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词源
源自盎格鲁-诺曼语 indien, 中古法语 indien，等同于Ind + -ian。用于美洲原住民是早期探险家将其与印度人混淆[1]。
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形容词
Indian（比较级 more Indian，最高级 most Indian）
- 印度的 [自14世纪]
- 近义词： Indic、Indish、Desi
- 东印度的
- (弃用) 东方的
- 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 […] .
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 10:
- 印第安人的，美洲原住民的 [自16世纪]
- 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.
- 近义词： Aboriginal、Amerind、Amerindian、First Nations、native
- 1879, Friedrich August Flückiger & al., Pharmacographia..., p. 346:
- (加拿大、美国, 食物) 以玉米为原料制作的 [自17世纪]
- Indian bread; Indian meal
近义词
- Indish 〈古〉
派生词
- 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
相关词汇
- Indo-
名词
Indian（复数 Indians）
- 印度人 [自13世纪]
- 印第安人，美洲原住民（一般不包括阿拉斯加原住民） [自16世纪]
- 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.
- （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
- 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!
- (现在罕用, 历史) 大洋洲原住民 [自18世纪]
- (不可数) 印度菜
- (英国, 口语) 印度餐馆的菜品 [自20世纪]
- We're going out tonight for an Indian.
- 今晚我们去印度餐馆吃饭。
- (英国, 口语) 印度餐馆
- We're going down the Indian for a curry - wanna join us?
- 我们要去印度餐馆吃咖喱——你也一起来吗？
近义词
- (印度人)： Asian Indian
- (印第安人)： American Indian, Amerindian, Amerind, Native American, Red Indian, First Nations person
专有名词
Indian
- (非标准) 美洲原住民的语言
- (非标准, 罕用) 印度的语言（尤其指印地语）
- 1968 Anne Rider, A hilltop in hazard, page 51:
- [They said] 'Mutton can speak Indian', 'Mutton can see Kanchinjunga out of his bedroom window'[.]
- 1968 Anne Rider, A hilltop in hazard, page 51:
参考资料
因特语
发音
形容词
Indian
