Indus
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin Indus, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (h-i-du-u-š /hiⁿduš/), from Proto-Iranian *hínduš (compare Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬧𐬛𐬎 (hiṇdu)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš or borrowed from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu) (whence Sindh).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Indus
- A major river in China, India and Pakistan, rising in Tibet and flowing into the Arabian Sea.
- 2023 August 29, “Pakistan raises flood alert in eastern region as over 128,000 evacuated”, in EFE[1], archived from the original on 24 April 2024:
- Floods in the river Sutlej – which originates in Tibet and crosses India before merging into the Indus river – has completely cut off several villages and areas in Pakistan, submerging hundreds of hectares of farmland.
Derived terms
[edit]- Indus River dolphin (“Indus Valley bullfrog”)
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the river
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References
[edit]- Hintze, Almut (1998) "The Migrations of the Indo-Iranians and the Iranian Sound-Change s > h." In: Meid, Wolfgang, (ed.), Sprache und Kultur der Indogermanen. Akten der 10.Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Innsbruck 22.-29.9.1996. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, 139-153, 1 map. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Bd. 93)
Etymology 2
[edit]Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Latin Indus (“Indian”), commemorating American Indians.
Proper noun
[edit]Indus
- (astronomy) A constellation of the southern sky between Grus and Pavo.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]constellation
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Etymology 3
[edit]A clipping of industry
Proper noun
[edit]Indus
Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Indus m inan (related adjective induský)
Declension
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Indus
- Indus (river)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Indus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Indus | — | |
genitive | Induksen | — | |
partitive | Industa | — | |
illative | Indukseen | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Indus | — | |
accusative | nom. | Indus | — |
gen. | Induksen | ||
genitive | Induksen | — | |
partitive | Industa | — | |
inessive | Induksessa | — | |
elative | Induksesta | — | |
illative | Indukseen | — | |
adessive | Induksella | — | |
ablative | Indukselta | — | |
allative | Indukselle | — | |
essive | Induksena | — | |
translative | Indukseksi | — | |
abessive | Induksetta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Hungarian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Indus
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Indus | — |
accusative | Indust | — |
dative | Indusnak | — |
instrumental | Indussal | — |
causal-final | Indusért | — |
translative | Indussá | — |
terminative | Indusig | — |
essive-formal | Indusként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Indusban | — |
superessive | Induson | — |
adessive | Indusnál | — |
illative | Indusba | — |
sublative | Indusra | — |
allative | Indushoz | — |
elative | Indusból | — |
delative | Indusról | — |
ablative | Industól | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Indusé | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Induséi | — |
Possessive forms of Indus | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Indusom | Indusaim |
2nd person sing. | Indusod | Indusaid |
3rd person sing. | Indusa | Indusai |
1st person plural | Indusunk | Indusaink |
2nd person plural | Indusotok | Indusaitok |
3rd person plural | Indusuk | Indusaik |
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈin.dus/, [ˈɪn̪d̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈin.dus/, [ˈin̪d̪us]
Proper noun
[edit]Indus m sg (genitive Indī); second declension
- The Indus River.
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun, singular only.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “Indus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Indus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “Indus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
- “Indus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Indus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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- en:Rivers in China
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- cs:Rivers in China
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- cs:Rivers in Pakistan
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- Rhymes:Finnish/indus
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- Rhymes:Hungarian/uʃ
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- hu:Rivers in Asia
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- hu:Rivers in Pakistan
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- la:Rivers in China
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