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Indic¹
- /ˈɪndɪk/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɪndɪk
Where it comes from
From Latin Indicus from Ancient Greek Ἰνδικός (Indikós), from Ἰνδία (Indía) + -ικός (-ikós). By surface analysis, India + -ic. Doublet of indigo.
adjective more Indic · most Indic
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Relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages which are its descendants.
Similar: Indo-Aryan
- Relating to the Brahmic scripts.
- Pertaining to India or its people, culture and languages; Indian. Clearly, men like ʿAin al-Mulk and Aravit Rama Raja could not have migrated successfully between the predominantly Islamicate world of Bijapur and Golconda and the more Indic world of Vijayanagara had they not been proficient in Telugu or Kannada as well as in Dakhni or Persian.
proper noun
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A branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern descendants such as Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi.
Second, it is the only group that directly attests to a period of common development between two branches of the Indo-European family, namely, Indic and Iranian.
Similar: Indo-Aryan
indic²
adjective
- Of or relating to indium. indic oxide
Translations
Every language
adj relating to modern Indian languages
| Español | índico |
|---|---|
| Русский | инди́йский indíjskij |
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