India

India [1]
India [2]
India [3]

• india, INDIA

Borrowed from English India.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪndia]^[1]

India

1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter I.
2. (nautical) Signal flag for the letter I.
3. (time zone) UTC+09:00

ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codes

Alfa

Bravo

Charlie

Delta

Echo

Foxtrot

Golf

Hotel

India

Juliett

Kilo

Lima

Mike

November

Oscar

Papa

Quebec

Romeo

Sierra

Tango

Uniform

Victor

Whiskey

Xray

Yankee

Zulu

zero

one

two

three (tree)

four (fower)

five (fife)

six

seven

eight

nine (niner)

hundred

thousand

decimal

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”).

• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈɪndɪ.ə/, /ˈɪɳɖɪjaː/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪndiːə/

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• (General American) enPR: ĭnʹdēə, IPA^(key): /ˈɪndi.ə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪndiə

India (plural Indias)

2. A country in South Asia. Official name: Republic of India. Capital: New Delhi.

   Synonyms: Hindustan, Bharat

   • 2024 February 15, Aishwarya S Iyer and Rhea Mogul, “‘Erasing a part of history’ – What a double mosque demolition tells us about India ahead of crucial election”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The demolition of two mosques in India within days of each other has highlighted the deep religious divide in the country, months before voters head to the polls for a nationwide election that is expected to hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi a rare third term in power.

4. (chiefly historical, proscribed in modern use) A region of South Asia, traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent.
5. (historical, often "British India") A territory of the British Empire, chiefly comprising the modern day countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Burma.
6. A female given name.

When discussing the pre-modern history of South Asia, naming the entire subcontinent India is common. For discussing the current states, which include the Republic of India, this can cause offense and confusion and is usually avoided with the terms Indian Subcontinent or South Asia (except in the specific context of discussing Indian reunification).

At times when multiple countries existed in South Asia, these have sometimes been pluralised as Indias or Indies. The word Indies survives in some place names such as East Indies and West Indies but is otherwise obsolete.

• (Republic of India): Bharat, Hinduland (rare), Hindustan
• (Landmass): Indian subcontinent, South Asia (usually including Indian Ocean nations), the subcontinent

• (the subcontinent): Pakistan, Bangladesh

• → Gujarati: ઈન્ડિયા (īnḍiyā)
• → Hawaiian: ʻĪnia, ʻInia
• → Hindi: इंडिया (iṇḍiyā)
• → Bengali: ইন্ডিয়া (inḍiẏa)
• → Japanese: インディア
• → Kannada: ಇಂಡಿಯಾ (iṇḍiyā)
• → Kashmiri: इंडिया (iṃḍiyā)
• → Korean: 인디아 (india)
• → Malayalam: ഇന്ത്യ (intya), ഇന്റ്യ (inṟya), ഇന്ദ്യ (indya)
• → Marathi: इंडिया (iṇḍiyā)
• → Tamil: இந்தியா (intiyā)
• → Telugu: ఇండియా (iṇḍiyā)
• → Yoruba: Íńdíà

• Countries of the world

• Bharat

• I and I, NIAID, iniad

India

1. definite nominative singular of Indi

Ultimately from Latin India

• IPA^(key): /ˈindja/ [ˈĩn̪.d̪ja]
• Rhymes: -indja
• Syllabification: In‧dia

India f

1. India (a country in South Asia)

• indiu

• IPA^(key): /india/ [ĩn̪.d̪i.a]
• Rhymes: -ia, -a
• Hyphenation: In‧di‧a

India inan

1. India (a country in South Asia)

Latin India

India

1. India (a country in South Asia)

India

1. India (a country in South Asia)

From Latin India.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.diˌaː/

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• Hyphenation: In‧di‧a

India n

1. India (a country in South Asia)

• hindoe
• Indiaas
• Indiër / Indiase

From Latin India, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), from Ἰνδός (Indós, “Indus River”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš) (Persian هند (hend)) from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntia/

India n

1. India (a country in South Asia)

Hindi इंडिया (iṇḍiyā)

India

1. India (a country in South Asia)

   Synonyms: Bharat, Hindustan

• Índia (reintegrationist)

Latin India

• IPA^(key): /ˈindja/ [ˈin̪.d̪jɐ]

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• Rhymes: -indja
• Hyphenation: In‧dia

India f

1. India (a country in South Asia)

• indio

From Latin India.

