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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Parivādaka (परिवादक).—

1) A plaintiff, complainant, accuser.

2) One who plays on the lute.

Derivable forms: parivādakaḥ (परिवादकः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Parivādaka (परिवादक).—adj. or subst. m. (compare Sanskrit °vāda), re- viling, one who reviles: asmākaṃ °kāḥ Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 272.8 (verse).

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

Parivādaka (परिवादक).—m.

(-kaḥ) An accuser, a plaintiff, a complaint or calumniator. E. pari implying censure, vad to speak, vuñ aff.

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

1) Parivādaka (परिवादक):—[=pari-vādaka] [from pari-vad] m. a complainant, accuser, calumniator, [Horace H. Wilson]

2) [v.s. ...] one who plays on the lute, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Parivādaka (परिवादक):—[pari-vādaka] (kaḥ) 1. m. An accuser.

[Sanskrit to German]

Parivadaka in German

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

Parivādaka (ಪರಿವಾದಕ):—

1) [noun] a man who charges another of wrong doing; charger; an accuser.

2) [noun] he who plays a stringed musical instrument.

3) [noun] a kind of musical instrument.

context information

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

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Parivādaka (परिवादक):—adj. reproaching; slandering; backbiting; n. 1. one who reproaches; 2. plaintiff; complainant; 3. player on the vina (musical instrument);

context information

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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Vadaka, Pari.

Starts with: Parivadakara, Parivadakatha.

Full-text: Parivadak.

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