Indus

Borrowed from Latin Indus, from Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿduš), from Proto-Iranian *hindu- (compare Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬧𐬛𐬎‎ (hiṇdu-)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sindʰus or borrowed from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪndəs/
• Rhymes: -ɪndəs

Indus

1. A large river of south-central Asia, rising in Tibet and flowing through India and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea.

• Indus Valley Civilization

• Indian
• Indies

• 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)

Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Latin Indus (“Indian”), commemorating American Indians.

Indus

1. (astronomy) A constellation of the southern sky between Grus and Pavo.

• Indi

A clipping of industry

Indus

1. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada

• nidus

Indus m

1. the Indus river

• IPA^(key): [ˈinduʃ]
• Hyphenation: In‧dus

Indus

1. Indus (a large river of south-central Asia)

From Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós).

View of the river

Indus m (genitive Indī); second declension

1. The Indus River.

Second declension.

• indus

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Indus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• 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