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Marathi-English dictionary

pratispardhā (प्रतिस्पर्धा).—f (S) Emulation or rivalry; the wish or the effort to excel or overcome. v lāva, dhara, kara, māṇḍa.

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

pratispardhā (प्रतिस्पर्धा).—f Emulation or rivalry; the wish to excel or overcome.

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.

Sanskrit dictionary

Pratispardhā (प्रतिस्पर्धा).—Rivalry, emulation.

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pratispardhā (प्रतिस्पर्धा) or Pratisparddhā.—f.

(-rddhā) Emulation, rivalry, the wish or effort to excel or overcome. E. prati definitive prefix, and sparddhā emulation.

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

Pratispardhā (प्रतिस्पर्धा).—[prati-spardhā], f. Emulation.

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

Pratispardhā (प्रतिस्पर्धा):—[=prati-spardhā] [from prati-spardh] f. emulation, rivalry, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Pratispardhā (प्रतिस्पर्धा):—(von spardh mit prati) f. Wetteifer, ein Kampf um den Vorrang [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Pratispardhā (प्रतिस्पर्धा):—f. Wetteifer , ein Kampf im den Vorrang.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

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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

Pratispardhā (प्रतिस्पर्धा):—(nf) rivalry, contest; competition; ~[spardhī] rival, contestant; competitor.

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

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Nepali dictionary

Pratispardhā (प्रतिस्पर्धा):—n. 1. competition; rivalry; 2. pride; arrogance;

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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Partial matches: Prati, Spardha.

Full-text: Pratisparddha.

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