Indo Aryan - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: indo aryanIndo Aryan
Pertaining to the Indo Aryans or designating or of the Aryan languages of India...
Indo European
Aryan applied to the languages of India and Europe which are derived from the prehistoric Aryan language also pertaining to the people or nations who speak these languages as the Indo European or Aryan family...
Hindu
Hindu, The historical and etymological genesis of the word 'Hindu' has given rise to a controversy amongst ideologists; but the view generally accepted by scholars appears to be that the word 'Hindu' is derived from the river Sindhu otherwise known as Indus which flows from the Punjab. 'That part of the great Aryan race', says Monier Williams, 'which immigrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu (now called the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by Monler Williams, p.1.)'. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VI, has described 'Hinduism' as the title applied to that form of religion which prevails among the vast majority of the present population of the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has obs...
Dravida
A race of Hindustan believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindu or Aryan invasion...
Hindoo
A native inhabitant of Hindostan As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda...
Firefish
A singular marine fish of the genus Pterois family Scorpaelignidaelig of several species inhabiting the Indo Pacific region They are usually red and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins...
Indo
A prefix signifying Indian i e East Indian of or pertaining of India...
Indo Briton
A person born in India of mixed Indian and British blood a half caste...
Indochinese
Of or pertaining to Indo China i e Farther India or India beyond the Ganges...
Indo do Chinese languages
A family of languages mostly of the isolating type although some are agglutinative spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south...
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