Indus

See also: indus and Indus.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭn′dəs
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, General Australian, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.dəs/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈən.dəs/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.ɖəs/
• Rhymes: -ɪndəs
• Hyphenation: In‧dus

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin Indus, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (h-i-du-u-š /⁠hiⁿduš⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *hínduš (compare Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬧𐬛𐬎 (hiṇdu)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš or borrowed from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu) (whence Sindh). Another explication relates the origin of Indus to Indra which itself derives from the root indu, i.e. " water place or water spirit".

Proper noun

Indus

2. A major river in China, India and Pakistan, rising in Tibet and flowing into the Arabian Sea.
   • 2022 August 28, “Pakistan's south braces for another deluge as northern rivers swell”, in France 24‎^[1], archived from the original on 28 August 2022, Asia / Pacific‎^[2]:

     The mighty Indus River that courses through Pakistan's second-most populous region is fed by dozens of mountain tributaries to the north, but many have burst their banks following record rains and glacier melt.

   • 2023 August 29, “Pakistan raises flood alert in eastern region as over 128,000 evacuated”, in EFE‎^[3], archived from the original on 24 April 2024:

     Floods in the river Sutlej – which originates in Tibet and crosses India before merging into the Indus river – has completely cut off several villages and areas in Pakistan, submerging hundreds of hectares of farmland.

Derived terms

• Indus River dolphin
• Indus Valley bullfrog
• Indus Valley Civilization

Related terms

• Indian
• Indies

Translations

the river

• Afrikaans: Indus
• Albanian: Ind
• Arabic: نَهْر الْسِنْد m (nahr al-sind)
• Armenian: Ինդոս (hy) (Indos)
• Azerbaijani: Hind
• Basque: Indus
• Belarusian: Інд m (Ind)
• Bengali: সিন্ধু (bn) (śindhu)
• Bulgarian: Инд m (Ind)
• Burmese: သိန္ဓု (sindhu.)
• Catalan: Indus (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印度河 (zh) (Yìndù Hé)

• Czech: Indus (cs) m
• Danish: Indus c
• Dutch: Indus m
• Esperanto: Induso
• Estonian: Indus (et)
• Finnish: Indus (fi)
• French: Indus (fr) m
• Galician: Indo m
• Georgian: ინდი (indi)
• German: Indus (de) m
• Greek: Ινδός (el) m (Indós)
• Gujarati: સિંધુ (sindhu)
• Hebrew: אינדוס m (Indus)
• Hindi: सिन्धु (hi) f (sindhu), सिन्ध (hi) f (sindh), सिंधु (hi) f (sindhu), सिंध (hi) f (sindh), सिन्ध नदी f (sindh nadī), सिंध नदी f (sindh nadī)
• Hungarian: Indus (hu)
• Icelandic: Indus
• Indonesian: Indus
• Irish: An Iondúis f
• Italian: Indo m
• Japanese: インダス川 (Indasu-gawa)
• Kazakh: Үнді (Ündı)
• Korean: 인더스 강 (indeoseu gang)
• Kyrgyz: Инд (İnd)
• Latin: Indus m
• Latvian: Inda f
• Lithuanian: Indas m
• Macedonian: Инд m (Ind)
• Malay: Indus
• Malayalam: സിന്ധു (ml) (sindhu)
• Marathi: सिन्धु f (sindhu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Indus m

  Nynorsk: Indus m

• Old Irish: Ind
• Pashto: اباسین m (Abâsin)
• Persian: سند (fa) (send)
• Polish: Indus (pl) m
• Portuguese: Indo m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਸਿੰਧ (pa) m (sindh)

  Shahmukhi: سِنْدھ m (sindh)

• Romanian: Ind m
• Russian: Инд (ru) m (Ind)
• Sanskrit: सिन्धु (sa) m or f (sindhu)
• Saraiki: سِنْدھ (skr) m (sindh), سِنّہہ f (sinnh), اَٹَک (skr) f (aṭak)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Инд m

  Roman: Ind (sh) m

• Slovak: Indus m
• Slovene: Ind m
• Spanish: Indo (es) m
• Swedish: Indus (sv) c
• Tajik: Ҳинду (Hindu)
• Tamil: சிந்து (ta) (cintu)
• Telugu: సింధూ (sindhū)
• Thai: สินธุ (th) (sǐn-tú)
• Turkish: İndus
• Turkmen: Ind
• Ukrainian: Інд m (Ind)
• Urdu: سِنْدھ m (sindh), دریائے سندھ m (dariyā-ē sindh)
• Uzbek: Hind
• Vietnamese: Sông Ấn

Further reading

• Hintze, Almut (1998) "The Migrations of the Indo-Iranians and the Iranian Sound-Change s > h." In: Meid, Wolfgang, (ed.), Sprache und Kultur der Indogermanen. Akten der 10.Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Innsbruck 22.-29.9.1996. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, 139-153, 1 map. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Bd. 93)

Etymology 2

Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Latin Indus (“Indian”), commemorating American Indians.

Proper noun

Indus

2. (astronomy) A constellation of the southern sky between Grus and Pavo.

Derived terms

• Indi

Translations

constellation

• Arabic: الْهِنْدِيّ (al-hindiyy)
• Estonian: Indiaanlane
• Finnish: Intiaani (fi)
• French: Indien (fr) m
• Galician: Indio (gl)
• German: Indianer (de) m, Inder (de) m
• Hungarian: Hindu (hu)
• Irish: an tIndiach m
• Japanese: インディアン座 (ja) (indianza)
• Polish: Indianin (pl) m
• Russian: Инде́ец m (Indéjec)
• Spanish: Indus (es)

Etymology 3

Clipping of industry.

