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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

For his two ballads dealing with Indic subjects, "Der Gott und die Bajadere" and "Der Paria", the material was taken, not from works of Sanskrit literature, but from a book of travel.

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

The splendor of an Indic landscape haunts the imagination of the poet.

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

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 Morris Jastrow

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

Saith, seth, v.t. and v.i. 3d pers. sing. pres. indic. of say.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Duck-batches, land trodden by cattle in wet weather Bats s.  corners of ploughed fields: low-laced boots Bawker: Bawker-stone s.  a stone for whetting scythes Be, indic. ex.

From A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire by Wadham Pigott Williams

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

Possibility, verbs of, put in indic. in cond. sentences, 304, 3, a. possum, 126; —— with present infin.,

From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett