Indian

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

American Indian

Hindu

Native American

Red Indian

Amerind

Indus

Amerindian

native

American-Indian language

Amerindian language

Amerindic

native American

aboriginal

beekinje

First Nations

Traducións

indio

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

indiano

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

Indien

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

indien

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

indi

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

Indienne

índio

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

Inder

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

indiano

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

indisch

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

Indianer

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

india

Indiaan

indiana

Inderin

🇮🇳/🇮🇴

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈɪɳ.ɖɪə̯n/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

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).

Frases

Philip knew that she was not an Indian .

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

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