indian

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.

   “An IAF representative told an Indian parliamentary committee that due to the Ukraine war a “major delivery” from Moscow “is not going to take place.””

2. sıfat Eastern; Oriental.

   “The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre […].”

3. sıfat Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

   “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.”

4. sıfat Made with Indian corn or maize.

   “Indian bread”

5. sıfat Designating any of various chess openings now characterised by black's attempt to control the board through knights and fianchettoed bishops rather than with a central pawn advance.
6. isim A person from India.

   “[A]ll personnel are to be hereby ordered to refer to her as a "Kumiho," and not a "Kitsune." Personnel asking what the difference is are to be reminded of the difference between a Cherokee Indian and a New Delhi Indian.”

7. isim An American Indian, a member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, and Yupik).

   “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.”

8. isim An indigenous inhabitant of Australia, New Zealand or the Pacific islands.
9. isim Ellipsis of Indian cuisine.

   “Have you ever tried Indian?”

10. isim Ellipsis of Indian meal (“meal consisting of Indian cuisine”).

    “We're going out tonight for an Indian.”

11. isim Ellipsis of Indian restaurant (“restaurant serving Indian cuisine”).

    “We're going down to the Indian for a curry—wanna join us?”

12. isim Ellipsis of Mardi Gras Indian.
13. isim A kind of marble (spherical toy) with colored bands on an opaque black base.
14. özel isim Any of the (unrelated) languages spoken by American Indians.
15. özel isim Any language spoken by natives of India, especially Hindi.

    “[They said] 'Mutton can speak Indian', 'Mutton can see Kanchinjunga out of his bedroom window'[.]”

16. isim Alternative letter-case form of Indian (“indigene”).
17. sıfat Alternative letter-case form of Indian (“indigenous”).