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indic

indic adjective: of or relating to indium.

Adjective (1)

indic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to indium.
    • indic oxide

Proper noun capitalized: Indic

Indic

  1. A branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern descendants such as Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi.
    • Second, it is the only group that directly attests to a period of common development between two branches of the Indo-European family, namely, Indic and Iranian.1983, Philip Baldi, An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 51
    • Similar transfers in Indic are fewer in number owing to the early loss of the aor.: for example, the pres. cayate 'notices' (aoristic root ci-, PIE *kʷey) is in origin the subj. of root aorist ácet, and displaces the earlier redup. Pres cikéṣi (AV), imperf. áciket (RV).2008 November 13, Andrew L Sihler, New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    Indo-Aryan

Adjective (2) capitalized: Indic

Indic (comparative more Indic, superlative most Indic)

  1. Relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages which are its descendants.
  2. Relating to the Brahmic scripts.
  3. Pertaining to India or its people, culture and languages; Indian.
    • Clearly, men like ʿAin al-Mulk and Aravit Rama Raja could not have migrated successfully between the predominantly Islamicate world of Bijapur and Golconda and the more Indic world of Vijayanagara had they not been proficient in Telugu or Kannada as well as in Dakhni or Persian.2003, Sushil Mittal, Surprising Bedfellows: Hindus and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern India, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 38
    • Quite different in style from the red stone torso, it also shows links to later Indic art (Fig. 2.5). Found at Mohenjo-Daro in one of the later strata, this small image is probably of a date late in the history of the site.2014 January 1, Susan L. Huntington, John C. Huntington, The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, Motilal Banarsidass, →ISBN, page 16

indic meaning in Urdu

indic in Urdu

ہندی, ہندوستانی, ہندوی

Synonyms of indic

Forms of indic

comparativemore Indic
superlativemost Indic

Origin of indic

From Latin indicus from Ancient Greek ἰνδικός (indikós), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of indigo.

Words formed from indic

Phrases with indic

Questions about indic

What does indic mean?
Indic means of or relating to indium.
What is indic in Urdu?
Indic in Urdu is ہندی, ہندوستانی, ہندوی. See Indic meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is indic?
Indic can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near indic in the dictionary

  1. Indianoplace
  2. indians
  3. indiarubber
  4. indiarubbers
  5. Indias
  6. indic
  7. Indic script
  8. Indic scripts
  9. indic.
  10. indica
  11. indicability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: indic (page history and authors); Indic (page history and authors); indic (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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