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參見:indianIndián indián

英語

詞源

源自盎格魯-諾曼語 indien, 中古法語 indien,等同於Ind +‎ -ian。用於美洲原住民是早期探險家將其與印度人混淆[1]

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形容詞

Indian (比較級 more Indian最高級 most Indian)

  1. 印度(自14世紀)
    近義詞:IndicIndishDesi
  2. 東印度
  3. (棄用) 東方
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 10:
      The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre [] .
  4. 印第安人的,美洲原住民(自16世紀)
    • 1879, Friedrich August Flückiger & al., Pharmacographia..., p. 346:
      The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns.
    近義詞:AboriginalAmerindAmerindianFirst Nationsnative
  5. (加拿大美國食物)玉米為原料製作的 (自17世紀)
    Indian bread; Indian meal
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近義詞

  • Indish

派生詞

  • Amerindian (American Indian)
  • East Indian
  • Hindian (Asian Indian)
  • Indian almond
  • Indian apple
  • Indian burn
  • Indian carp
  • Indian cobra
  • Indian coral tree
  • Indian corn
  • Indian darter
  • Indian elephant
  • Indian fig
  • Indian file
  • Indian fire
  • Indian giving
  • Indian harp
  • Indian hawthorn
  • Indian hemp
  • Indian ink
  • Indian lemonade
  • Indian mahogany
  • Indian mulberry
  • Indian mustard
  • Indian myna
  • Indianness
  • Indian Ocean
  • Indian ox
  • Indian paintbrush
  • Indian pangolin
  • Indian peacock
  • Indian pipe
  • Indian plum
  • Indian poker
  • Indian potato
  • Indian pudding
  • Indian red
  • Indian relish
  • Indian rhinoceros
  • Indian rhubarb
  • Indian River
  • Indian Runner
  • Indian sandalwood
  • Indian sign
  • Indian strawberry
  • Indian style
  • Indian summer
  • Indian sunburn
  • Indian wheat
  • Indian wrestling
  • Indian yellow
  • too many chiefs and not enough Indians
  • West Indian
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相關詞彙

  • Indo-

名詞

Indian (可數不可數,複數 Indians)

  1. 印度(自13世紀)
  2. 印第安人美洲原住民(一般不包括阿拉斯加原住民) (自16世紀)
    • 1819-1820,Washington Irving,The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:
      We stigmatize the Indians, also, as cowardly and treacherous, because they use stratagem in warfare in preference to open force; but in this they are fully justified by their rude code of honor.
      (請為本引文添加中文翻譯
    • 2004, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork
      With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!
  3. (罕用歷史) 大洋洲原住民 (自18世紀)
  4. (不可數) 印度菜
  5. (英國口語) 印度餐館的菜品 (自20世紀)
    We're going out tonight for an Indian.
    今晚我們去印度餐館吃飯。
  6. (英國口語) 印度餐館
    We're going down the Indian for a curry - wanna join us?
    我們要去印度餐館吃咖喱——你也一起來嗎?
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近義詞

專有名詞

Indian

  1. (非標準) 美洲原住民的語言
  2. (非標準罕用) 印度的語言(尤其指印地語
    • 1968 Anne Rider, A hilltop in hazard, page 51:
      [They said] 'Mutton can speak Indian', 'Mutton can see Kanchinjunga out of his bedroom window'[.]

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