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4 Sanskrit. 5 Tamil. 6 Telugu. 7 Other languages. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin. Kannada
from Hindi and Urdu: An acknowledged leader in a field, from the Mughal rulers of India like Akbar and Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj Mahal. Maharaja from Hindi and Sanskrit: A great king. Mantra from Hindi and Sanskrit: a word or phrase used in meditation. Masala from Urdu, to refer to flavoured spices of Indian origin.
This is a list of English words of Sanskrit origin. Most of these words were not directly borrowed from Sanskrit. The meaning of some words have changed slightly after being borrowed. Both languages belong to the Indo-European language family and have numerous cognate terms; some examples are "mortal", "mother", "father" and the names of the ...
Sanskritism, a term used to indicate words that are coined out of Sanskrit for modern usage in India, Sri Lanka and elsewhere or neologisms; SanskritOCR, an optical character recognition software for Sanskrit, Hindi and other Indian languages based on Devanagari script
Gunny, an inexpensive bag; from Sanskrit via Hindi and Marathi, [20] probably ultimately from a Dravidian language. [21] Hot toddy, beverage made of alcoholic liquor with hot water, sugar, and spices; from Hindi tari "palm sap", probably from a Dravidian language [22] Idli, a south Indian steamed cake of rice, usually served with sambhar. From ...
According to the traditional categorization in Hindi, direct loanwords from Sanskrit are classed as tatsam (Hindi: तत्सम "as it is, same as therein") and vides͟hī (Hindi: विदेशी "foreign, non-native") for non-Sanskrit loans, [5] such as those from Persian or English, respectively contrasting with tadbhava and deśaja words.
The following is an alphabetical (according to Hindi's alphabet) list of Sanskrit and Persian roots, stems, prefixes, and suffixes commonly used in Hindi. अ (a) [ edit ]
Devanagari is an Indic script used for many Indo-Aryan languages of North India and Nepal, including Hindi, Marathi and Nepali, which was the script used to write Classical Sanskrit. There are several somewhat similar methods of transliteration from Devanagari to the Roman script (a process sometimes called romanisation ), including the ...