different between indian vs bhajan

Romanian

From French indien

indian m (plural indieni)

From Spanish indiano (literally “inhabitant of India”), equivalent to Indien +? -an.

indian c

Indian, American Indian (A member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas)

Borrowed from Hindi ??? (bhajan).

bhajan (plural bhajans)

(music) A type of Indian devotional song.
- c.1885, A.L.O.E., The Wondrous Sickle:
  "No, there was never a school," said the child; "but the patwaris bibi lets us come to her of a morning, and teaches us bhajans and our letters, and when we learn well she sometimes gives us fruit."
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 396:
  Did I detenct Father's deep and rumbling baritone in the chorus which accompanied my wife's first bhajan of the evening?

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