"Indology" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɪnˈdɑləd͡ʒi/ [General-American], /ɪnˈdɒləd͡ʒi/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Indology.wav [Southern-England]
Etymology: From Indo- + -logy. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|Indo|logy}} Indo- + -logy Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Indology (uncountable)
  1. The academic study of the history, culture, and languages of India, the Indian subcontinent, and (often) of South Asia entirely. Tags: uncountable Synonyms: Indian studies, South Asian studies
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  2. The academic study of the history, culture, and languages of India, the Indian subcontinent, and (often) of South Asia entirely.
    The academic study of the history, culture, and languages of India (historical region) and India (modern unitary state).
    Tags: uncountable Synonyms: Indian studies, South Asian studies, Indian studies
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Indologian, Indological, Indologist Translations (academic study of India): 印度學 /印度学 (yìndùxué) (Chinese Mandarin), indologie [feminine] (Czech), indologi (Danish), indologia (Finnish), Indologie [feminine] (German), भारतविद्या (bhāratvidyā) [feminine] (Hindi), indologia [feminine] (Italian), indianistica [feminine] (Italian), үндітану (ünditanuw) (Kazakh), kaji India (Malay), indologi (Malay), இந்தியவியல் (intiyaviyal) (Tamil)
Disambiguation of 'academic study of India': 50 50

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.