Devanagari, Deva-nagari, Dēvanāgarī, Devanāgarī: 10 definitions

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Devanagari means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

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In Hinduism

Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

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Devanāgarī (देवनागरी).—(also called nāgarī) The name of the script most commonly used to write Sanskrit. Note: Deva-nāgarī is a Sanskrit technical term used in ancient Indian sciences such as Astronomy, Mathematics and Geometry.

Source: Wikibooks (hi): Sanskrit Technical Terms
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Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

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Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

[«previous next»] — Devanagari in Marathi glossary

dēvanāgarī (देवनागरी).—f (S Relating to the town dēvanagara.) The Sanskrit character or alphabet.

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

dēvanāgarī (देवनागरी).—f The Sanskrit character or alphabet.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English
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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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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Devanāgarī (देवनागरी).—Name of the character in which Sanskrit is usually written.

Devanāgarī is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms deva and nāgarī (नागरी).

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Devanāgarī (देवनागरी):—[=deva-nāgarī] [from deva] f. ‘divine city writing’, Name of the character in which Sanskṛt is usually written ([probably] from its having originated in some city), [Colebrooke; Monier-Williams’ Buddhism 66, 1.]

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

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Devanagari 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.

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Hindi dictionary

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Devanāgarī (देवनागरी) [Also spelled devnagri]:—(nf) the script which evolved in India during the post-Gupta era and ultimately developed into a systematic and scientific instrument of writing during the 10th and 11th centuries A.D. Scholars have attributed, though not conclusively, various reasons for its nomenclature. It is the script, at present, adopted for writing Hindi: and Marathi: in their respective areas and for Sanskrit all over India; —[akṣara] Dev:nagri: character(s); —[varṇamālā] the Devnagri: alphabet.

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary
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Kannada-English dictionary

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Dēvanagari (ದೇವನಗರಿ):—[noun] Amarāvati, the city of gods.

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Dēvanāgari (ದೇವನಾಗರಿ):—[noun] the alphabet with some syllabic features derived from Brahmi, used for the writing of Sanskrit (Saṃskṛta).

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus
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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.

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Nepali dictionary

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Devanāgarī (देवनागरी):—n. the Devanagari script; language of the Gods; the Sanskrit script;

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary
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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.

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