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10 Words From Hindi & Urdu
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English words from India
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- anaconda - Sinhalese henakandaya perhaps ? Dravidian
- arhat - Sanskrit arhat ‘deserving’
- ashram - Sanskrit asrama ‘hermitage’
- Atman - Sanskrit atman ‘essence’
- Ayurvedic - Sanskrit ayur-veda ‘science of life or medicine’
- baboo - Hindi babu ‘father’
- Bahasa (as in Bahasa Indonesia) - Malay ? Sanskrit bhasa ‘language’
- bandanna - Portuguese ? Hindi bandhnu ‘tie-dyeing’
- bangle - Hindi ba?gri ‘glass bracelet’
- basmati - Hindi basmati ‘fragrant’
- begum - Urdu begam ? Eastern Turkish bigim ‘princess’
- beryl - Greek ? Dravidian Velur, a toponym
- betel - Portuguese ? Malayalam ve??ila
- bhang - Urdu bhang ? Sanskrit bhanga ‘hemp’
- birka - Hindi burqa ? Arabic
- biryani - Hindi ? Persian biryan ‘fried, roasted’
- blighty- Hindi bilayati ‘foreign’ ? Arabic wilayat ‘district’ ? wilaya ‘rule’
- bonze - Japanese bonso ? Mandarin fánseng ‘Buddhist monk’; fán ? Sanskrit brahman.as ‘Brahmin’
- bo (tree) - Sinhalese bo ? Sanskrit bodhi- ‘perfect knowledge’
- Bodhisattva - Sanskit bodhi ‘perfect knowledge’ + sattva ‘being’
- bosh (fiddle) - Romani bosh- ‘crow, fiddle’ ? Sanskrit vas- ‘bellow’
- Brahmin - Sanskrit brahman.as ? brahman ‘praise, worship’
- Buddha - Sanskrit buddha ‘enlightened’ ? budh ‘awake, perceive’
- bund - Hindi band ? Persian
- bungalow - Gujarati bangalo ? Hindi bangla ‘Bengali’’
- candy - short for ‘sugar candy’ ? ‘sugar’ + Arabic qandi ‘candied’ ? qand ‘cane sugar’ ? Dravidian, cf. Tamil kan.?u
- carambola - Marathi karanbal
- cash (type of coin) - Tamil kacu ? Sanskrit karša, a measure of weight
- catamaran - Tamil katta-maram ‘tied wood’
- chakra - Sanskrit chakra (cognate to ‘wheel’!)
- cheetah - Hindi cita ? Sanskrit citrakaya ‘speckled-body’
- cheroot - French ? Tamil shurutti ‘roll’
- China - Sanskrit China ? (probably) Mandarin Qín dynasty
- china (ware) - Persian chini— the first (17th century) citations in English are apt to be spelled chiney, cheney— ? Sanskrit China (q.v.)
