賢豆
/ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ toʊ̯⁵¹/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•India
Etimoloji
An old name for India, attested in Xu Gaosengzhuan (續高僧傳, Further Biographies of the Eminent Monks) [645 CE]. Borrowed from Middle Persian hndwk' (Hindūg, “Indian”), from hnd (Hind, “India”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢 (hiⁿdu-, “India”), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “river, stream; Indus”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *síndʰuṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”). Compare Classical Persian هِنْدُو…