Sanskrit

Sanskrit

See also: sanskrit and sanskrít

English

Alternative forms

• Sanscrit, Samskrit, Sunscrit, Sunskrit
• Shanscrit, Shanskrit (archaic)
• Skt. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit संस्कृत (saṃskṛtá, “perfected, prepared, constructed, refined”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsænskɹɪt/

Noun

Sanskrit (uncountable)

1. A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism. [from 1610s[1]]

   Hyponyms: Classical Sanskrit, Vedic Sanskrit

   • 2004, Benjamin W. Fortson IV, “Introduction”, in Indo-European Language and Culture, page 8:

     The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps no longer exists...
     - Sir William Jones, 2 February, 1786, at the Asiatick Society.

Derived terms

• Sanskritic
• Sanskritism
• Sanskritist
• Sanskritize
• Sanskritization

Translations

language

Afan Oromo: Saaniskiriit Albanian: sanskritishte (sq) f Amharic: ሳንስክሪት (sansəkrit) Arabic: سَنْسْكْرِيتِيّ‎ m (sanskrītiyy) Aragonese: sanscrito m Armenian: սանսկրիտ (hy) (sanskrit) Assamese: সংস্কৃত (xoṅskrit) Asturian: sánscritu m Basque: sanskrito Belarusian: санскры́т m (sanskrýt) Bengali: সংস্কৃত (bn) (sôṅskŕt) Bikol Central: Sanskrito Bishnupriya Manipuri: সংস্কৃত Breton: sañskriteg (br) Bulgarian: санскри́т (bg) m (sanskrít) Burmese: သင်္သကရိုက် (my) (sangsa.ka.ruik), သက္ကဋ (sakka.ta.), သက္ကတ (my) (sakka.ta.) Catalan: sànscrit (ca) m Cebuano: pinulongang Sanskrito Chinese: Cantonese: 梵語, 梵语 (faan6 jyu5) Hakka: 梵語, 梵语 (Fan-ngî) Mandarin: 梵語／梵语 (zh) (fànyǔ) Min Nan: 梵語, 梵语 (Hôan-gí, Hôan-gú) Wu: 梵語, 梵语 (ve nyy) Cornish: Sanskrytek Corsican: sanscritu (co) m Czech: sanskrt (cs) m Danish: sanskrit (da) c Dhivehi: ސަންސްކްރިއްތް‎ (san̊sk̊ritt̊) Dutch: Sanskriet (nl) Esperanto: Sanskrito Estonian: sanskriti keel Faroese: sanskrit n Finnish: sanskriitti (fi) French: sanskrit (fr) m Galician: sánscrito (gl) m Georgian: სანსკრიტი (sansḳriṭi) German: Sanskrit (de) n; (adjective) sanskritisch (de) Greek: σανσκριτικά (el) n pl (sanskritiká) Gujarati: સંસ્કૃત (gu) (sãskṛt) Hebrew: סַנְסְקְרִיט‎ (sanskrít) Hindi: 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 (ja) (ぼんご, bongo) Javanese: basa Sangskreta Kannada: ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತ (kn) (saṃskṛta) Kapampangan: sangaskulíta Kashmiri: سَنٛسکرِت‎ (sanskrit) Kazakh: санскрит (sanskrit) Khmer: សំស្ក្រឹត (km) (sangskrət) Korean: 산스크리트어 (ko) (sanseukeuriteueo), 범어(梵語) (ko) (beomeo) 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 (sauskrut) Mongolian: самгарди (mn) (samgardi) Nahuatl: sanscritotlahtōlli Nepali: संस्कृत (sanskr̥t) Newar: संस्कृत (saṃskr̥ta) Norwegian: sanskrit (no) Occitan: sanscrit (oc) m Oriya: ସଂସ୍କୃତ (or) (sôṃskrutô) Persian: سانسکریت‎ (fa) (sânskrit) Polish: sanskryt (pl) m Portuguese: sânscrito (pt) m Prakrit: 𑀲𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀬 n (sakkaya) Punjabi: ਸੰਸਕ੍ਰਿਤ (pa) (sanskrit) Quechua: sanskrit simi Romanian: limba sanscrită f Russian: санскри́т (ru) m (sanskrít) Samogitian: sanskrita kalba f Sanskrit: संस्कृत (sa) n (saṃskṛta), देवभाषा f (devabhāṣā) Scots: sanskrit Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: са̀нскртскӣ Roman: sànskrtskī Sicilian: sanscritu (scn) m, sànscritu (scn) m Sindhi: سنسڪرت‎ Slovak: sanskrit m, sanskrt m Slovene: sanskrt (sl) m Spanish: sánscrito (es) m Sundanese: basa Sangsakerta Swahili: Kisanskrit Swedish: sanskrit (sv) c Tagalog: Sanskrito (tl) Tamil: சமசுகிருதம் (ta) (camacukirutam) Telugu: సంస్కృతము (te) (saṁskr̥tamu), సంస్కృతం (te) (saṁskr̥taṁ) Thai: สันสกฤต (th) (sǎn-sà-grìt) 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 Vlax Romani: संस्कृतीकानी Waray-Waray: Sinanskrit Welsh: Sansgrit West Frisian: Sanskryt Western Panjabi: سنسکرت‎ (pnb) (snskrt) Yiddish: סאַנסקריט‎ (sanskrit)

Adjective

Sanskrit (not comparable)

1. Relating to Sanskrit.

   Synonym: Sanskritic

See also

• Prakrit
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sanskrit terms
• Appendix:Sanskrit Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Sanskrit

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “Sanskrit”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code sa, ISO 639-3 code san (SIL)

Anagrams

• ratskins

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Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from a European language, ultimately from Sanskrit संस्कृत (saṃskṛta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑn.skrɪt/
• Hyphenation: San‧skrit

Proper noun

Sanskrit n

1. Sanskrit [from late 18th c.]

   Synonym: Sanskriet

Related terms

• Sanskritisch

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German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Sanskrit n (proper noun, strong, genitive Sanskrit or Sanskrits)

1. Sanskrit

   Synonyms: Altindisch, altindische Sprache

Derived terms

• sanskritisch

Further reading

• “Sanskrit” in Duden online
• “Sanskrit” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sanskɾit/

Proper noun

Sanskrit

1. Sanskrit language

Derived terms

• Sanskritçe