This is a list of words in the English language that originated in any of the languages of India.
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Hindi language
Sanskrit language
Tamil language
Urdu language
Others
- Atoll from Malayalam or Divehi - ring of coral enclosing a lagoon
- Bandicoot, from pandikoku (Telugu)
- Bungalow from Bungla (Hindustani) (lit. a house in the Bengal style) - a large house, typically with a sloping, tiled roof
- Calico, from Calicut, a town and district of Kerala, (Malayalam)
- Coir, from kayar (Malayalam), from kayaru (Tamil)
- Copra, from Khobra (Marathi), from koppara (Malayalam), from kopparai (Tamil)
- Dhole, from tOla (Kannada)
- Doolally, "mad, insane" from the town of Deolali, where British officers were said to develop a strange mental illness
- Jute (Bengali)
- Mongoose, from mungeesa (Telugu) or mungusi (Kannada)
- Pajamas (Hindustani)
- Polo (Balti)
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