వచనము

Telugu

Alternative forms

• వచనం (vacanaṁ)

Etymology

From Sanskrit वचन (vacana, “speaking, utterance; pronunciation; statement, mention; speech, sentence, word; grammatical rule; instruction, order; sound, voice; grammatical number”) + -ము (-mu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʋatʃanamu]

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Noun

వచనము • (vacanamu) ? (plural వచనములు)

1. speech, speaking
2. word
3. sentence
4. dictum, an aphorism, a rule
5. prose (as distinguished from metre)
6. (grammar) number

Synonyms

• గద్యము (gadyamu)
• వ (va) (abbreviation)
• వచనంబు (vacanambu)

Derived terms

• (number):
  • ఏకవచనము (ēkavacanamu, “the singular number”)
  • ద్వివచనము (dvivacanamu, “the dual number”)
  • బహువచనము (bahuvacanamu, “the plural number”)

References

• "వచనము" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1121