Indian in Different Languages
Discover 'Indian' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Indian
Afrikaans indiër | ||
Albanian indiane | ||
Amharic ህንድኛ | ||
Arabic هندي | ||
Armenian հնդիկ | ||
Assamese ভাৰতীয় | ||
Aymara indian ukax mä jach’a uñacht’äwiwa | ||
Azerbaijani hindistan | ||
Bambara ɛndiyɛnw | ||
Basque indiarra | ||
Belarusian індыйскі | ||
Bengali ইন্ডিয়ান | ||
Bhojpuri भारतीय के बा | ||
Bosnian indijski | ||
Bulgarian индийски | ||
Catalan índia | ||
Cebuano indian | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 印度人 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 印度人 | ||
Corsican indianu | ||
Croatian indijanac | ||
Czech indický | ||
Danish indisk | ||
Dhivehi އިންޑިއާ... | ||
Dogri भारतीय | ||
Dutch indisch | ||
English indian | ||
Esperanto indiano | ||
Estonian indiaanlane | ||
Ewe indiatɔwo ƒe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) indian | ||
Finnish intialainen | ||
French indien | ||
Frisian yndiaanske | ||
Galician indio | ||
Georgian ინდური | ||
German indisch | ||
Greek ινδός | ||
Guarani indio | ||
Gujarati ભારતીય | ||
Haitian Creole endyen | ||
Hausa ba'indiye | ||
Hawaiian ʻnia | ||
Hebrew הוֹדִי | ||
Hindi भारतीय | ||
Hmong khab | ||
Hungarian indián | ||
Icelandic indverskur | ||
Igbo onye india | ||
Ilocano indian | ||
Indonesian indian | ||
Irish indiach | ||
Italian indiano | ||
Japanese インド人 | ||
Javanese wong india | ||
Kannada ಭಾರತೀಯ | ||
Kazakh үнді | ||
Khmer ឥណ្ឌា | ||
Kinyarwanda umuhinde | ||
Konkani भारतीय | ||
Korean 인도 사람 | ||
Krio indian pipul dɛn | ||
Kurdish îndîyan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) هیندی | ||
Kyrgyz индия | ||
Lao ຄົນອິນເດຍ | ||
Latin indian | ||
Latvian indiānis | ||
Lingala mondele | ||
Lithuanian indėnas | ||
Luganda omuyindi | ||
Luxembourgish indesch | ||
Macedonian индиски | ||
Maithili भारतीय | ||
Malagasy indian | ||
Malay orang india | ||
Malayalam ഇന്ത്യൻ | ||
Maltese indjan | ||
Maori inia | ||
Marathi भारतीय | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯚꯥꯔꯇꯀꯤ ꯑꯦꯟ.ꯗꯤ.ꯑꯦ | ||
Mizo indian a ni | ||
Mongolian энэтхэг | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အိန္ဒိယ | ||
Nepali भारतीय | ||
Norwegian indisk | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mmwenye | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଭାରତୀୟ | ||
Oromo hindii | ||
Pashto هندي | ||
Persian هندی | ||
Polish indyjski | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) indiano | ||
Punjabi ਭਾਰਤੀ | ||
Quechua indio | ||
Romanian indian | ||
Russian индийский | ||
Samoan initia | ||
Sanskrit भारतीय | ||
Scots Gaelic innseanach | ||
Sepedi moindia | ||
Serbian индијанац | ||
Sesotho moindia | ||
Shona indian | ||
Sindhi انڊين | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඉන්දීය | ||
Slovak indický | ||
Slovenian indijski | ||
Somali hindi ah | ||
Spanish indio | ||
Sundanese india | ||
Swahili muhindi | ||
Swedish indisk | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) indian | ||
Tajik ҳиндустон | ||
Tamil இந்தியன் | ||
Tatar indianиндстан | ||
Telugu భారతీయుడు | ||
Thai อินเดีย | ||
Tigrinya ህንዳዊ | ||
Tsonga muindiya | ||
Turkish hintli | ||
Turkmen hindi | ||
Twi (Akan) indianifo | ||
Ukrainian індійський | ||
Urdu ہندوستانی | ||
Uyghur indian | ||
Uzbek hind | ||
Vietnamese người ấn độ | ||
Welsh indiaidd | ||
Xhosa umindiya | ||
Yiddish ינדיאַן | ||
Yoruba ara ilu india | ||
Zulu indiya |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In South Africa, the term 'Indiër' can also refer to someone of Indian descent, reflecting the country's history of Indian immigration. |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "Indiane" can also refer to a specific type of cotton fabric. |
| Amharic | In Amharic, ህንድኛ (Indian) can also refer to the Hindustani language, which is spoken in northern India and Pakistan. |
| Arabic | The word "هندي" has several meanings in Arabic, including "Indian", "related to India", "a person from India", and "the Hindi language" |
| Armenian | The word "Հնդիկ" can also refer to a person from India, Native Americans, or people from the Indian subcontinent. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "Hindistan" can also refer to the "land of the Indus River" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | Indiarra (Indian) means 'turkey' in Basque because the bird was originally thought to have come from the East Indies. |
| Bengali | In Bengali, the word "ইন্ডিয়ান" (Indian) is often used to refer to Native Americans as well as people from India. |
| Bosnian | U Bosni i Hercegovini, riječ „Indijski“ može se odnositi i na stanovnike Indije i na pripadnike Indijanaca, domorodačkog stanovništva Amerike. |
| Bulgarian | The word Индийски also refers to items made from Turkey red, a type of cotton dyed with roots of the madder plant, which was grown in the Indian subcontinent. |
| Catalan | "Índia" (Indian) comes from the Greek "Ἰνδία" and originally referred to the Indus River valley, which is now in modern Pakistan and India |
| Cebuano | The word "Indian" can also refer to a person from India or a Native American. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 印度人的本义为“靛青色的人”，明朝时期才开始用于称呼“印度人”。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 印度人 (Indian) 一詞在中文 (繁體) 中也可指來自印度的原住民，而不是來自印度的現代公民。 |
