Ganges

Borrowed from Latin Gangēs, from Ancient Greek Γάγγης (Gángēs), from Sanskrit गङ्गा (gáṅgā, literally “swift-goer”), from the verbal root गम् (gam, “to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to come”) (whence Latin veniō, Ancient Greek βαίνω (baínō), and English come). Doublet of Ganga.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡændʒiːz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡænd͡ʒiz/

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the Ganges

1. A river in India and Bangladesh, sacred within Hinduism
   • 1625, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes‎^[1], volume III, London, →OCLC, page 340:

     ...the Yellow Riuer... is the other famous Riuer of that Kingdome, in greatneſſe and note, which ariſesth without the Kingdome to the Weſt, out of the Hill Cunlun, conjectured to bee the ſame whence Ganges ariſeth, or one neere to it.

   • 1968, Norman Mailer, “Nixon in Miami”, in Harper's, §6:

     ...their master... was no ad for anybody but the most arcane Black Power, he was an old prince of a witch doctor—insult him at your peril—but the other ten musicians with their trumpets and snares and assorted brass would prove no pull for Nixon on TV with any Black votes watching, for they were old and meek, naught but elderly Black Southern musicians, a veritable Ganges of Uncle Toms. They had disappeared with Tom Swift and Little Lord Fauntleroy.

• Ganga (in Indian English)

• Gangean
• Gangetic

• Gagens, Gagnes

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaŋɡɛs]

Ganges m inan (related adjective ganžský or gangský)

1. Alternative form of Ganga: Ganges (a major river in India and Bangladesh)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaŋəs/, (also) /ˈɡaŋɡɛs/

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der Ganges m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Ganges)

1. Ganges (a river in India and Bangladesh)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaŋəs/

Ganges

1. genitive singular of Gang

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γάγγης (Gángēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡan.ɡeːs/, [ˈɡäŋɡeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡan.d͡ʒes/, [ˈɡän̠ʲd͡ʒes]

Gangēs m sg (genitive Gangis); third declension

1. the Ganges

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• → English: Ganges
• French: Gange
  • → Arabic: الْغَانْج (al-ḡānj)
  • → Iranian Persian: گانْژ (gânž)
  • → Turkish: Ganj
• Italian: Gange
• → Polish: Ganges
• Portuguese: Ganges
• Spanish: Ganges

• Ganges in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin Ganges.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaŋ.ɡɛs/

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• Rhymes: -aŋɡɛs
• Syllabification: Gan‧ges

Ganges m inan

1. Ganges (a river in Bangladesh and India)

• Ganges in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: Gan‧ges

Ganges m

1. Ganges (a river in India and Bangladesh)

• gangético
• transgangético

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡanxes/ [ˈɡãŋ.xes]
• Rhymes: -anxes
• Syllabification: Gan‧ges

Ganges m

1. Ganges (the sacred river)