Indus

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).

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

Indus

1. 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, 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.

• Indus River dolphin (“Indus Valley bullfrog”)

• 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

• Dinus, nidus

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪndus]

Indus m inan (related adjective induský)

1. the Indus river

From Latin Indus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈindus/, [ˈindus̠]
• Rhymes: -indus
• Syllabification^(key): In‧dus

Indus

1. Indus (river)

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

Indus

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

From Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.dus/, [ˈɪn̪d̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.dus/, [ˈin̪d̪us]

Indus m sg (genitive Indī); second declension

1. The Indus River.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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