Devanagari

See also: devanagari, devanágari, and Dēvanāgarī

EnglishEdit

Devanagari script (vowels top, consonants bottom) in Chandas font.

From Sanskrit देवनागरी (devanāgarī), compound of देव (deva, “deity, divine”) + नगर (nagara, “town, city”).

Devanagari (not comparable)

Devanagari (uncountable)

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.
Synonym: Devanagari alphabet (nonstandard)

abugida alphabet of India and Nepal

Afrikaans: Dewanagari (af), Devanagari
Arabic: دِيفَانَاجَارِي‎ m (difanagarī), دِيفَانَاجَارِي‎ m (difanajarī), دِيفَانَاغَارِي‎ m (difanaḡarī), دِيفَانَاغَارِي‎ m (difanagarī)
Armenian: դևանագարի (dewanagari)
Assamese: দেৱনাগৰী (dewnagori)
Bengali: দেবনাগরী (debnagrī)
Catalan: devanagari (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 天城文 (tin¹ sing⁴ man⁴)

Mandarin: 天城文 (zh) (tiānchéngwén)
Estonian: devanaagari
Finnish: devanagari
French: dévanagari (fr) f, m, devanagari (fr) f, m
Galician: devanāgarī m
Georgian: დევანაგარი (devanagari)
German: Devanagari (de) f, Dewanagari f
Greek: ντεβανάγκαρι (el) n (devanágkari)
Gujarati: દેવનાગરી (devnāgrī)
Hebrew: דֶּוַונַאגַּרִי‎ m (devanagarí)
Hindi: देवनागरी (hi) f (devnāgrī)
Hungarian: dévanágari írás
Indonesian: dewanagari (id)
Italian: devanagari (it) f, m
Japanese: デーヴァナーガリー (ja) (dēvanāgarī)
Kannada: ದೇವನಾಗರಿ (kn) (dēvanāgari)