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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Prativāda (प्रतिवाद).—

1) An answer, a rejoinder, reply.

2) Refusal, rejection; उद्यतस्य हि कामस्य प्रतिवादो न शस्यते (udyatasya hi kāmasya prativādo na śasyate) Bhāg. 3.22.12.

Derivable forms: prativādaḥ (प्रतिवादः).

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

Prativāda (प्रतिवाद).—m.

(-daḥ) 1. A rejoinder, a reply. 2. Refusal. E. prati + vada-ghañ .

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

Prativāda (प्रतिवाद).—[masculine] rejection, refusal.

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

1) Prativāda (प्रतिवाद):—[=prati-vāda] [from prati-vad] m. contradiction, rejection, refusal, [Aitareya-āraṇyaka] (a-prativ), [Mahābhārata; Bhāgavata-purāṇa]

2) [v.s. ...] an answer, reply, rejoinder, [Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary]

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

Prativāda (प्रतिवाद) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Paḍivāya.

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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

Prativāda (प्रतिवाद) [Also spelled prativad]:—(nm) a controversy; refutation, contradiction, counter-statement; responsive argument; —[pakṣa] the defence (side).

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Prativāda (ಪ್ರತಿವಾದ):—

1) [noun] a refuting or proving (an argument, statement, accusation, etc.) to be false or wrong.

2) [noun] an answer, response or reply.

3) [noun] a counter argument put forward by an advocate in a court of law denying, confuting the charges, accusations, argument etc. of the opponent party and defending onself.

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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: Vada, Prati, Vata.

Ends with: Aprativada, Vadaprativada.

Full-text: Prativacana, Vadaprativada, Pirativatam, Prativad, Vaad, Padivaya.

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