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Devanagari
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devanagari devanágari Dēvanāgarī
English
thumb|The Word 'Devanāgarī' written in Devanagari script.
thumb|Devanagari script (vowels top, consonants bottom) in the Chandas (typeface) Chandas font.
Etymology
en sa देवनागरी, compound of sa दे॒व divine + sa नग॑र॒ town; city.
Pronunciation
en /ˌdeɪvəˈnɑːɡ(ə)ɹɪ/ /ˌdɛvəˈnɑːɡ(ə)ɹɪ/ UK
en /ˌdeɪvəˈnɑɡəɹi/ US
en en-us-Devanagari.ogg US
Adjective
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Of the Devanagari script or of a Devanagari alphabet.
en 2018 James Lambert Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles World Englishes 37 251 The etymologies gave words from Hindustani in the Devanagari script accompanied by transliterations in parentheses.
Derived terms
en Devanagari numeral
Proper noun
An abugida script used to write many languages originating in India and Nepal, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Maithili, Bhili, Konkani, Bhojpuri, and Nepali.
en Nagari<q:historical>
Related terms
en Eastern Nagari Nandinagari
Translations
abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
Afrikaans: af Dewanagari, af Devanagari
Arabic: ar دِيفَانَاجَارِي m difanagarī, ar دِيفَانَاجَارِي m difanajarī, ar دِيفَانَاغَارِي m difanaḡarī, ar دِيفَانَاغَارِي m difanagarī
Armenian: hy դևանագարի
Assamese: as দেৱনাগৰী
Asturian: ast devanágari
Bengali: bn দেবনাগরী
Burmese: my ဒေဝနာဂရီ, my နာဂရီ, my ဒေဝနာဂရီအက္ခရာ, my နာဂရီအက္ခရာ
Catalan: ca devanagari m, ca devanàgari m
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 天城文
Mandarin: cmn 天城文
Czech: cs dévanágarí
Esperanto: eo devanagario
Estonian: et devanaagari
Finnish: fi devanagari
French: fr dévanagari f m, fr devanagari f m
Galician: gl devanāgarī m
Georgian: ka დევანაგარი
German: de Devanagari f, de Dewanagari f
Greek: el ντεβανάγκαρι n
Gujarati: gu દેવનાગરી
Hebrew: he דֶּוַונַאגַּרִי m devanagarí
Hindi: hi देवनागरी f, hi नागरी f, hi नागर m
Hungarian: hu dévanágari írás
Indonesian: id dewanagari
Irish: ga Déiveanágraí m
Italian: it devanagari f m
Japanese: ja デーヴァナーガリー dēvanāgarī
Kannada: kn ದೇವನಾಗರಿ
Khmer: km ទេវនាគរី
Korean: ko 데바나가리
Latvian: lv dēvanāgarī f, lv dievanāgarī f
Lithuanian: lt devanagari f
Malayalam: ml ദേവനാഗരി
Marathi: mr देवनागरी f
Nepali: ne देवनागरी
Pali: pi devanāgarī
Pashto: ps دېوناگري
Persian: fa دوناگری devanâgari, fa دیواناگری dêvânâgari
Polish: pl dewanagari n
Portuguese: pt devanágari m
Punjabi: pa ਦੇਵਨਾਗਰੀ
Romani: rmy devnagrī, rmy devǎnagǎrī
Romanian: ro devanagari f
Russian: ru девана́гари n dɛvanágari
Sanskrit: sa देवनागरी f, sa नागर m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh девана̀гари m
Latin: sh devanàgari m
Sindhi: sd ديوناگري
Spanish: es devanágari m, es devanagarí m, es devanagari m
Tajik: tg деванагарӣ
Tamil: ta தேவநாகரி
Telugu: te దేవనాగరి
Thai: th เทวนาครี
Urdu: ur دیوناگری f deonāgarī
Further reading
‖Devanagari a. and sb III 279 1 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210033/page/n293/mode/1up
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