visarga

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:

     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) (bisôrgô), (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, វិសជ្ជនីយ (vɨhccɔɔniiy), (symbol)ះ (km) Malayalam: വിസർഗം (ml) (visaṟgaṃ), (symbol) ഃ Portuguese: visarga m Russian: ви́сарга (ru) f (vísarga) Sanskrit: विसर्ग (sa) (visarga), (symbol) ः Sinhalese: (symbol) ඃ (si) 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)
  • ଃ (Oriya)
  • ஃ (Tamil)
  • ః (Telugu)
  • ಃ (Kannada)
  • ഃ (Malayalam)
  • ཿ (Tibetan)
  • း (Burmese)
  • ះ (Khmer)
  • 𑄂 (Chakma)
  • ඃ (Sinhala)

Anagrams

• viagras

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Portuguese

Noun

visarga m (plural visargas)

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