In lang=en terms the difference between indian and bhajan
is that
indian is 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 while
bhajan is a type of Indian devotional song.
As nouns the difference between indian and bhajan
is that
indian is a person from India while
bhajan is a type of Indian devotional song.
As an adjective Indian
is of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.
As a proper noun Indian
is any language spoken by Indians.
indian English
Adjective
( -)
Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.
(obsolete) Eastern; Oriental.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , volume 10:
- The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre .
(dated) Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
(North America) Of foods: made with Indian corn or maize.
- Indian''' bread; '''Indian meal
(chess) 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.
Synonyms
* (of or or relating to India or its people) (l), (l)
* (of or related to indigenous peoples of the Americas) (l), (l), (l) (chiefly Canadian), (l)
Derived terms
* Amerindian (American Indian)
* Hindian (Asian Indian)
* Indian clover
* Indian elephant
* Indian file
* Indian giving
* Indian Ocean
* Indian red
* Indian sign
* Indian style
* Indian sunburn
* Indian tea
* too many chiefs and not enough Indians
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Related terms
* Indo-
Noun
( en noun)
A person from India.
A member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, or Yupik).
*
(UK, colloquial) A meal at (or taken away from) an Indian restaurant.
- We're going out tonight for an Indian .
Synonyms
* (person from India) Asian Indian
* (indigenous person of the Americas) Amerindian, Native American, Red Indian
* (indigenous person of the Americas) Native Canadian, First Nations person
* See also
Proper noun
( en proper noun)
(nonstandard) Any language spoken by Indians.
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bhajan Noun
( en noun)
(music) A type of Indian devotional song.
*c.1885 , A.L.O.E., The Wondrous Sickle :
*:"No, there was never a school," said the child; "but the patwaris bibi lets us come to her of a morning, and teaches us bhajans and our letters, and when we learn well she sometimes gives us fruit."
*1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 396:
*:Did I detenct Father's deep and rumbling baritone in the chorus which accompanied my wife's first bhajan of the evening?
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