వచనము

Telugu edit

Alternative forms edit

వచనం (vacanaṁ)

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ʋatʃanamu]
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Noun edit

వచనము • (vacanamu) ? (plural వచనములు)

speech, speaking
word
sentence
dictum, an aphorism, a rule
prose (as distinguished from metre)
(grammar) number

Synonyms edit

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

Derived terms edit

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

References edit

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