India

Meaning

1. A country in South Asia. Official name: Republic of India. Capital: New Delhi.
2. (historical, proscribed) A region of South Asia, traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent.
3. (historical) A territory of the British Empire, chiefly comprising the modern day countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Burma.
4. A female given name.

Synonyms

Republic of India

Bharat

Gujarati

Marathi

Oriya

Sikar

Bombay

delivery

Taj Mahal

Trivandrum

Coimbatore

Golconda

Hindustan

Jammu

Bhubaneswar

Jodhpur

Singh

Dehradun

mofussil

the Republic of India

Lashkar

Haora

Anand

Bengali script

Gujarati script

Devanagari alphabet

Marāthi

Oriya script

Kodimunai

Bangla

𐐆𐑌𐐼𐐨𐐲

Bengali

Translations

Inde

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Indien

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India

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India

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Índia

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Ινδία

Índia

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الهند

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India

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Hindistan

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India

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Índia

Hindistan

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Indië

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɪndɪ.ə/

Etymology

Inherited from Old English: India

Cognate with Middle English: Inde

Cognate with Old French: Ynde

Cognate with Sanskrit: सिन्धु

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš
Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš
Sanskrit सिन्धु॑ (síndhu)bor.
Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš)bor.
Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós)
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía)bor.
Latin Indiabor.
Old English Indea
English India
Inherited 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 Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”).
Compare Middle English Inde and Ynde from Old French Ynde (original form started to prevail in the 16th century), Classical Persian هند (hind, “India”), Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”).

Sentences

The government head of its legal wing is the Attorney General of India .

In India , a lieutenant governor is in charge of a union territory .

It is one of the protected monuments in Kerala under Archaeological Survey of India .

Manipal Hospitals is the second largest healthcare provider in India .

The Government of British India intervened and ordered Umra Khan to leave Chitral .