Talk:Etymology of Sindh (Pakistan/India): Difference between revisions

The Pakistani province of '''[[Sindh]]''' and the people inhabiting the region had been designated after the river known in Ancient times as the Sindhus River, now also known by Indus River. In Sanskrit, Sindhu means "river, stream". However, the importance of the river and close phonetically resemblance in nomenclature would make one consider Sindhu as the probable origin of the name of Sindh. Later on phonetically changes transformed Sindhu into Hindu in Old Persian. The [[Ancient Greeks]] of Macedon who conquered Sindh Valley region of modern Pakistan in 325 BC under the command of [[Alexander the Great]] ''“(Sikandar-e-Azam)”'' rendered it as Indu, or Indós, hence the modern '''[[Indus]]''', when the British colonists arrived and conquered Southern Asia, in the 17th Century AD as part of their [[British Raj|Indian Imperial Empire]] of [[South Asia]]; they expanded the term and applied the name to the entire region of South Asia and called it '''“[[India]]”''' by following that regional example and formally applied the Greek name for Sindh under her entire domain of the Raj respectively. The ancient Iranians referred to everything east of the river Indus as Hind from the word Sind respectively. [[Franklin Southworth|Southworth]] suggests that the name ''Sindhu'' is in turn derived from ''Cintu'', a [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian]] word for [[Date palm]], a tree commonly found in Sindh.