- chintz - Hindi chin.t ? Sanskrit citra ‘many-colored’
- chit - Hindi chi??ha ‘pass’ ? Sanksrit citra ‘many-colored’
- chop - Hindi chhap ‘imprint’
- chukker - Hindi chakkar ‘circle’ ? Sanskrit chakra
- chutney - Hindi cha?ni
- congee - Tamil kañji
- coolie - Hindi kuli (perhaps the name of a tribe)
- copra - Malayalam koppara ? Hindi khoppra ‘coconut’
- corundum - Tamil kurundam ? Sanskrit kuruvinda ‘ruby’
- cosh - Romani kosh ‘stick, skewer’
- cot - Hindi khat ‘couch, hammock’
- cowrie - Hindi kauri ? Sanskrit kaparda
- cummerbund - Urdu kamar-band ‘loin-band’
- curry - Tamil kari ‘relish for rice’
- cushy - Hindi khush ‘pleasant’ ? Persian
- dacoit - Hindi dakait, from daka ‘gang robbery’ ? Sanskrit dashtaka ‘crowded’
- dal - Hindi dal ‘split pulse’
- dharma - Sanksrit dharma ‘decree, custom’
- dhoti - Hindi dhoti
- dinghy - Hindi ?in.gi ‘small boat’
- dungaree - Hindi dungri, a toponym
- eka- (chemical prefix) - Sanksrit eka ‘one’
- gadjo - Romani
- ganja - Hindi ganjha
- ghat - Hindi ghat ‘quay’
- ghee - Hindi ghi ? Sanskrit ghr.ta ‘sprinkling’
- ginger - Sanskrit sr.ñ-gaveram ‘horn-body’
- godown - Malay gadong ?Telugu gidangi ‘place where goods lie’
- Gondwanaland - Sanskrit gondavana, name of a forest
- guar (gum) - Hindi guar
- gunny (sack) ? Hindi goni ? Sanskrit gon.i
- guru - Hindi guru ‘venerable one’ ? Sanskrit guruh ‘heavy, venerable’
- gymkhana - Hindi gend-khana ‘ball-house’
- Hare Krishna - Hindi hare ‘oh God!’ + ‘Krishna’
- harijan - Sanksrit harijana = Hari ‘Vishnu’ + -jana ‘person’
- hatha yoga - Sanksrit hatha ‘force, violence’ + yoga
- Himalayas - Sanskrit hima ‘snow’ + alaya ‘dwelling
- Hindi - Hindi Hindi ‘Indian’ ? Persian hind; cf. India
- Hindu - Hindi Hindu ‘an Indian’ ? Persian hind; cf. India
- hookah - Urdu ? Arabic huqqah ‘vase, bottle’
- howdah - Urdu haudah ? Arabic haudaj
- India - Greek Indía ? Old Persian hiñd’u ? Sanskrit sindhu ‘(Indus) river’
- indigo - Portuguese ? Greek indikón ‘of India’, cf. India
- juggernaut - Hindi Jagannath ? Sanskrit Jagannatha ‘lord of the world’
- jungle - Hindi jangal ‘wasteland’ ? Sanskrit jangala ‘desert’
- jute - Bengali jho?o ? Sanskrit ju?a
- Kama Sutra - Sanksrit kama ‘love’ + sutra
- khalsa - Urdu khaliçah ? Arabic khaliç ‘pure, real’
- Kshatriya - Sanksrit kshatriya ? kshatra ‘rule, authority’
- lacquer - Hindi lakh ‘resin’
- lakh - Hindi lakh
- lama - Tibetan blama
- lascar - Portuguese ? Urdu lashkar ‘army
- lingam - Sanskrit li?ga ‘distinctive mark, penis’
- loot - Hindi lu? ? Sanskrit loptra ‘booty’
- maharajah - Hindi maharaja ‘great king’; maha is cognate to Greek mega-
- mahatma - Sanksrit mahatman ‘great-souled’
- mahout - Hindi mahaut
- mandarin - Hindi mantri ‘counsellor’
- mango - Portuguese ? Malay ma?ga ? Tamil mankay ‘mango fruit’
- mantra - Sanskrit mantra ‘prayer’
- maya - Sanskrit maya
- mongoose - Marathi mangus ? Telugu mangisu
- mullah - Urdu mulla ? Arabic mawla
- musk - Latin ? Greek ? Sanskrit muska ‘scrotum’
- nabob - French ?Urdu nawwab ‘deputy governor’
- namaste - Hindi ? Sanskrit námas ‘bowing’ + te dative of ‘you’
- nan - Hindi nan
- narc - Romani nak ‘nose’
