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Sanskrit
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sanskrit sanskrít
English
Alternative forms
en Skt. abbreviation
academic:
en Sanskṛit Sanskrt Sanskṛt Samskrit Samskṛit Samskrt Samskṛt
en Saṇskrit Saṇskṛit Saṇskrt Saṇskṛt Saṃskrit Saṃskṛit Saṃskrt Saṃskṛt
en Saṅskrit Saṅskṛit Saṅskrt Saṅskṛt Saṁskrit Saṁskṛit Saṁskrt Saṁskṛt
en EME 1 en Sanscreet Samescretan
en LME 1 en Hanscrit Samscred Samscrit Sangskrit Sanschrit Sanschrite Sanscrit Sansskirrit Shamscrit Shanscreet Shanscrit Shanscrita Shanscritta Shanskreet Shanskrit Sungskrit Sunscrit Sunskrit
Etymology
en inc-hnd hi संस्कृत / ur سَنْسْکْرِت, itself a en sa सं॒स्कृ॒त perfected; prepared; constructed; refined 1. First use appears c. 1617 in the publications of Samuel Purchas.
Pronunciation
en /ˈsænskɹɪt/ UK,US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Sanskrit.wav Southern England
en /sənˈskrɪt̪/ Indic
Noun
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en Q11059A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism.
en Classical Sanskrit Vedic Sanskrit
en Prakrit
en 2004 w:Benjamin W. Fortson IV Indo-European Language and Culture Introduction 8 The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps no longer exists...- William Jones (philologist) Sir William Jones, 2 February, 1786, at the The Asiatic Society Asiatick Society.
Derived terms
en Classical Sanskrit Sanskritic Sanskritisation Sanskritise Sanskritised Sanskritism Sanskritist sanskritist Sanskritization Sanskritize Sanskritized Sanskritocentric Sanskritologist Vedic Sanskrit
Translations
language
Albanian: sq sanskritishte f
Amharic: am ሳንስክሪት
Arabic: ar سَنْسْكْرِيتِيّ m
Aragonese: an sanscrito m
Armenian: hy սանսկրիտ
Assamese: as সংস্কৃত
Asturian: ast sánscritu m
Basque: eu sanskrito
Belarusian: be санскры́т m
Bengali: bn সংস্কৃত
Bikol:
Central Bikol: bcl Sanskrito
Breton: br sañskriteg
Bulgarian: bg санскри́т m
Burmese: my သင်္သကရိုက်, my သက္ကဋ, my သက္ကတ
Catalan: ca sànscrit m
Cebuano: ceb pinulongang Sanskrito
Chinese: zh 梵語; zh 梵文
Cornish: kw Sanskrytek
Corsican: co sanscritu m
Czech: cs sanskrt m
Danish: da sanskrit c
Dhivehi: dv ސަންސްކްރިއްތް
Dutch: nl Sanskriet
Esperanto: eo Sanskrito
Estonian: et sanskriti keel
Faroese: fo sanskrit n
Finnish: fi sanskriitti
French: fr sanskrit m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Sanskryt
Galician: gl sánscrito m
Georgian: ka სანსკრიტი
German: de Sanskrit n; adjective de sanskritisch
Greek: el σανσκριτικά n-p
Gujarati: gu સંસ્કૃત
Hebrew: he סַנְסְקְרִיט sanskrít
Hindi: hi संस्कृत f
Hungarian: hu szanszkrit
Icelandic: is sanskrít n
Ido: io Sanskrito
Indonesian: id bahasa Sanskerta
Interlingua: ia sanscrito
Irish: ga Sanscrait
Italian: it sanscrito m
Japanese: ja サンスクリット sansukuritto, ja 梵語 ぼんご, bongo
Javanese: jv basa Sangskreta
Kannada: kn ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತ
Kapampangan: pam Sangaskulíta
Kashmiri: ks سَنٛسکرِت
Kazakh: kk санскрит
Khmer: km សំស្ក្រឹត
Korean: ko 산스크리트어, ko 범어(梵語)
Lao: lo ສັກຕະ
Latin: la lingua Sanscrita f
Latvian: lv sanskrits
Ligurian: lij lengua sànscrïa f
Limburgish: li Sanskriet
Lithuanian: lt sanskritas
Low German: nds Sanskrit
Macedonian: mk санскрит m
Malagasy: mg sanskrity
Malay: ms Sanskrit
Malayalam: ml സംസ്കൃതം
Manipuri:
Bishnupriya Manipuri: bpy সংস্কৃত
Marathi: mr संस्कृत
Mongolian: mn самгарди
Nahuatl: nah sanscritotlahtōlli
Nepali: ne संस्कृत
Newar: new संस्कृत
Norwegian: no sanskrit
Occitan: oc sanscrit m
Odia: or ସଂସ୍କୃତ
Oromo: om Saaniskiriit
Persian: fa سانسکریت sânskrit, fa سهاسکرت sahâskert
Polish: pl sanskryt m
Portuguese: pt sânscrito m
Prakrit: pra 𑀲𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀬 n
Punjabi: pa ਸੰਸਕ੍ਰਿਤ
Western Punjabi: pnb سنسکرت snskrt
Quechua: qu sanskrit simi
Romani:
Vlax Romani: rmy संस्कृतीकानी
Romanian: ro limba sanscrită f
Russian: ru санскри́т m
Samogitian: sgs sanskrita kalba f
Sanskrit: sa संस्कृत n, sa देवभाषा f
Scots: sco sanskrit
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh са̀нскртскӣ
Latin: sh sànskrtskī
Sicilian: scn sanscritu m, scn sànscritu m
Sindhi: sd سنسڪرت
Slovak: sk sanskrit m, sk sanskrt m
Slovene: sl sanskrt m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb sanskrit m
Upper Sorbian: hsb sanskrit m
Spanish: es sánscrito m
Sundanese: su basa Sangsakerta
Swahili: sw Kisanskrit
Swedish: sv sanskrit c
Tagalog: tl Sanskrito
Tamil: ta சமசுகிருதம், ta ஆரியம், ta வடமொழி
Telugu: te సంస్కృతము, te సంస్కృతం
Thai: th สันสกฤต
Tibetan: bo ལེགས་སྦྱར, bo ལེགས་སྦྱར་སྐད
Turkish: tr Sanskrit
Ukrainian: uk санскри́т m
Urdu: ur سنسکرت f sanskrit
Vietnamese: vi tiếng Phạn 㗂梵, vi Phạn ngữ 梵語
Waray-Waray: war Sinanskrit
Welsh: cy Sansgrit
Yiddish: yi סאַנסקריט
Adjective
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Relating to Sanskrit.
en Sanskritic
en Prakrit
1st Introduction xii Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; .
See also
en Prakrit
sa
Further reading
1 sa san
Anagrams
en aiknrsst ratskins
en Languages
Dutch
Etymology
Probably borrowed from a European language, ultimately from nl sa संस्कृत.
Pronunciation
nl /ˈsɑn.skrɪt/
nl San skrit
Proper noun
n
en Sanskrit from late 18th c.
nl Sanskriet
Related terms
nl Sanskritisch
German
de:
Etymology
de :der sa:संस्कृत
Probably borrowed from a European language, ultimately from de sa संस्कृत.
Pronunciation
de De-Sanskrit2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de De-Sanskrit.ogg
de De-Sanskrit3.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
n,-:s
Sanskrit
de Altindisch altindische Sprache
Derived terms
de sanskritisch
Further reading
de Languages
Turkish
Pronunciation
tr /sanskɾit/
Proper noun
Sanskrit language
Derived terms
tr Sanskritçe