meaning of the words hindustan & bharat

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namaskar mitra,

our country is known as Bharat, Hindustan & India, their meanings briefly are -

1. Bharat in Hindi meaning 'Land of Knowledge'.

 

2. Hindustan in Urdu meaning 'Indo-Pakistan sub-continent, Urdu speaking areas

of the sub-continent'. This is as per Standard 20th Century Dictionary, Urdu

into English, published by Educational Publishing House New Delhi, published

1985, refer pg 678. So when we use the word Hindustan for India we exclude all

those parts of India where Urdu is not spoken for eg South India where Urdu is

not widely spoken except Hyderabad region.

 

3. India in English, I quote Troy Harris 'The Modern term "India" is simply

ancient Greek, though pronounced a little differently than in English, of

course. It is an early Hellenism whereby the Persian ‘H’ was changed to ‘I.’

This further lends knowledge of the ancient Greek indikos and Latin indicus,

equivalent adjectives meaning "Indian, pertaining to India, having to do with

India," etc. Similarly, the botanical term for Indian hemp is Cannibis indica.

Sindhu thus evolved into Old Persian ‘hinduš’ and was consequently borrowed from

Persian into Greek as Indos. Greek thereafter formed the name of the country

from this stem ‘ind-’ with the suffix ‘-ia,’ a typical method of forming the

names of countries in Greek. Our name for the river, ‘Indus,’ is the Latin form

of the Greek name and isn’t original.'

comments are welcome.

cheers om sanjeev

 

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