indiáid
3rd person sing.	Indiája	Indiái
1st person plural	Indiánk	Indiáink
2nd person plural	Indiátok	Indiáitok
3rd person plural	Indiájuk	Indiáik

Related terms

• Indiai Köztársaság
• indiai

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Irish

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

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 (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.

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

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

Proper noun

India

1. India

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

India

1. India

Derived terms

• Indiahavet

Related terms

• inder
• indisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

India

1. India

Derived terms

• Indiahavet

Related terms

• indar
• indisk

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Portuguese

Proper noun

India f

1. Obsolete spelling of Índia

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Romanian

Proper noun

India f

1. India (country)

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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/, [ˈĩn̪d̪ja]

Proper noun

India f

1. India

Related terms

• indio

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Swahili

Etymology

From English India.

Proper noun

India

1. India

   Synonyms: Uhindi, Hindi