Indisch

See also: indisch

Dutch

Etymology

From Indië +‎ -isch.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɪn.dis/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: In‧disch

Adjective

Indisch (comparative Indischer, superlative meest Indisch)

  1. (Netherlands) Pertaining to the East Indies, especially the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia).
  2. (Belgium) Indian; pertaining to India.
    Synonym: Indiaas

Usage notes

In the Netherlands, when speaking of people from the Dutch East Indies, Indisch technically refers to all people somehow related to the former colony (including totoks, Chinese Indonesians and so on), but it is mostly used for and by Indo-Europeans or Indo's. That is why for example Moluccan people in the Netherlands typically do not use Indisch to describe themselves.

Inflection
Inflection of Indisch
uninflected Indisch
inflected Indische
comparative Indischer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial IndischIndischerhet meest Indisch
het meest Indische
indefinite m./f. sing. IndischeIndischeremeest Indische
n. sing. IndischIndischermeest Indische
plural IndischeIndischeremeest Indische
definite IndischeIndischeremeest Indische
partitive IndischIndischers—

Derived terms

See also

Proper noun

Indisch n (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) Indic; the Indo-Aryan language family
    Synonym: Indo-Arisch

Derived terms

German

Proper noun

Indisch n (proper noun, language name, genitive Indisch or Indischs, alternative nominative (used with the definite article) Indische, alternative genitive Indischen, no plural)

  1. (informal) any Indian language
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