天竺

Etymology 1
First recorded use in the , compiled in the 5th century. Itself a transcription of, hypocoristic of. Compare.

Proper noun

 * 1)   India

Etymology 2
Per 《北京市顺义县地名志》:

In Liao dynasty, there is a place named 天柱莊:
 * https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%81%BC%E5%8F%B2/%E5%8D%B740: 順州，歸化軍，中，刺史. ……城東北有華林、天柱二莊，遼建涼殿，春賞花，夏納涼.

In Qing dynasty, the village is renamed to 天竺, since they have similar pronunciation.

Proper noun

 * 1)   an area in, Beijing, China

Etymology 1
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From, a transcription from either of the following: First mentioned in the, in volume 88, the.
 * *Hind-uka ("people living beyond the Indus") an alternative of *Hinduš (“Indus, people of the Indus”)

Proper noun

 * 1)  India

Prefix

 * 1) foreign or exotic
 * 2) overly spicy or hot

Usage notes
The prefix senses appear to have arisen after European traders arrived in Japan, by way of India.

Derived terms

 * : an “Indian hollyhock or mallow” → a geranium
 * : “Indian weaving” → a kind of thick woven cloth featuring various designs of birds, people, and other motifs
 * : an “Indian flower” → alternate for
 * : “Indian music” → those pieces of originating from India
 * : an “Indian shark” → a wobbegong, a shark of family
 * : an “Indian sea bream” → a kind of cardinalfish,
 * : “Indian eggplant” → alternate for : the devil's trumpet or ,
 * : an “Indian rat” → a guinea pig, a cavy
 * : “Indian sauce” → a kind of spicy uncooked miso
 * : “Indian linden tree” → the bodhi tree,
 * : an “Indian peony” → a dahlia
 * : “Indian bean” → alternate for : the velvet bean,
 * : “Indian protector, Indian charm” → alternate for, the fasciculatum variety of (chili pepper)
 * : “Indian miso” → spicy miso
 * : “Indian cotton” → thickly woven cotton sheeting
 * : “Indian style” → a style of Buddhist temple architecture imported from the Southern Song Dynasty during the Kamakura period

Etymology 2
By extension from the character (“sky, heavens”), and possibly by association with the Himalayas.

Noun

 * 1) the sky, the heavens
 * 2) a high place, the top of something, a summit

Derived terms

 * : “sky bean” → alternate for : the broad bean or fava bean,
 * : a vagrant, a wanderer