Indophobic
Indophobic adjective: exhibiting or relating to Indophobia.
Adjective
Indophobic (not comparable)
- Exhibiting or relating to Indophobia.
- The extreme Indophobic discomfort with the connection of Sanskrit with Greek and Latin was exemplified by the conviction of the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart, who, without knowing a word of the language, proposed that Sanskrit was not a cognate of Greek, it was Greek.2001, Edwin Bryant, The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- Even the Hindus have more knowledge than us in some matters of astronomy and mathematics'—a virtually unprecedented admission for the often Indophobic Abdul Lateef.2002, William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India, Penguin, →ISBN, page 95
Origin of Indophobic
From Indo- + -phobic.
Questions about Indophobic
- What does Indophobic mean?
- Indophobic means exhibiting or relating to Indophobia.
- What part of speech is Indophobic?
- Indophobic is an adjective.
Words near Indophobic in the dictionary
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