The Sanskrit term Viśvāsaghāta can be transliterated into English as Visvasaghata or Vishvasaghata, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

viśvāsaghāta (विश्वासघात).—m (S) Violation or abuse of confidence reposed; breach of trust.

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visvāsaghāta (विस्वासघात).—&c. Corruptions of viśvāsa &c.

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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

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Viśvāsaghāta (विश्वासघात).—breach of faith, treachery, perfidy.

Derivable forms: viśvāsaghātaḥ (विश्वासघातः).

Viśvāsaghāta is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms viśvāsa and ghāta (घात). See also (synonyms): viśvāsabhaṅga.

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

Viśvāsaghāta (विश्वासघात).—m.

(-taḥ) Violation of trust, treachery. E. viśvāsa, and ghāta destroying.

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

Viśvāsaghāta (विश्वासघात).—m. perfidy, treachery, [Pañcatantra] 101, 25.

Viśvāsaghāta is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms viśvāsa and ghāta (घात).

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

Viśvāsaghāta (विश्वासघात).—[masculine] breach of faith.

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

Viśvāsaghāta (विश्वासघात):—[=vi-śvāsa-ghāta] [from vi-śvāsa > vi-śvas] m. destruction of confidence, violation of trust, treachery, [Rāmatāpanīya-upaniṣad]

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

Viśvāsaghāta (विश्वासघात):—[viśvāsa-ghāta] (taḥ) 1. m. Treachery.

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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

Viśvāsaghāta (ವಿಶ್ವಾಸಘಾತ):—

1) [noun] the act or an instance of breaking the trust placed on him or her; breech of trust.

2) [noun] the impact of this.

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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: Vishvasa, Ghata, Vishva.

Starts with: Vishvasaghataka, Vishvasaghataki.

Full-text: Vishvasabhanga.

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