Sanskrit

See also: sanskrit and sanskrít

English

Alternative forms

• Sanscrit, Samskrit, Sunscrit, Sunskrit
• Shanscrit, Shanskrit (archaic)
• Skt. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit संस्कृत (saṃskṛtá, “perfected, prepared, constructed, refined”). First use appears c. 1617 in the publications of Samuel Purchas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsænskɹɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

Sanskrit (uncountable)

2. A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism.

   Hyponyms: Classical Sanskrit, Vedic Sanskrit

   • 2004, Benjamin W. Fortson IV, “Introduction”, in Indo-European Language and Culture, page 8:

     The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps no longer exists...
     - Sir William Jones, 2 February, 1786, at the Asiatick Society.

Derived terms

• Sanskritic
• Sanskritism
• Sanskritist
• Sanskritize
• Sanskritization

Translations

language

• Afan Oromo: Saaniskiriit
• Albanian: sanskritishte (sq) f
• Amharic: ሳንስክሪት (sansəkrit)
• Arabic: سَنْسْكْرِيتِيّ m (sanskrītiyy)
• Aragonese: sanscrito m
• Armenian: սանսկրիտ (hy) (sanskrit)
• Assamese: সংস্কৃত (xoṅskrit)
• Asturian: sánscritu m
• Basque: sanskrito
• Belarusian: санскры́т m (sanskrýt)
• Bengali: সংস্কৃত (bn) (śoṅskrito)
• Bikol Central: Sanskrito
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: সংস্কৃত
• Breton: sañskriteg (br)
• Bulgarian: санскри́т (bg) m (sanskrít)
• Burmese: သင်္သကရိုက် (my) (sangsa.ka.ruik), သက္ကဋ (sakka.ta.), သက္ကတ (my) (sakka.ta.)
• Catalan: sànscrit (ca) m
• Cebuano: pinulongang Sanskrito
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 梵語／梵语 (faan⁶ jyu⁵)

  Hakka: 梵語／梵语 (Fan-ngî)

  Hokkien: 梵語／梵语 (Hôan-gí, Hôan-gú)

  Mandarin: 梵語／梵语 (zh) (fànyǔ)

  Wu: 梵語／梵语 (⁶ve-gniu)

• Cornish: Sanskrytek
• Corsican: sanscritu (co) m
• Czech: sanskrt (cs) m
• Danish: sanskrit (da) c
• Dhivehi: ސަންސްކްރިއްތް (san̊sk̊ritt̊)
• Dutch: Sanskriet (nl)
• Esperanto: Sanskrito
• Estonian: sanskriti keel
• Faroese: sanskrit n
• Finnish: sanskriitti (fi)
• French: sanskrit (fr) m
• Galician: sánscrito (gl) m
• Georgian: სანსკრიტი (sansḳriṭi)
• German: Sanskrit (de) n; (adjective) sanskritisch (de)
• Greek: σανσκριτικά (el) n pl (sanskritiká)
• Gujarati: સંસ્કૃત (gu) (sãskŕt)
• Hebrew: סַנְסְקְרִיט (sanskrít)
• Hindi: संस्कृत (hi) f (sanskŕt)
• Hungarian: szanszkrit (hu)
• Icelandic: sanskrít (is) n
• Ido: Sanskrito (io)
• Indonesian: bahasa Sanskerta
• Interlingua: sanscrito
• Irish: Sanscrait
• Italian: sanscrito (it) m
• Japanese: サンスクリット (ja) (sansukuritto), 梵語 (ja) (ぼんご, bongo)
• Javanese: basa Sangskreta
• Kannada: ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತ (kn) (saṃskṛta)
• Kapampangan: sangaskulíta
• Kashmiri: سَنٛسکرِت (sanskrit)
• Kazakh: санскрит (sanskrit)
• Khmer: សំស្ក្រឹត (km) (sangskrət)
• Korean: 산스크리트어 (ko) (sanseukeuriteueo), 범어(梵語) (ko) (beomeo)
• Lao: ສັກຕະ (sak ta)
• Latin: lingua Sanscrita f
• Latvian: sanskrits
• Ligurian: lengua sànscrïa f
• Limburgish: Sanskriet
• Lithuanian: sanskritas (lt)
• Low German: Sanskrit
• Macedonian: санскрит m (sanskrit)
• Malagasy: sanskrity
• Malay: Sanskrit (ms)
• Malayalam: സംസ്കൃതം (ml) (saṁskr̥taṁ)
• Marathi: संस्कृत (sauskŕt)
• Mongolian: самгарди (mn) (samgardi)
• Nahuatl: sanscritotlahtōlli
• Nepali: संस्कृत (sanskr̥t)
• Newar: संस्कृत (saṃskr̥ta)
• Norwegian: sanskrit (no)
• Occitan: sanscrit (oc) m
• Odia: ସଂସ୍କୃତ (or) (saṁskruta)
• Persian: سانسکریت (fa) (sânskrit), سهاسکرت (sahâskert)
• Polish: sanskryt (pl) m
• Portuguese: sânscrito (pt) m
• Prakrit: 𑀲𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀬 n (sakkaya)
• Punjabi: ਸੰਸਕ੍ਰਿਤ (pa) (sanskrit)
• Quechua: sanskrit simi
• Romanian: limba sanscrită f
• Russian: санскри́т (ru) m (sanskrít)
• Samogitian: sanskrita kalba f
• Sanskrit: संस्कृत (sa) n (saṃskṛta), देवभाषा f (devabhāṣā)
• Scots: sanskrit
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: са̀нскртскӣ