| Corsican | Corsican's 'Indianu' can also designate an indigenous person of India or a member of the indigenous tribes of North, South and Central America. |
| Croatian | The word "Indijanac" in Croatian can also refer to a Native American or person of Native American descent. |
| Czech | This term does not have any other meanings or an etymology in the Czech language. |
| Danish | The Danish word "Indisk" (Indian) comes from the Latin word "indicus" (Indian), and it can also mean "red" or "crimson" in reference to the natural dye produced from the "Indigofera" plant native to India. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "Indisch" can also refer to the people and culture of the former Dutch East Indies, in present-day Indonesia. |
| Esperanto | }Indiano} is also used in a colloquial way to describe a wealthy person who has returned from making a fortune abroad (in that sense, a cognate of the English word "nabob"). |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "indiaanlane" can also refer to Native Americans. |
| Finnish | Although intialainen means 'Indian' in Finnish, it also has the archaic meaning of 'Native American'. |
| French | The French word "Indien" can also refer to the native peoples of North and South America. |
| Georgian | The word ინდური is also used to refer to the Indian subcontinent or to the Hindi language |
| German | "Indisch" also refers to spices, fabrics and other imported goods in an oriental style known in German as "Indische Waren" or in English "Indic marchandises" |
| Greek | The term 'Ινδός' in Greek can also refer to the River Indus and its people, who were called 'Ινδοί' by the ancient Greeks. |
| Gujarati | In Sanskrit, "Bharat" means "the land of the Bharatas", and is used in Indian mythology to refer to ancient India. |
| Haitian Creole | Haitian Creole 'Endyen' comes from either the French 'Indien' or the Arawak 'In-di-ghen', meaning 'native'. |
| Hausa | This term can also connote 'paganism,' indicating both a particular set of beliefs and an identity as an outsider who does not belong among Muslims. |
| Hawaiian | The term ʻNia' also means 'one who is different' or 'one who is not Hawaiian' in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The word "הוֹדִי" in Hebrew comes from the Persian word "هندی" (hindi), which means "from India". |
| Hindi | भारतीय can also refer to a group of people in the Americas called the West Indies. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "Khab" may also refer to a type of traditional knife or a particular style of dance. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "indián" originated from the Latin word "indus", which meant "person from the Indus River region". |
| Icelandic | The term 'Indverskur' can also refer to a person from India or someone of Indian descent. |
| Igbo | The word “Onye India” in Igbo originates from the Igbo word “India” meaning “East”. |
| Indonesian | The term |
| Irish | The Irish word "Indiach" can also refer to a person from the Indian subcontinent or a Native American. |
| Italian | In Italian, |
| Japanese | "インド人" can also refer to Native American or a person from India in Chinese, Burmese or Thai |
| Javanese | Wong india or Indian in Javanese, refers to the people of the country of India, not Native Americans. |
| Kannada | The word "ಭಾರತೀಯ" can also refer to a person who knows or practices Indian music or traditional medicine. |
| Kazakh | The word "Үнді" in Kazakh can also refer to someone from India or the subcontinent, or to the Romani people. |
| Khmer | Some scholars believe that the Khmer word "ឥណ្ឌា" (Indian) is derived from the Sanskrit word "Indra" (a Vedic god), while others suggest it may come from the Persian word "Hind" (India). |
| Korean | In Korean, "인도 사람" (Indian) can also refer to Native Americans. |
| Kurdish | The word "îndîyan" is also used to refer to people from the subcontinent of India, not just Native Americans. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "Индия" can also refer to the continent of India, or to the people of India. |
| Lao | The Lao word ຄົນອິນເດຍ can also refer to people from other indigenous groups in Southeast Asia. |
| Latin | In Latin, Indianus refers to both the people of India and Native Americans, due to Christopher Columbus's error in believing he had reached the East Indies. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "indiānis" can also refer to a Native American, or to someone from India. |
| Lithuanian | The word "Indėnas" in Lithuanian can also refer to any indigenous person from the Americas. |
| Luxembourgish | "Indesch" derives from Latin "India", describing a geographical area that included present-day Pakistan and India, and referred to by the Greeks to describe peoples and cultures they encountered in their eastern campaigns |
| Macedonian | The word "Индиски" is also the Macedonian word for "American Indian". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "Indian" can also refer to someone from the Americas or someone of mixed Malagasy and Indian ancestry. |
| Malay | In the context of Indonesia's diverse demographics, "Indian" can also refer to indigenous peoples inhabiting certain areas of the archipelago. |
| Malayalam | The word |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "Indjan" can also refer to a native American |
