Indian

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.
2. (obsolete) Eastern; Oriental.
3. Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
4. (Canada, US) Made with Indian corn or maize.
5. Designating any of various chess openings now characterised by black's attempt to control the board through knights and fianchettoed bishops rather than with a central pawn advance.

Noun

1. (countable) A person from India.
2. (countable) An American Indian, a member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, and Yupik).
3. (countable, obsolete) An indigenous inhabitant of Australia, New Zealand or the Pacific islands.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of Indian cuisine.
5. (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, countable, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Indian meal (“meal consisting of Indian cuisine”).
6. (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, countable, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Indian restaurant (“restaurant serving Indian cuisine”).
7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Mardi Gras Indian.
8. (countable, uncountable) A kind of marble (spherical toy) with colored bands on an opaque black base.

Name

1. (nonstandard) Any of the (unrelated) languages spoken by American Indians.
2. (nonstandard, rare) Any language spoken by natives of India, especially Hindi.

Concepts

Indien

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

indien

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

Indienne

Amérindien

Amérindienne

indien indienne

indienne

hindou

amérindien

l’indien

amérindienne

Hindou

autochtone

Synonymes

American Indian

Hindu

Native American

Red Indian

Amerind

Indus

Amerindian

native

American-Indian language

Amerindian language

Amerindic

native American

aboriginal

beekinje

First Nations

Traductions

indio

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

indiano

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

indi

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

índio

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

Inder

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

indiano

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

indisch

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

india

Indianer

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

indiana

Indiaan

Inderin

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

Ινδός

índia

índia

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɪɳ.ɖɪə̯n/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Anglo-Norman indien, Middle French indien, corresponding to Ind + -ian or India + -an. Applied to inhabitants of the Americas due to an early misconception that the Americas were the eastern end of Asia / the Indies (hence also the designation of Caribbean islands as the West Indies).

Phrases

Philip knew that she was not an Indian .

Philip savait qu'elle n'était pas indienne.

In that year ‘The Indian Engineer’ reported moves to construct an electric tramway .

Cette année-là, «l’ingénieur indien» a rapporté des déménagements pour construire un tramway électrique.

She was born in Indian Head , Saskatchewan and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan .

Elle est née à Indian Head, en Saskatchewan et est diplômée de l'Université de la Saskatchewan.