भारत bhārat

Hindi is also shown in Latin characters, using an adapted form of ISO 15919 transliteration.

How to read the transliteration

This site uses transliteration based on ISO 15919, with a few adaptations to make reading easier: h is added after c, ś and ṣ, and i after the vowel r̥. These adaptations bring it closer to the Hunterian system used in India while retaining the distinctive marks of ISO 15919.

Adaptations used on this site
ISO 15919	On this site
c	ch
ś	śh
ṣ	ṣh
r̥	r̥i

A few reading pointers:

ā, ī, ū: the line above the letter indicates a long vowel.
ṭ, ḍ, ṇ: the dot below distinguishes retroflex consonants from t, d, n.
A tilde above a vowel indicates nasalisation.

sa · n. · m.

Earlier definition

Definition

The ancient name of India (so called because it was the patrimony of Bharat, son of Dushyant, who is said to have been the first monarch of all India)

Usual translation

Bharat

Origin of the definition

The ancient name of India (enlightened, prosperous).

भारत bhārata bha:rat (nm) India; ~माता mother India: ~मूलक of Indian origin; ~रत्न the highest national honour awarded by the Govt. of India; ~वर्ष India; the Indian sub-continent; ~वर्षीय Indian; ~वासी an Indian, a native of India; ~विद् an Indologist; ~विघा Indology; -संतान a son of mother India.

S بهارت भारत bhārat, adj. & s.m. Descended from Bharat; — a descendant of Bharat; the great epic of the Hindūs (containing the account of Yudhisthir's war, and usually called the Mahā-bhārat); name of India Proper (so called because it was the patrimony of Bharat, son of Dushyant, who is said to have been the first monarch of all India): — bhārat-khanḍ, s.m. = bharat-khanḍ, q.v.s.v bharat: — bhārat-varsha, s.m. India Proper: — bhārat-varshī, adj. Indian.