The Sanskrit term Durvṛtti can be transliterated into English as Durvrtti or Durvritti, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

durvṛtti (दुर्वृत्ति).—f (S) An evil course of conduct; profligacy.

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

durvṛtti (दुर्वृत्ति).—f An evil course of conduct; profligacy.

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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

Durvṛtti (दुर्वृत्ति).—f.

1) misconduct.

2) misery, want, distress.

3) fraud.

Derivable forms: durvṛttiḥ (दुर्वृत्तिः).

Durvṛtti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms dur and vṛtti (वृत्ति).

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

Durvṛtti (दुर्वृत्ति).—f.

(-ttiḥ) 1. Leading a disreputable life, following a degrading business, &c. 2. Juggling, fraud. E. dur, and vṛtti maintenance.

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

Durvṛtti (दुर्वृत्ति).—f. 1. a bad action, Böhtl. Ind. Spr. 799. 2. distress, Mahābhārata 13, 2389.

Durvṛtti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms dus and vṛtti (वृत्ति).

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

Durvṛtti (दुर्वृत्ति).—[feminine] misery, distress, also = [preceding]

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

1) Durvṛtti (दुर्वृत्ति):—[=dur-vṛtti] [from dur] f. distress, misery, want, [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa]

2) [v.s. ...] vice, crime, [Hitopadeśa iii, 21] ([varia lectio] vṛtta)

3) [v.s. ...] juggling, fraud, [Horace H. Wilson]

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

Durvṛtti (दुर्वृत्ति):—[dur-vṛtti] (ttiḥ) 2. f. Disreputable way of living; juggling, fraud.

[Sanskrit to German]

Durvritti 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

Durvṛtti (ದುರ್ವೃತ್ತಿ):—

1) [noun] = ದುರ್ವೃತ್ತತನ [durvrittatana].

2) [noun] a bad condition or state of affairs.

3) [noun] a wicked person.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Dur, Vritti, Dush, Do, Door, Tur.

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