The Sanskrit term Nakhanikṛntana can be transliterated into English as Nakhanikrntana or Nakhanikrintana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Nakhanikṛntana (नखनिकृन्तन).—a pair of nail-scissors, nail-parer; यथा सोम्यैकेन नखनिकृन्तनेन सर्वं कार्ष्णायसं विज्ञातम् (yathā somyaikena nakhanikṛntanena sarvaṃ kārṣṇāyasaṃ vijñātam) Ch. Up.6.1.6.

Derivable forms: nakhanikṛntanam (नखनिकृन्तनम्).

Nakhanikṛntana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms nakha and nikṛntana (निकृन्तन). See also (synonyms): nakharañjanī.

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

Nakhanikṛntana (नखनिकृन्तन):—[=nakha-nikṛntana] [from nakha] m. or n. n°-scissors, [Chāndogya-upaniṣad]

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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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Partial matches: Nikrintana, Nakha.

Full-text: Nakharanjani.

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