Hindustan

• Hindoostan (archaic)

Borrowed from Hindustani ہِنْدُوسْتان (hindūstān) / हिंदुस्तान (hindustān), itself from Classical Persian هِنْدُوسْتَان (hindūstān, “Indian subcontinent”).

Hindustan

1. (colloquial) The entire country of India.
2. (dated) The entire region of the Indian subcontinent.
   • [1889 January], Rudyard Kipling, “(please specify the page)”, in Under the Deodars (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 4), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: A[rthur] H[enry] Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC:

     “The Government of Her Majesty the Queen, Empress of India […] says the movement is ‘for the remission of tax, the advancement of Hindustan, and the strengthening of the British Government.’

   • 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC:

     He did not wish to steal anything. He only desired to know what to steal, and, incidentally, how to get away when he had stolen it. He thanked all the Gods of Hindustan, and Herbert Spencer, that there remained some valuables to steal.

   • 1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter 15, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu‎:

     There, floor piled upon floor above the chattering throngs, were these less gregarious units, each something of a mystery to his fellow-guests, each in his separate cell; and each as remote from real human companionship as if that cell were fashioned, not in the bricks of London, but in the rocks of Hindustan!

3. (obsolete) The northern (properly north central) region of India.

• Hindustani
• Hindiyyah

• Bharat
• Hinduland

Borrowed from Persian هندوستان (hendustân).

• IPA^(key): /xinˈdus.tan/

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• Rhymes: -ustan
• Syllabification: Hin‧dus‧tan

Hindustan m inan

1. Hindustan, an alternative name for India (a country in Asia)

   Synonym: Indie

• Hindustan in Polish dictionaries at PWN