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  • Indic
    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.


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.


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

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Etymology

Origin of Indic

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

Example Sentences

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“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

What is common and world-wide in the forms of Indic faith we have shown in a previous chapter.

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

Both the Indic ballads are a fervent plea for the innate nobility of humanity.

From The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Remy, Arthur F. J.

The old Indic and the old Iranian religions seem to have been independent developments from a common original mass of material; but we do not know what determined the differences in the two developments.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris