The Sanskrit term Mṛtaka can be transliterated into English as Mrtaka or Mritaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Mratak.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

mṛtaka (मृतक).—n (S) Funeral rites. 2 Pollution arising to the surviving relations from the death of.

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

mṛtaka (मृतक).—n Funeral rites.

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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

Mṛtaka (मृतक).—A dead person, a corpse; उवाच मृतकोपान्ते पतितं मृतकोपमम् (uvāca mṛtakopānte patitaṃ mṛtakopamam) A. Rām.6.12.9; ध्रुवं ते जीवन्तोऽप्यहह मृतका मन्दमतयो न येषामानन्दं जनयति जगन्नाथभणितिः (dhruvaṃ te jīvanto'pyahaha mṛtakā mandamatayo na yeṣāmānandaṃ janayati jagannāthabhaṇitiḥ) Bv.4.39.

-kam 1 Impurity contracted through the death of a relation.

2) Death.

Derivable forms: mṛtakaḥ (मृतकः), mṛtakam (मृतकम्).

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

Mṛtaka (मृतक).—n.

(-kaṃ) 1. A dead body, a corpse. 2. Impurity contracted by the death of a near relation. E. mṛt dead, kan added.

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

Mṛtaka (मृतक).—[mṛta + ka], (vb. mṛ), n. A dead body, [Lassen, Anthologia Sanskritica.] 4, 11.

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

Mṛtaka (मृतक).—[masculine] dead man, corpse; [neuter] death.

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

1) Mṛtaka (मृतक):—[from mṛ] mn. a dead man, a corpse, [Mahābhārata; Bhāgavata-purāṇa; Vetāla-pañcaviṃśatikā]

2) [v.s. ...] n. death, decease, [Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra [Scholiast or Commentator]]

3) [v.s. ...] impurity contracted through the death of a relation, [Apte’s The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary]

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

Mṛtaka (मृतक):—(kaṃ) 1. n. A dead body.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Mṛtaka (मृतक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Maḍaya, Mayaga.

[Sanskrit to German]

Mritaka 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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Mṛtaka (मृतक) [Also spelled mratak]:—(nm) a dead body, corpse; —[karma] death rituals, last rites.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Mṛtaka (ಮೃತಕ):—

1) [noun] = ಮೃತ [mrita]2 - 1 & 4.

2) [noun] the dead body of a human being.

3) [noun] religious defilement caused by the death of a person in one’s family.

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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)

Starts with: Mritakalpa, Mritakambala, Mritakantaka, Mritakarma, Mritakasvamoktri, Mritakeshvara.

Ends with: Amritaka, Ashumritaka, Atijivanmritaka, Jivanmritaka, Pramritaka.

Full-text: Mritakantaka, Mataka, Parvarina, Pramritaka, Maratika, Madaya, Mayaga, Mritakasvamoktri, Mratak, Alingana, Uktha, Skandha.

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