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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

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

To lick a hot ploughshare, to sit on or handle hot iron, and to take a short walk over coals is late Indic.

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

For, if one examine the maze of India's tangled creeds, he will be surprised to find that, though dogmatic Christianity has its Indic representative, there yet is no indigenous representative of undogmatic Christianity.

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

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

In the strong verbs the plur. of the pret. indic. generally has a different vowel from that of the sing.

From Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary by Henry Sweet

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

An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

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