The Sanskrit term Anveṣṭṛ can be transliterated into English as Anvestr or Anveshtri, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anveṣṭṛ (अन्वेष्टृ).—a. Searching after, seeking for, inquiring &c.; सदा हि दर्शनाकाङ्क्षी श्रेयोऽन्वेषी च वो हरिः (sadā hi darśanākāṅkṣī śreyo'nveṣī ca vo hariḥ) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 3.183.4. पौरा अस्मदन्वेषिणः (paurā asmadanveṣiṇaḥ) Ś.1.; अनुपद्यन्वेष्टा (anupadyanveṣṭā) P.V. 2.9; अन्तरान्वेषी भवामि (antarānveṣī bhavāmi) Ś.7; तौ सीतान्वेषिणौ (tau sītānveṣiṇau) R.12.54; कुमुदविटपान्वेषी हंसः (kumudaviṭapānveṣī haṃsaḥ) H.4.12.

See also (synonyms): anveṣaka, anveṣin.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anveṣṭṛ (अन्वेष्टृ).—mfn. (-ṣṭā-ṣṭrī-ṣṭṛ) An enquirer, a searcher. E. anu before iṣa, and tṛc affix of agency.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anveṣṭṛ (अन्वेष्टृ).—i. e. anu- 2. iṣ + tṛ, m. A searcher, [Nala] 16, 30.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anveṣṭṛ (अन्वेष्टृ).—[adjective] searching, seeking.

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

1) Anveṣṭṛ (अन्वेष्टृ):—[=anv-eṣṭṛ] [from anv-iṣ] a ([Pāṇini 5-2, 90, etc.]) mfn. searching, inquiring.

2) [v.s. ...] b mfn. searching, pursuing, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anveṣṭṛ (अन्वेष्टृ):—[tatpurusha compound] m. f. n. (-ṣṭā-ṣṭrī-ṣṭṛ) A searcher. E. iṣ (cl. 4) with anu, kṛt aff. tṛc.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anveṣṭṛ (अन्वेष्टृ):—[anve+ṣṭṛ] (ṣṭā) 4. m. An enquirer.

context information

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

Anvēṣṭṛ (ಅನ್ವೇಷ್ಟೃ):—

1) [noun] one who looks into carefully and thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something; a searcher.

2) [noun] one who researches; a researcher.

3) [noun] one who invents new things, devises, for the first time; an inventor.

4) [noun] one who explores unknown or little known regions in search of geographical or scientific information; an explorer.

context information

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

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Eshtri.

Full-text: Anvesaka, Anvesin.

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