𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁
Old Persian
The name Hidūš (𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁) in Old Persian cuneiform in the DNa inscription of Darius I, circa 500 BCE.
Etymology
From Proto-Iranian *hínduš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”).
Proper noun
𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiduš)[1][2][3]. Variations: Hidauv in the locative case (𐏃𐎡𐎭𐎢𐎺 in DSf)[4] or Hiduya (𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐎹 in A.2P)[5] Sometimes transliterated hinduš (the "n" was not written in Old Persian). Rare contemporary orthography Hi-in-du-iš in the Elamite language to designate the ethnicity seem to be known.[6]
Descendants
- Achaemenid Egyptian (Hieroglyphic): 𓉔𓈖𓂧𓍯𓇌, H-n-d-wꜣ-y (“India”)[7][8]
- Middle Persian: hndwk'ʾn (hindūgān, “Hindustan”)
- Persian: هند (Hend), هندوستان (Hendustân)
- Bashkir: һинд (hind)
- → Bengali: হিন্দ (hind), হিন্দুস্থান (hindusthan)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: हिंद (hind), हिंदुस्तान (hindustān)
- Fiji Hindi: Hindustan
- Urdu: ہند (hind), ہندوستان (hindustān)
- Hindi: हिंद (hind), हिंदुस्तान (hindustān)
- → English: Hindustan
- → Marathi: हिंदुस्थान (hindusthān)
- → Nepali: हिन्दुस्तान् (hindustān)
- → Oriya: ହିନ୍ଦ୍ (hind), ହିନ୍ଦୁସ୍ତାନ (hindustān)
- → Punjabi: ਹਿੰਦ (hind), ਹਿੰਦੁਸਤਾਨ (hindustān)
- → Chinese: 天竺
- → Japanese: 天竺 (てんじく, Tenjiku)
- → Korean: 천축 (Cheonchuk)
- → Vietnamese: Thiên Trúc
- → Chinese: 印度
- → Chinese: 身毒
- → Japanese: 身毒 (しんどく, Shindoku)
- Persian: هند (Hend), هندوستان (Hendustân)
- → Ancient Greek: Ἰνδός (Indós), Ἰνδία (Indía)
- → Hebrew: הודו \ הֹדּוּ (hṓddū)
References
- Old Persian: Dictionary, Glossary and Concordance by Avi Bachenheimer
- Dna inscription of Darius I, Line 25
- Jason Neelis, Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks, BRILL 2010 p.96
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- Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume IV: The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millenium B.C. Ira Spar, Michael Jursa Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1 août 2014
- “Susa, Statue of Darius - Livius”, in (Please provide the title of the work) (in English), (Please provide a date or year)
- Encyclopaedia Iranica (in English), Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982, →ISBN, page 10
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