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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Tantunāga (तन्तुनाग).—a (large) shark.

Derivable forms: tantunāgaḥ (तन्तुनागः).

Tantunāga is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms tantu and nāga (नाग).

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

Tantunāga (तन्तुनाग).—m.

(-gaḥ) A shark. E. tantu, and nāga a snake.

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

Tantunāga (तन्तुनाग):—[=tantu-nāga] [from tantu > tan] m. a shark, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Tantunāga (तन्तुनाग):—[tantu-nāga] (gaḥ) 1. m. Idem.

[Sanskrit to German]

Tantunaga 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Taṃtunāga (ತಂತುನಾಗ):—[noun] any of various orders of cartilaginous, voracious, marine fishes (elasmobranch class) that are usu. large and mostly marine, having a tough, spiny skin, separate lateral gill openings, and a slender, rounded body with the mouth on the underside; a shark.

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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: Tantu, Naga.

Full-text: Naga.

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