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  Indic

  noun

  a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European languages that includes Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, and many other languages of India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; Indo-Aryan.
• indic.
  indic.

  abbreviation

  indicating.

Indic

¹ American  

[in-dik] / ˈɪn dɪk /

noun

1. a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European languages that includes Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, and many other languages of India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; Indo-Aryan.

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adjective

1. of or relating to India; Indian.

2. of or relating to Indic; Indo-Aryan.

indic. ² American  

abbreviation

1. indicating.

2. indicative.

3. indicator.

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indic. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. indicating

2. indicative

3. indicator

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Indic ² British  

/ ˈɪndɪk /

adjective

1. denoting, belonging to, or relating to a branch of Indo-European consisting of the Indo-European languages of India, including Sanskrit, Hindi and Urdu, Punjabi, Gujerati, Bengali, and Sinhalese

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noun

1. this group of languages

Etymology

Origin of Indic

First recorded in 1875–80; from Latin Indicus “of India,” from Greek Indikós; see India, -ic

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Indic indic.

“Dharma,” one of the great untranslatable Indic words, can mean “duty,” or “religion” or “vocation,” but it is fundamentally a duty to oneself, to one’s nature.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

“The Mahabharata is one of two ancient poems. It was written in Sanskrit, an ancient Indic language that is no longer spoken.”

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Lydia! girl of prettiest mien, And fairest skin, that e'er were seen: Lilies, cream, thy cheeks disclose; The ruddy and the milky rose; Smooth thy limbs as ivory shine, Burnished from the Indic mine.

From Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter by Ernest Govett

He studied Persian and Arabic literature at Patna, the centre of Indic Mohammedan learning.

From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

In short, they read history backwards, for theirs is not the Indic way of dealing with gods.

From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

Does, duz, 3d pers. sing. pres. indic. of Do.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Have, an active verb, signifying to possess, indic. present, and having for its object, book understood after "which."

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham

The Tenses, etc., of these verbs are found as follows: 1 2 1 2 Pres. indic. ete or tede. elele.

From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson

Or take a scruple each of pil. indic. foetid, agarici, trochis ati; one scruple of rhubarb pills, six grains of lapis lazuli, make into pills with epithimium, and take them once a week.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

The sense requires lay, i.e. the 3rd p. s. pt. t. indic., but properly the word is the present participle, lying.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat