Hindu (practitioner of India's indigenous religion) · Indian, inhabitant of the Indian subcontinent · infidel
çekim: çoğul هِنْدُوها
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian hndwk' (/hindūg/, “Indian”), demonym derived from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿduš, “India”), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu, “the Indus River”) or Proto-Iranian *sindʰu.
تیغ تو داند که چیست رمز و اشارات دین / طرفه بود هندویی وز عربی ترجمان
köken: Seemingly a back-formation from Aziatisch., which has been attested since the sixteenth century. Probably ultimately from Latin āsiāticus. Compare German Asiate, Swedish asiat and similar terms in other North Germanic languages.