visarga

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit विसर्ग (visarga).

Noun

visarga (plural visargas)

1. (phonology, Sanskrit grammar) the voiceless terminal h in Sanskrit
   • 1934, P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri, History of Grammatical Theories in Tamil and Their Relation to the Grammatical Literature in Sanskrit‎^[1]:

     XXV of Centamil published by the Tamil Sangam at Madura that in ancient times āytam was represented by visarga.

Translations

voiceless h in Sanskrit

• Bengali: বিসর্গ (bn) (biśorgo), (symbol) ঃ (bn)
• Burmese: ရှေ့ကပေါက် (my) (hre.ka.pauk), ဝစ္စပေါက် (my) (wacca.pauk), ရှေ့ဆီး (my) (hre.hci:), (symbol) း (my)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 止韻／止韵 (zhǐyùn)

• Finnish: visarga (fi)
• French: visarga (fr) m
• Hindi: विसर्ग (hi) (visarg), (symbol) ः
• Japanese: ヴィサルガ (ja) (visaruga)
• Khmer: រះមុខ (km) (rĕəh muk), វិសគ៌ (vĭsគ៌), វិសជ្ជនីយ (vɨhccɔɔniiy), (symbol)ះ (km)
• Malayalam: വിസർഗം (ml) (visaṟgaṁ), (symbol) ഃ
• Portuguese: visarga m
• Russian: ви́сарга (ru) f (vísarga)
• Sanskrit: विसर्ग (sa) (visarga), (symbol) ः
• Sinhalese: (symbol) ඃ (si)
• Tamil: ஃ (ta), முப்புள்ளி (ta) (muppuḷḷi), ஆய்தம் (ta) (āytam)
• Telugu: విసర్గ (te) (visarga), (symbol) ః
• Thai: วิสรรชนีย์ (th) (wí-sǎn-chá-nii)

See also

• anusvara
• Symbols for visarga in various scripts:
  • ः (Devanagari)
  • ঃ (Bengali)
  • ਃ (Gurmukhi)
  • ઃ (Gujarati)
  • ଃ (Odia)
  • ஃ (Tamil)
  • ః (Telugu)
  • ಃ (Kannada)
  • ഃ (Malayalam)
  • ཿ (Tibetan)
  • း (Burmese)
  • ះ (Khmer)
  • 𑄂 (Chakma)
  • ඃ (Sinhala)

Anagrams

• viagras

Portuguese

Noun

visarga m (plural visargas)

1. (Sanskrit phonetics) visarga (voiceless h in Sanskrit)