Sanskrit

alternative abbreviation Skt. · alternative Sanscreet · alternative Samescretan · alternative Hanscrit · alternative Samscred · alternative Samscrit · alternative Sangskrit · alternative Sanschrit · alternative Sanschrite · alternative Sanscrit · alternative Sansskirrit · alternative Shamscrit · alternative Shanscreet · alternative Shanscrit · alternative Shanscrita · alternative Shanscritta

1. uncountableA classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism.

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   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.

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

alternative abbreviation Skt. · alternative Sanscreet · alternative Samescretan · alternative Hanscrit · alternative Samscred · alternative Samscrit · alternative Sangskrit · alternative Sanschrit · alternative Sanschrite · alternative Sanscrit · alternative Sansskirrit · alternative Shamscrit · alternative Shanscreet · alternative Shanscrit · alternative Shanscrita · alternative Shanscritta

1. not comparableRelating to Sanskrit.

   Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […].

   1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii

   Synonyms: Sanskritic