Indus

See also: indus and Indus.

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin Indus, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿduš), from Proto-Iranian *hínduš (compare Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬧𐬛𐬎 (hiṇdu-)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš or borrowed from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪndəs/
• Rhymes: -ɪndəs

Proper noun

Indus

1. A large river in south-central Asia, rising in Tibet and flowing through India and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea.

Derived terms

• 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 (śindhu)
• Bulgarian: Инд m (Ind)
• 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)
• Hungarian: Indus (hu)
• Icelandic: Indus
• Indonesian: Indus
• Irish: An Iondúis f
• Italian: Indo m
• Japanese: インダス川 (Indasu-Jōyō)
• Kazakh: Үнді (Ündı)
• Korean: 인더스 강 (indeoseu gang)
• Kyrgyz: Инд (İnd)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: Indus m
• Latvian: Inda f
• Lithuanian: Indas m
• Macedonian: Инд m (Ind)
• Malay: Indus
• 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: ਸਿੰਧ (pa) (sindh)
• Romanian: Ind m
• Russian: Инд (ru) m (Ind)
• Sanskrit: सिन्धु (sa) m or f (sindhu)
• 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: แม่น้ำสินธุ (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-sin-tú)
• Turkish: İndus
• Turkmen: Ind
• Ukrainian: Інд m (Ind)
• Urdu: سندھ ندی f (Sindh Nadi)
• Uzbek: Hind
• Vietnamese: Sông Ấn

References

• 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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Indus (“Indian”), commemorating American Indians.

Proper noun

Indus

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

Derived terms

• Indi

Translations

constellation

• Estonian: Indiaanlane
• Finnish: Intiaani (fi)
• French: Indien (fr) m
• Galician: Indio (gl)
• German: Indianer (de) m, Inder (de) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: Hindu (hu)
• Irish: an tIndiach m
• Polish: Indianin (pl) m
• Russian: Инде́ец m (Indéjec)
• Spanish: Indus (es)

Etymology 3

A clipping of industry

Proper noun

Indus

1. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada

Anagrams

• nidus

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Czech

Proper noun

1. the Indus river

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

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

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós).

View of the river

Proper noun

Indus m sg (genitive Indī); second declension

1. The Indus River.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	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^[1]
• “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