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Hindu, Hindoo, n. and a.|ˈhɪnduː, hɪnˈduː|
[a. Pers. hindu, Urdū hindū, adj. and n., Indian; f. Pers. hind, India, Zend heñdu, Achæmenian hiñd'u = Skr. sindhu river, spec. the Indus, hence the region of the Indus, Sindh; gradually extended by Persians, Greeks, and Arabs, to northern India as a whole.]
A. n. An Aryan of Northern India (Hindustan), who retains the native religion (Hinduism), as distinguished from those who have embraced Islam; hence, any one who professes Hinduism; applied by Europeans in a wider sense, in accordance with the wider application of Hindustan.
1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. 74 The King of Cambaya, who was a Hindou, or Indian, that is, a Pagan. 1665Sir T. Roe's Voy. E. Ind. in P. della Valle's Trav. E. Ind. 374 The Inhabitants in general of Indostan were all anciently Gentiles, called in general Hindoes. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 113 At the House of an Hindu. 1804W. Tennant Ind. Recreat. (ed. 2) I. p. xviii, Intelligent natives of India, both Mussulmans and Hindoos. 1853Max Müller Chips (1880) I. iii. 64 The Hindu was the last to leave the central home of the Aryan family.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Hindus or their religion; Indian.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 80 According to the Hindu Custom. 1799Colebrooke in Life (1873) 432 In the vernacular dialects, or even in the Hindu language [i.e. Sanskrit]. 1804W. Tennant Ind. Recreat. (ed. 2) I. 36 They have in a great measure apostatised from the Hindoo system. 1858J. B. Norton Topics 30 All the Hindoo and Mahommedan troops in the king's army bound themselves by an oath to defend their sovereign.
Hence Hinduic, Hindooic |hɪnˈduːɪk| a. = prec. B.
1889R. B. Anderson tr. Rydberg's Teut. Mythol. 6 The Hindooic Aryans were possessors only of Kabulistan and Pendschab. 1893Mission. Herald (Boston) May 199 A thing which..not all my pundit-ship or Hinduic sastraship can give. |