Devanagari

See also: devanagari, devanágari, and Dēvanāgarī

English

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdeɪvəˈnɑːɡ(ə)ɹɪ/, /ˌdɛvəˈnɑːɡ(ə)ɹɪ/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌdeɪvəˈnɑɡəɹi/
Audio (US) (file)

Adjective

Devanagari (not comparable)

Of the Devanagari script or of a Devanagari alphabet.
- 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 251:
  The etymologies gave words from Hindustani in the Devanagari script accompanied by transliterations in parentheses.

Derived terms

Devanagari numeral

Proper noun

Devanagari

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)

Translations

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 (hy) (dewanagari)
Assamese: দেৱনাগৰী (dewnagori)
Bengali: দেবনাগরী (debnagrī)
Burmese: ဒေဝနာဂရီ (my) (dewa.naga.ri), နာဂရီ (my) (naga.ri), ဒေဝနာဂရီအက္ခရာ (dewa.naga.riakhka.ra), နာဂရီအက္ခရာ (naga.riakhka.ra)
Catalan: devanagari (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 天城文 (tin¹ sing⁴ man⁴)
Mandarin: 天城文 (zh) (tiānchéngwén)
Czech: dévanágarí
Estonian: devanaagari
Finnish: devanagari
French: dévanagari (fr) f or m, devanagari (fr) f or m
Galician: devanāgarī m
Georgian: დევანაგარი (devanagari)
German: Devanagari (de) f, Dewanagari (de) f
Greek: ντεβανάγκαρι (el) n (devanágkari)
Gujarati: દેવનાગરી (devnāgrī)
Hebrew: דֶּוַונַאגַּרִי‎ m (devanagarí)
Hindi: देवनागरी (hi) f (devnāgrī), नागरी (hi) f (nāgrī), नागर (hi) m (nāgar)
Hungarian: dévanágari írás
Indonesian: dewanagari (id)
Irish: Déiveanágraí m
Italian: devanagari (it) f or m
Japanese: デーヴァナーガリー (ja) (dēvanāgarī)
Kannada: ದೇವನಾಗರಿ (kn) (dēvanāgari)
Khmer: ទេវនាគរី (km) (teiwniəkĕəʼrii)
Korean: 데바나가리 (debanagari)
Latvian: dēvanāgarī f, dievanāgarī f
Lithuanian: devanagari f
Malayalam: ദേവനാഗരി (ml) (dēvanāgari)
Marathi: देवनागरी (mr) f (devnāgrī)
Nepali: देवनागरी (ne) (devanāgarī)
Pali: devanāgarī
Pashto: دېوناگري‎
Persian: دوناگری‎ (devanâgari), دیواناگری‎ (dêvanâgari)
Polish: dewanagari (pl) n
Portuguese: devanágari (pt) m
Punjabi: ਦੇਵਨਾਗਰੀ (devnāgarī)
Romani: devnagrī, devǎnagǎrī
Romanian: devanagari f
Russian: девана́гари (ru) n (dɛvanágari)
Sanskrit: देवनागरी (sa) f (devanāgarī), नागर (sa) m (nāgara)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: девана̀гари m
Roman: devanàgari (sh) m
Sindhi: ديوناگري‎
Spanish: devanágari m, devanagarí m, devanagari (es) m
Tajik: деванагарӣ (devanagarī)
Tamil: தேவநாகரி (ta) (tēvanākari)
Telugu: దేవనాగరి (te) (dēvanāgari)
Thai: เทวนาครี (th) (tee-wá-naa-ká-rii)
Urdu: دیوناگری‎ f (devnāgrī)