Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The alphabet in which Sanskrit and many modern Indian languages are written.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Sanskrit alphabet: same as
Nagari .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The script or characters in which Sanskrit and Hindi are written.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of the Devanagari script or of a Devanagari alphabet.
- noun An
abugida script used to write severalIndian languages, mainlySanskrit andHindi , but alsoMarathi ,Kashmiri ,Sindhi ,Bihari ,Bhili ,Konkani , andBhojpuri . It is also used to writeNepali inNepal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Sanskrit alphabet is called Devanagari, which translates as “the city of the Devas.”
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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The Sanskrit alphabet is called Devanagari, which translates as “the city of the Devas.”
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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The Sanskrit alphabet is called Devanagari, which translates as “the city of the Devas.”
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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"Devanagari," or devine urbane script, has been used to write sacred Sanskrit texts since about the 19th century.
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The Devanagari script is the official script for Konkani to be written in.
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Devanagari: Day-va-na-ga-ri “The city of the Devas”; refers to the written Sanskrit script or the Sanskrit alphabet.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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Aum Namah Śivāya (IAST transliteration, refer to Sanskrit for pronunciation, Devanagari: ॐ नमः शिवाय) is among the foremost mantras.
Om Namah Shiva !!! « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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Consider other languages: some, like Hebrew, Arabic and Devanagari-Hindi, have no capitalized letters, and others, like Japanese, make it possible to drop pronouns altogether.
Why Does the English Language Capitalize The Word ‘I’? | Disinformation 2008
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Devanagari: Day-va-na-ga-ri “The city of the Devas”; refers to the written Sanskrit script or the Sanskrit alphabet.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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Devanagari: Day-va-na-ga-ri “The city of the Devas”; refers to the written Sanskrit script or the Sanskrit alphabet.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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