Proper noun

Indus

2. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.

Anagrams

• Dinus, nidus

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪndus]

Proper noun

Indus m inan (relational adjective induský)

1. the Indus river

Declension

Declension of Indus (sg-only hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular
nominative	Indus
genitive	Indu
dative	Indu
accusative	Indus
vocative	Inde
locative	Indu
instrumental	Indem

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin Indus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈindus/, [ˈindus̠]
• Rhymes: -indus
• Syllabification^(key): In‧dus
• Hyphenation^(key): In‧dus

Proper noun

Indus

1. Indus (river)

Declension

Inflection of Indus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		Indus	—
genitive		Induksen	—
partitive		Industa	—
illative		Indukseen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Indus	—
accusative	nom.	Indus	—
	gen.	Induksen
genitive		Induksen	—
partitive		Industa	—
inessive		Induksessa	—
elative		Induksesta	—
illative		Indukseen	—
adessive		Induksella	—
ablative		Indukselta	—
allative		Indukselle	—
essive		Induksena	—
translative		Indukseksi	—
abessive		Induksetta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Indus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Indukseni — accusative nom. Indukseni — gen. Indukseni genitive Indukseni — partitive Industani — inessive Induksessani — elative Induksestani — illative Indukseeni — adessive Induksellani — ablative Indukseltani — allative Indukselleni — essive Induksenani — translative Induksekseni — abessive Induksettani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Induksesi — accusative nom. Induksesi — gen. Induksesi genitive Induksesi — partitive Industasi — inessive Induksessasi — elative Induksestasi — illative Indukseesi — adessive Induksellasi — ablative Indukseltasi — allative Induksellesi — essive Induksenasi — translative Indukseksesi — abessive Induksettasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Induksemme — accusative nom. Induksemme — gen. Induksemme genitive Induksemme — partitive Industamme — inessive Induksessamme — elative Induksestamme — illative Indukseemme — adessive Induksellamme — ablative Indukseltamme — allative Induksellemme — essive Induksenamme — translative Indukseksemme — abessive Induksettamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Induksenne — accusative nom. Induksenne — gen. Induksenne genitive Induksenne — partitive Industanne — inessive Induksessanne — elative Induksestanne — illative Indukseenne — adessive Induksellanne — ablative Indukseltanne — allative Induksellenne — essive Induksenanne — translative Indukseksenne — abessive Induksettanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Induksensa — accusative nom. Induksensa — gen. Induksensa genitive Induksensa — partitive Industaan Industansa — inessive Induksessaan Induksessansa — elative Induksestaan Induksestansa — illative Indukseensa — adessive Induksellaan Induksellansa — ablative Indukseltaan Indukseltansa — allative Indukselleen Induksellensa — essive Induksenaan Induksenansa — translative Induksekseen Indukseksensa — abessive Induksettaan Induksettansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

compounds

• induskulttuuri

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈinduʃ]
• Hyphenation: In‧dus
• Rhymes: -uʃ

Proper noun

Indus

1. Indus (a large river in south-central Asia)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Indus	—
accusative	Indust	—
dative	Indusnak	—
instrumental	Indussal	—
causal-final	Indusért	—
translative	Indussá	—
terminative	Indusig	—
essive-formal	Indusként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Indusban	—
superessive	Induson	—
adessive	Indusnál	—
illative	Indusba	—
sublative	Indusra	—
allative	Indushoz	—
elative	Indusból	—
delative	Indusról	—
ablative	Industól	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Indusé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Induséi	—

Possessive forms of Indus

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Indusom	Indusaim
2nd person sing.	Indusod	Indusaid
3rd person sing.	Indusa	Indusai
1st person plural	Indusunk	Indusaink
2nd person plural	Indusotok	Indusaitok
3rd person plural	Indusuk	Indusaik

Latin

View of the river

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪn.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈin̪.d̪us]

Proper noun

Indus m sg (genitive Indī); second declension

1. The Indus River.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Indus
genitive	Indī
dative	Indō
accusative	Indum
ablative	Indō
vocative	Inde

See also

• indus

References

• “Indus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "Indus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “Indus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[4]
• “Indus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Indus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Polish

Indus (sense 1)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Indus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.dus/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -indus
• Syllabification: In‧dus

Proper noun

Indus m inan

2. Indus (a major river in China, India and Pakistan, rising in Tibet and flowing into the Arabian Sea)
4. Indus (a hamlet in Alberta, Canada)

Declension

Declension of Indus

	singular
nominative	Indus
genitive	Indusu
dative	Indusowi
accusative	Indus
instrumental	Indusem
locative	Indusie
vocative	Indusie

Noun

Indus m pers (female equivalent Induska)

1. Indian (a person from India)

   Synonyms: Hindus, Indyjczyk

Declension

Declension of Indus

	singular	plural
nominative	Indus	Indusi/Indusy (deprecative)
genitive	Indusa	Indusów
dative	Indusowi	Indusom
accusative	Indusa	Indusów
instrumental	Indusem	Indusami
locative	Indusie	Indusach
vocative	Indusie	Indusi

Further reading

• Indus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Indus in Polish dictionaries at PWN