天竺
Meanings
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- 1.the Indian subcontinent (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context)
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- 1.(archaic) India
- 2.Tianzhu Area (an area in Shunyi District, Beijing, China)
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Etymology
First recorded use in the Book of Later Han, compiled in the 5th century. Itself a transcription of Middle Persian hndwk' (Hindūg, “Indian”) (in turn, derived from hnd (Hind, “India”), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢 (hiⁿdu-, “India”), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “river, stream; Indus”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *síndʰuṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”)) (Pulleyblank, 1962, Coblin, 1983), hypocoristic of 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿduš, “people living beyond the Indus”). Compare 身毒 (Juāndú).
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