• IPA^(key): [ˈindijɒ]
• Hyphenation: In‧dia
• Rhymes: -jɒ

India

1. India (a country in South Asia; official name: Indiai Köztársaság)

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Índia, from Old Galician-Portuguese India.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈintia/
• Rhymes: -intia
• Syllabification: In‧di‧a

India n

1. India (a country in South Asia)

From Dutch India, 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”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪndia̯]
• Hyphenation: In‧dia

India

1. India (a country in South Asia)

• “India” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Russian Индия (Indija).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈindiɑ/, [ˈinde̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈindiɑ/, [ˈintiɑ]
• Rhymes: -indeː, -indiɑ
• Hyphenation: In‧di‧a

India

1. India (a country in Asia)
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 123:

     Anglian päävladenjat ollaa India, Australia, Lounatafrikan sojuza, Kanada.

     England's main subjects are India, Australia, South African Union, Canada.

Declension of India (type 3/kana, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	India	—
genitive	Indian	—
partitive	Indiaa	—
illative	Indiaa	—
inessive	Indiaas	—
elative	Indiast	—
allative	Indialle	—
adessive	Indiaal	—
ablative	Indialt	—
translative	Indiaks	—
essive	Indianna, Indiaan	—
exessive1)	Indiant	—
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Latin India

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnʲdʲiə/

An India f (genitive na hIndia, nominative plural na hIndiacha)

1. India (a country in South Asia; official name: Poblacht na hIndia)

Always preceded by the definite article.

• “India”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “India”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

From Latin India.

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.dja/^[1]
• Rhymes: -indja
• Hyphenation: Ìn‧dia

India f

1. India (a country in South Asia)

• Indie
• indiano

• daini

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós, “the Indus river”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš), from Proto-Iranian *hínduš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”), of uncertain origin.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪn.di.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈin̪.d̪i.a]

India f sg (genitive Indiae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) (chiefly historical, proscribed in modern use) India (a region of South Asia, traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent)
2. (New Latin) India (a country in South Asia)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Sicilian: Ìnnia

• India in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• India in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Latin India

India

1. India (a country in South Asia)

Latin India

India

1. India (a country in South Asia)

• Indiahavet

• inder
• indisk

Latin India

India

1. India (a country in South Asia)

• Indiahavet
• Bakindia

• indar
• indisk

India m

1. alternative form of Indea

India f

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Índia.

Latin India

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India f

1. India (a country in South Asia)

• IPA^(key): [ˈinɟi̯a]

India f (genitive singular Indie, declension pattern of ulica)

1. India (a country in South Asia)

• “India”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Borrowed from Latin India, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), from Ἰνδός (Indós, “Indus River”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš) (modern Persian هند (hend)) from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈindja/ [ˈĩn̪.d̪ja]

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• Rhymes: -indja
• Syllabification: In‧dia

India f

1. India (a country in South Asia)

• The definite article is optional when referring to India in Spanish (i.e. la India).

• “India”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from English India.

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India

1. India (a country in South Asia)

   Synonyms: Uhindi, Hindi

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪndja/
• Rhymes: -ɪndja

India f

1. India (a country in South Asia)

In older, more formal language, this country name is found preceded by the definite article yr.

• cnau'r India (“nutmegs”)
• yr India Ddwyreiniol (“the East Indies”)
• yr India Orllewinol (“the West Indies”)

From English India.

IPA^(key): /ĩ́.dí.à/, /í.ŋ́.dí.à/

Índíà or Íńdíà

1. India (a country in South Asia)