# Indian
## English
### Etymology

From Anglo-Norman indien, Middle French indien, corresponding to Ind +‎ -ian. Applied to inhabitants of the Americas due to an early misconception that the Americas were the eastern end of Asia / the Indies (hence also the designation of Caribbean islands as the West Indies).

### Pronunciation

* (India) IPA: /ˈɪɳ.ɖɪə̯n/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɪn.dɪ.ən/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɪn.di.ən/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪndiən
* Hyphenation: In‧di‧an

### Adjective

Indian (comparative more Indian, superlative most Indian)
* Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies. [from 14th c.]
    Synonyms: East Indian, Indic, Hindian, Desi, Indish (archaic)
* (obsolete) Eastern; Oriental.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre […] .
* Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. [from 16th c.]
** 1879, Friedrich August Flückiger et al., Pharmacographia..., page 346:The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns.
    Synonyms: Native American, Amerindian, First Nation
* (Canada, US, of foods) Made with Indian corn or maize. [from 17th c.]
    Indian bread
    Indian meal
* (chess) Designating any of various chess openings now characterised by black's attempt to control the board through knights and fianchettoed bishops rather than with a central pawn advance. [from 19th c.]

#### Derived terms

* American Indian
* Amerind (American Indian)
* Amerindian (American Indian)
* Asian Indian
* Black East Indian
* East Indian (“of, or related to, the people of the Indian subcontinent”)
* Hindian (Asian Indian)
* Indiana
* Indian aconite
* Indian almond
* Indian-American
* Indian apple
* Indian beet
* Indian bison
* Indian boys and girls
* Indian bullfrog
* Indian burn
* Indian carp
* Indian caustic barley
* Indian cobra
* Indian coral tree
* Indian corn
* Indian darter
* Indian elephant
* Indian fever
* Indian fig
* Indian file
* Indian fire
* Indian fox
* Indian geranium
* Indian ginger
* Indian giving
* Indian harp
* Indian hawthorn
* Indian hemp
* Indian hog deer
* Indian ink
* Indianize
* Indian lemonade
* Indian licorice
* Indian liquorice
* Indian mahogany
* Indian mulberry
* Indian mustard
* Indian myna
* Indianness
* Indian nightjar
* Indian Ocean
* Indian ox
* Indian paintbrush
* Indian paint pot
* Indian paintpot
* Indian paint rock
* Indian pangolin
* Indian pariah dog
* Indian peacock
* Indian peafowl
* Indian pipe
* Indian plum
* Indian poker
* Indian potato
* Indian pudding
* Indian red
* Indian relish
* Indian Revenue Service
* Indian rhinoceros
* Indian rhubarb
* Indian River
* Indian rojak
* Indian rugburn
* Indian Runner
* Indian sandalwood
* Indian sarsaparilla
* Indian sign
* Indian skimmer
* Indian spotted creeper
* Indian star tortoise
* Indian strawberry
* Indian style
* Indian summer
* Indian sunburn
* Indian swiftlet
* Indian thistle
* Indian tick typhus
* Indian warrior
* Indian wax scale
* Indian Wells
* Indian wheat
* Indian wolf
* Indian wrestling
* Indian yellow
* King's Indian Defence
* pan-Indian
* quantum of Indian blood
* Queen's Indian Defence
* Sino-Indian
* too many chiefs and not enough Indians
* West Indian (“of, or related to, the people of the Caribbean islands”)

#### Related terms

* Indo-

#### Translations
### Noun

Indian (countable and uncountable, plural Indians)
* (countable) A person from India. [from 13th c.]
    Synonyms: Asian Indian, East Indian, Hindian, Desi
* (countable) An American Indian, a member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, or Yupik). [from 16th c.]
    Synonyms: Amerindian, Native American, Red Indian, First Nations person; see also Thesaurus:Native American
** 1820 July, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Traits of Indian Character”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC:We stigmatize the Indians, also, as cowardly and treacherous, because they use stratagem in warfare in preference to open force; but in this they are fully justified by their rude code of honor.
** 1909, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “He Also Serves”, in Options‎:High Jack had been drinking too much rum ever since we landed in Boca. You know how an Indian is—the palefaces fixed his clock when they introduced him to firewater.
** 1951, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork:With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!
* (countable, obsolete) An indigenous inhabitant of Australia, New Zealand or the Pacific islands. [from 18th c.]
* (uncountable) Ellipsis of Indian cuisine.
    Have you ever tried Indian?
* (UK, countable, colloquial) Ellipsis of Indian meal (“meal consisting of Indian cuisine”). [from 20th c.]
    We're going out tonight for an Indian.
* (UK, countable, colloquial) Ellipsis of Indian restaurant (“restaurant serving Indian cuisine”).
    We're going down to the Indian for a curry—wanna join us?
* (countable) Ellipsis of Mardi Gras Indian.

#### Derived terms

* Pueblo Indian

#### Translations
### Proper noun

Indian
* (nonstandard) Any of the (unrelated) languages spoken by American Indians.
* (nonstandard, rare) Any language spoken by natives of India, especially Hindi.
** 1968, Anne Rider, A hilltop in hazard, page 51:[They said] 'Mutton can speak Indian', 'Mutton can see Kanchinjunga out of his bedroom window'[.]

### References

* ↑ “Indian”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

## Interlingua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /inˈdjan/

### Adjective

Indian
* Indian (of India)
* Native American; Indian