| Maori | The Maori word "Inia" has multiple meanings, including "shadow" and "reflection". |
| Marathi | In Marathi, "भारतीय" not only means "Indian" but also refers to a specific astrological sign in the Hindu zodiac. |
| Mongolian | The word "Энэтхэг" (Indian) in Mongolian is derived from the Persian word "Hind" and can also refer to a person from India. |
| Nepali | भारतीय is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Bharat' meaning 'one who loves art'. |
| Norwegian | The word "Indisk" in Norwegian also means "Indian" as in relating to the country India or its people. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The term 'Mmwenye' is also used to refer to 'Asian' people, specifically those of Indian origin, and may be derived from the Swahili word 'Mnyamwezi', which means 'people of the moon'. |
| Pashto | The word "هندي" can also refer to the Hindi language or the Devanagiri script. |
| Persian | Persian word "هندی" also means “pertaining to the Indus River” or “related to the land near the Indus River”. |
| Polish | The word "indyjski" is also used to refer to Native Americans in Polish, reflecting the historical confusion between the two groups. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "indiano" can also refer to a person from the state of Bahia, Brazil, known for its strong African influence in culture and history. |
| Punjabi | ਭਾਰਤੀ (Bhārati) also refers to the goddess of wisdom in Hindu mythology, known as the goddess of learning, literature, art and music. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "indian" can also refer to a South Asian person or the country of India. |
| Russian | The Russian word "Индийский" can also refer to the indigo color or to India ink. |
| Samoan | The word "Initia" in Samoan can also refer to the concept of "initiation" or the "beginning" of something. |
| Scots Gaelic | It's actually 'Innseachanach' which derives from 'Innse nan Each' (Island of Horses). |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "Индијанац" can also refer to a Native American or Indigenous American person. |
| Sesotho | The word "Moindia" in Sesotho can also mean "someone who comes from the East". |
| Shona | In Shona, 'Indian' (mhindi) means a person of Indian descent, not only a citizen of India. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word for 'Indian' is thought to derive from the Sanskrit word 'Sindhu', meaning 'river' and referring specifically to the Indus River. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word ඉන්දීය (Indian) is derived from the Sanskrit word सिन्धु (Sindhu), which originally referred to the Indus River. |
| Slovak | Indický is derived from Sanskrit, meaning "from India", but is also used as a synonym for "American Indigenous". |
| Slovenian | Indijski oreh means “walnut” in Slovenian, as does indijski trpotec mean “plantain” while indijska trava means “hemp”. |
| Somali | The word "Hindi ah" in Somali also refers to the language of India, Hindi. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "indio" is ultimately derived from the Latin "indicus", referring to the inhabitants of India, but in Spanish and Portuguese it has come to mean "native American". |
| Swahili | Muhindi was also the term used to describe Indian immigrants before they became known as "Wahindi" (people of India) |
| Swedish | The word "Indisk" in Swedish can also mean "busy" or "difficult to understand", unrelated to the nationality or origin. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "Indian" in Tagalog (Filipino) can also mean "Native American" or "American Indian". |
| Tajik | 'Ҳиндустон' is also used to refer to any foreign country in Tajik. |
| Tamil | "இந்தியன்" has alternative meanings of someone or something belonging to India, a Native American, and a person of South Asian descent who has been living in a European colony for a long time. |
| Telugu | "భారతీయుడు" (Indian) also means 'a member of any of a group of peoples whose home is around the Indian Ocean'. |
| Thai | In Thai, the word "อินเดีย" also refers to American Indians, native Americans, and indigenous peoples of the Americas. |
| Turkish | Hintli is also used in Turkish to refer to the color crimson. |
| Ukrainian | “Індійський” also means “Turkey” in Ukrainian. |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "Hind" can also refer to a legendary Indian sage or a mythical river. |
| Vietnamese | The word "người Ấn Độ" in Vietnamese not only means "Indian" but also refers to Native Americans as well as other indigenous peoples in the Americas |
| Welsh | The word 'Indiaidd' in Welsh can also mean 'Hindu' or 'Buddhist'. |
| Xhosa | The term "UmIndiya" (or 'Umalayisha' in Zulu) also refers to a type of traditional beadwork originating from India. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "ינדיאַן" is derived from the Hebrew word "יוד" (Judah) and was originally used to refer to Jews, but its meaning later shifted to denote Native Americans. |
| Yoruba | The word "Ara ilu India" has a Yoruba origin meaning "people of the Indian continent". |
| Zulu | The word "Indiya" in Zulu can also mean "person from India" or "Indian culture". |
| English | The term "Indian" has also been used to refer to Native Americans, the indigenous people of North America. |