  Roman: sànskrtskī (sh)

• Sicilian: sanscritu (scn) m, sànscritu (scn) m
• Sindhi: سنسڪرت
• Slovak: sanskrit m, sanskrt m
• Slovene: sanskrt (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sanskrit m

  Upper Sorbian: sanskrit m

• Spanish: sánscrito (es) m
• Sundanese: basa Sangsakerta
• Swahili: Kisanskrit
• Swedish: sanskrit (sv) c
• Tagalog: Sanskrito (tl)
• Tamil: சமசுகிருதம் (ta) (camacukirutam)
• Telugu: సంస్కృతము (te) (saṁskr̥tamu), సంస్కృతం (te) (saṁskr̥taṁ)
• Thai: สันสกฤต (th) (sǎn-sà-grìt)
• Tibetan: ལེགས་སྦྱར (legs sbyar), ལེགས་སྦྱར་སྐད (legs sbyar skad)
• Turkish: Sanskrit (tr)
• Ukrainian: санскри́т (uk) m (sanskrýt)
• Urdu: سنسکرت (ur) f (sanskrit)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Phạn
• Vlax Romani: संस्कृतीकानी
• Waray-Waray: Sinanskrit
• Welsh: Sansgrit
• West Frisian: Sanskryt
• Western Panjabi: سنسکرت (pnb) (snskrt)
• Yiddish: סאַנסקריט (sanskrit)

Adjective

Sanskrit (not comparable)

1. Relating to Sanskrit.

   Synonym: Sanskritic

See also

• Prakrit
• Wiktionary's coverage of Sanskrit terms
• Appendix:Sanskrit Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Sanskrit

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code sa, ISO 639-3 code san (SIL)

Anagrams

• ratskins

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from a European language, ultimately from Sanskrit संस्कृत (saṃskṛta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑn.skrɪt/
• Hyphenation: San‧skrit

Proper noun

Sanskrit n

1. Sanskrit [from late 18th c.]

   Synonym: Sanskriet

Related terms

• Sanskritisch

German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Sanskrit n (proper noun, strong, genitive Sanskrit or Sanskrits)

1. Sanskrit

   Synonyms: Altindisch, altindische Sprache

Derived terms

• sanskritisch

Further reading

• “Sanskrit” in Duden online
• “Sanskrit” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sanskɾit/

Proper noun

Sanskrit

1. Sanskrit language

Derived terms

• Sanskritçe