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Vyakarana (Sanskrit grammar)

Source: Wikisource: A dictionary of Sanskrit grammar

1) Alpaprāṇa (अल्पप्राण).—Non-aspirate letters letters requiring little breath from the mouth for their utterance as opposed to mahāprāṇa;

2) Alpaprāṇa.—Non-aspiration; one of the external articulate efforts characterizing the utterance of non-aspirate letters.

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Vyakarana (व्याकरण, vyākaraṇa) refers to Sanskrit grammar and represents one of the six additional sciences (vedanga) to be studied along with the Vedas. Vyakarana concerns itself with the rules of Sanskrit grammar and linguistic analysis in order to establish the correct context of words and sentences.

Shiksha (linguistics: phonetics, phonology etc.)

Source: Knowledge Traditions & Practices of India: Language and Grammar (shiksha)

Alpaprāṇa (अल्पप्राण, “unaspirated”) refers to a type of ābhyantara (“internal effort”) of articulation (uccāraṇa) according to Indian linguistic tradition (viz., śikṣā, ‘phonetics’, vyakaraṇa, ‘grammar’, nirukta, etymology’ and chandas, ‘prosody’.). Īṣatsaṃvṛta (unaspirated, or slight aspiration) occurs, for instance, when pronouncing ba.

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Shiksha (शिक्षा, śikṣā) deals with Sanskrit linguistics and represents a branch of vedanga (vedic ancillary science). Shiksha deals with subjects such as phonetics, phonology, study of sound, letters of the Sanskrit alphabet and related topics. Much attention is also given to the study of recitation (patha) of Vedic verses.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

alpaprāṇa (अल्पप्राण).—m S A common term for the facile or unforced movements of the breath in pronunciation; simple utterance without aspiration: also an unaspirated letter; as ka, ga, ṅa, ca, ja, ña &c. down to va, in all nineteen. See mahāprāṇa, prayatna, bāhyaprayatna.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Alpaprāṇa (अल्पप्राण).—a. having little power or strength, having short breath, asthmatic; °णश्च क्रियासु भवति (ṇaśca kriyāsu bhavati) Suśr. (-ṇaḥ) 1 slight breathing or weak aspiration.

2) (in gram.) a name given to the unaspirated letters of the alphabet (in pronouncing which little effort is required); अयुग्मा वर्गयमगा यणश्चाल्पासवः स्मृताः (ayugmā vargayamagā yaṇaścālpāsavaḥ smṛtāḥ) Sk. i. e. the vowels, semivowels, nasals and the letters क् च् ट् त् प् ग् ज् ड् द् ब् (k c ṭ t p g j ḍ d b).

Alpaprāṇa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms alpa and prāṇa (प्राण). See also (synonyms): alpāsu.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Alpaprāṇa (अल्पप्राण):—[=alpa-prāṇa] [from alpa] m. (in [grammar]) slight breathing or weak aspiration (the effort in uttering the vowels, the semivowels y, r, l, v, the consonants k, c, ṭ, t, p, g, j, ḍ, i, b, and the nasals, is said to be accompanied with slight aspiration, but practically alpaprāṇa is here equivalent to unaspirated, as opposed to mahā-prāṇa q.v.), [Pāṇini 1-1, 9 [Scholiast or Commentator]]

2) [v.s. ...] mfn. having short breath, not persevering, soon tired, [Suśruta] pronounced with slight breathing, [Kāvyādarśa]

[Sanskrit to German]

Alpaprana in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Alpaprāṇa (ಅಲ್ಪಪ್ರಾಣ):—[adjective] having lesser strength than required or being sufficient; weak.

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Alpaprāṇa (ಅಲ್ಪಪ್ರಾಣ):—[noun] any of the unaspirated consonants or the ones with weak aspiration (ಕ, ಗ, ಚ, ಜ, ಟ, ಡ, ತ, ದ, ಪ [ka, ga, ca, ja, ta, da, ta, da, pa] and ಬ) of Kannaḍa alphabet.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Alpaprāṇa (अल्पप्राण):—adj. Phonol. non-aspirated;

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Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Alpa, Prana.

Starts with: Alpapranakshara, Alpaprananukarana.

Full-text: Alpapranakshara, Abhyantaraprayatna, Mahaprana, J, C, G, Alpasu, Anupradana, N, Li, Prana.

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