- nard - Latin ? Greek ? Sanskrit nalada
- orange - French ? Spanish ? Arabic naranj ? Sanskrit naranga
- pagoda - Portuguese ? Dravidian ? Sanskrit bhagavati ‘holy’
- pajamas - Urdu payjamah ? Persian pay ‘foot’ + jamah ‘garment’
- pal - Romani ? Sanskrit bhratar- ‘brother’
- palanquin - Portuguese ? Javanese pelangki ? Sanskrit palyanka ‘bed’
- pariah - Tamil paraiyar, a caste ? parai ‘drum’
- patchouli - Tamil paccilai ‘green leaf’
- pepper - Latin ? Sanskrit pippali ‘berry’
- polo - Balti polo
- Prakrit - Sanskrit prakrta ‘natural, vulgar’
- punch - perhaps from Hindi panch ‘five’; OED finds it unlikely
- pundit - Hindi pan?it ? Sanskrit pan?ita ‘learned’ ? Telugu pan.?a ‘wisdom’
- purdah - Urdu pardah ‘veil, curtain’
- puttee - Hindi patti ‘band(age)’ ? Sanskrit patta ‘bandage’
- raga - Sanskrit raga ‘color, passion, melody’
- raj - Hindi raj ‘realm’
- rajah - Hindi raja ‘king’ ? Sanskrit rajan (cognate to Latin rex)
- rakshasa - Sanskrit rakshasa ‘demon’ ? rakshas ‘to be guarded against’
- rupee - Hindi rupaiya ? Sanskrit rupya ‘wrought silver’
- sadhu - Sanskrit sadhu ‘holy man’
- sahib - Urdu ? Arabic çahib ‘friend’
- sandhi - Sanskrit samdhi ‘junction’
- samosa - Hindi samosa
- sandalwood - Latin ? Greek ? Sanskrit candanah.
- Sanskrit - Sanskrit samskrta ‘perfected, well-formed’
- sari - Hindi sar.i ? Sanskrit sa?i ‘cloth’
- sarong - Malay sarung ? Sanksrit saranga ‘variegated’
- satyagraha - Sanskrit satya ‘truth’ + graha ‘pertinacity’
- sepoy - Urdu sipahi ‘horseman’ ? Persian sipah ‘army’
- shaman - Russian ? Tungusic ? Sanskrit sraman.ás ‘ascetic’
- shampoo - Hindi champo ‘press, massage’
- shawl - French ? Urdu ? Persian shal
- sherpa - Tibetan sharpa ‘easterner’
- shri - Sanskrit sri ‘Lakshmi’
- shrub (drink) - Urdu ? Arabic shurb ‘beverage’ ? shariba ‘drink’
- sitar - Hindi sitar ‘three-stringed’
- soma (Vedic liquor) - Sanskrit soma
- stupa - Sanskrit stupa ‘tuft of hair’
- Sudra - Sanskrit sudra
- sutra - Sanskrit sutra ‘thread, string’
- sugar - French ? Arabic ? Persian ? Sanskrit sarkara ‘gravel, sugar’
- suttee - Sanskrit sati ‘virtuous woman’
- swami - Hindi svami ‘master’ ? Sanskrit svamin
- swastika - Sanksrit svastika ? Sanskrit svasti ‘well-being’
- tandoor - Urdu tandur ? Turkish tandir ? Arabic tannur ‘oven’
- tank - possibly Gujarati tankh 'water reservoir'
- tantra - Sanskrit tantra ‘loom, system, doctrine’
- teak - Malayalam tekka
- thug - Hindi ?hag ? Sanskrit sthaga ‘robber’
- tikka - Hindi tikka
- toddy - Hindi tar.i ‘palm sap’ ? Sanskrit tala ? Dravidian
- tom-tom - Hindi ?am?am (imitative)
- Upanishad - Sanskrit upa ‘near’ + nishad ‘lie down’
- veda - Sanskrit veda ‘knowledge’ (cognate to ‘wit’)
- veranda - Hindi varanda ? Portuguese
- vindaloo - Hindi ? Portuguese vin d'alho ‘wine with garlic’
- wallah - Hindi -wala, a nominalizer
- yak - Tibetan ?yag
- yeti - Tibetan yeh-teh ‘little manlike animal’
- yoga - Hindi ? Sanskrit yoga ‘union’
- yogi - Hindi yogi ? Sanskrit yogin
- yoni - Sanskrit yoni ‘abode, womb’
- Zen - Japanese ? Mandarin chán(nà) ‘meditation’ ? Sanskrit dhyana
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Erstellt: 2020-06