Sanskrit

See also: sanskrit and sanskrít

Contents

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• Sanscrit
• Samskrit
• (abbreviation): Skt.

EtymologyEdit

From Sanskrit संस्कृत (saṃ-skṛtá, “perfected, prepared, constructed, refined”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈsænskɹɪt/

Proper nounEdit

Sanskrit

1. A classical language of India ("Indian Latin"), a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, and one of the 23 official languages of India. Member of Indo-Iranian and thus Indo-European language family.

Derived termsEdit

• Sanskritize
• Sanskritization

TranslationsEdit

language

• Albanian: sanskritishte (sq) f
• Amharic: ሳንስክሪት (sanskərit)
• Arabic: لُغَة سَنْسْكْرِيتِيَّة‎ f (luḡa sanskrītiyya), سَنْسْكْرِيتِيّ‎ m (sanskrītiyy)
• Aragonese: sanscrito m
• Armenian: սանսկրիտ (hy) (sanskrit)
• Assamese: সংস্কৃত ভাষা (sanskrit bhasha)
• Asturian: sánscritu m
• Basque: sanskrito
• Belarusian: санскры́т m (sanskrýt)
• Bengali: সংস্কৃত ভাষা (sôngskrit bhasha)
• Bikol Central: Sanskrito
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: সংস্কৃত
• Breton: sañskriteg (br)
• Bulgarian: санскри́т (bg) m (sanskrít)
• Burmese: သင်္သကရိုက် (my) (sangsa.ka.ruik), သက္ကဋ (sakka.ta.)
• Catalan: sànscrit (ca) m
• Cebuano: pinulongang Sanskrito
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 梵語, 梵语 (faan⁶ jyu⁵)

  Hakka: 梵語, 梵语 (Fan-ngî), 梵文 (Fan-vun)

  Mandarin: 梵語 (zh), 梵语 (zh) (fànyǔ), 梵文 (zh) (fànwén)

  Min Nan: 梵語, 梵语 (Hôan-gí, Hôan-gú)

• Cornish: Sanskrytek
• Czech: sanskrt (cs) m
• Danish: sanskrit (da) c
• Dhivehi: ސަންސްކްރިއްތް‎ (sanskrit)
• Dutch: Sanskriet (nl)
• Esperanto: Sanskrito
• Estonian: sanskriti keel
• Faroese: sanskrit n
• Finnish: sanskriitti (fi)
• French: sanskrit (fr) m
• Galician: lingua sánscrita f
• Georgian: სანსკრიტი (sansḳriṭi)
• German: Sanskrit (de) n
• Greek: σανσκριτική γλώσσα f (sanskritikí glóssa), σανσκριτικά (el) n pl (sanskritiká)
• Gujarati: સંસ્કૃત ભાષા (sanskṛt bhāṣā), સંસ્કૃત (gu) (sanskṛt)
• Hebrew: סַנְסְקְרִיט‎ (sanskrít)
• Hindi: संस्कृत भाषा f (sanskŕt bhāṣā), संस्कृत (hi) f (sanskŕt)
• Hungarian: szanszkrit (hu)
• Icelandic: sanskrít (is) n
• Ido: Sanskrito (io)
• Indonesian: bahasa Sanskerta
• Interlingua: sanscrito
• Irish: Sanscrait
• Italian: sanscrito (it) m
• Japanese: サンスクリット (ja) (sansukuritto), 梵語 (ぼんご, bongo)
• Javanese: basa Sangskreta
• Kannada: ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತ (kn) (saṃskr̥ta)
• Khmer: ភាសាសំស្ក្រឹត (pʰiesaa saŋskrət)
• Korean: 산스크리트어 (ko) (sanseukeuriteueo), 범어 (ko) (beomeo) (梵語 (ko))
• Lao: ສັກຕະ (sak ta)

• Latin: lingua Sanscrita f
• Latvian: sanskrits
• Ligurian: lengua sànscrïa f
• Limburgish: Sanskriet
• Lithuanian: sanskritas (lt)
• Low German: Sanskrit
• Macedonian: санскрит m (sanskrit)
• Malagasy: sanskrity
• Malay: Sanskrit (ms)
• Malayalam: സംസ്കൃതം (ml) (saṃskr̥taṃ)
• Marathi: संस्कृत भाषा (sanskŕt bhāṣā)
• Mongolian: самгарди (mn) (samgardi)
• Nahuatl: sanscritotlahtōlli
• Nepali: संस्कृत (sanskṛt)
• Newari: संस्कृत (saṃskṛta)
• Norwegian: sanskrit (no)
• Occitan: sanscrit m
• Oriya: ସଂସ୍କୃତ ଭାଷା (sanskrit bhasha)
• Persian: زبان سانسکریت‎ (fa) (zabân-e sânskrit)
• Polish: sanskryt (pl) m
• Portuguese: sânscrito (pt) m
• Punjabi: سنسکرت‎
• Quechua: sanskrit simi
• Romani: संस्कृतीकानी छीब
• Romanian: limba sanscrită (ro) f
• Russian: санскри́т (ru) m (sanskrít)
• Samogitian: sanskrita kalba f
• Sanskrit: संस्कृत (sa) n (saṃskṛta)
• Scots: sanskrit
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: санскрит m, санскрт m

  Roman: sanskrit m, sanskrt (sh) m

• Sicilian: lingua sanscrita f
• Slovak: sanskrit m, sanskrt m
• Slovene: sanskrt (sl) m
• Spanish: sánscrito (es) m
• Sundanese: basa Sangsakerta
• Swahili: Kisanskrit
• Swedish: sanskrit (sv) c
• Tagalog: wikang Sanskrito
• Tamil: சமசுகிருதம் (ta) (camacukirutam)
• Telugu: సంస్కృతము (te) (saṃskr̥tamu), సంస్కృతం (te) (saṃskr̥taṃ)
• Thai: ภาษาสันสกฤต (th) (pǎasǎa sǎnsakrit), สันสกฤต (th) (sǎnsakrit)
• Tibetan: ལེགས་སྦྱར (legs sbyar), ལེགས་སྦྱར་སྐད (legs sbyar skad)
• Turkish: Sanskrit (tr)
• Ukrainian: санскри́т (uk) m (sanskrýt)
• Urdu: سنسکرت‎ (ur) f (sanskrit)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Phạn
• Waray-Waray: Sinanskrit
• Welsh: Sansgrit
• West Frisian: Sanskryt
• Yiddish: סאַנסקריט‎ (sanskrit)

See alsoEdit

• Classical Sanskrit
• Vedic Sanskrit
• Wiktionary's coverage of Sanskrit terms
• Appendix:Sanskrit Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Sanskrit
• Wikipedia in Sanskrit
• Wiktionary in Sanskrit

Further readingEdit

• ISO 639-1 code sa, ISO 639-3 code san
• Ethnologue entry for Sanskrit, sa

AnagramsEdit

• ratskins

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GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

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NounEdit

Sanskrit n

1. Sanskrit (the Sanskrit language)

SynonymsEdit

• Altindisch
• altindische Sprache

Derived termsEdit

• sanskritisch

Further readingEdit

• Sanskrit in Duden online

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TurkishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): sanskɾit

Proper nounEdit

Sanskrit

1. Sanskrit