East Indies

English

Alternative forms

• East-Indies (archaic)

Etymology 1

From east +‎ Indies, a qualification added to distinguish the original lands and islands of "India" (inclusive of areas from Subsaharan Africa to Indonesia and Japan) from the "West Indies".

Proper noun

East Indies pl (plural only)

1. Southeast Asia, especially Island Southeast Asia or Indonesia, but also including India, Indochina, Malaya and the Malay Archipelago, from the Philippines to Indonesia.

Derived terms

• Dutch East Indies
• Spanish East Indies
• East Indian
• East Indiaman

Related terms

• West Indies
• East India
• Indies

Translations

Southeast Asia

• Armenian: Օստ Ինդիա (Ōst India)
• Catalan: Índies Orientals f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 東印度／东印度 (Dōngyìndù)

• Danish: Ostindien
• Dutch: Oost-Indië n
• French: Indes orientales (fr) f pl
• Galician: Indias Orientais f pl
• German: Ostindien (de) n
• Irish: Na hIndiacha Thoir m pl
• Italian: Indie Orientali f pl
• Latin: India Orientalis f
• Portuguese: Índias Orientais f pl
• Romanian: Indiile Orientale f pl
• Russian: Ост-И́ндия (ru) (Ost-Índija)
• Spanish: Indias Orientales pl
• Swedish: Ostindien

Etymology 2

Noun

East Indies

1. plural of East Indie

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