Etymology

anusvara

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Today it means: A diacritic used in Indic scripts as a nasal consonant. Full definition →

Sanskrit अनुस्वार
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  1. Sanskrit · borrowed fromअनुस्वार
  2. English todayanusvara

Borrowed from Sanskrit अनुस्वार (anusvā́ra).

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