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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Sanskrit on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Sanskrit in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages.
Sanskrit (/ ˈ s æ n s k r ɪ t /; attributively संस्कृत-, saṃskṛta-; [15] [16] nominally संस्कृतम्, saṃskṛtam, IPA: [sɐ̃skr̩tɐm] [sɐmskr̩tɐm] [17] [18] [d]) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Old English pipor, from an early West Germanic borrowing of Latin piper "pepper", from Greek piperi, probably (via Persian) from Middle Indic pippari, from Sanskrit pippali "long pepper". [87] Pandit via Sanskrit पण्डित paṇdita, meaning "learned one or maestro". Modern Interpretation is a person who offers to mass media their ...
Ṅ (lowercase ṅ) is a letter of the Latin and Sanskrit alphabet, formed by N with the addition of a dot above. [1]The letter is used in Venda and Emilian-Romagnol for the voiced velar nasal (IPA: ŋ), corresponding to the pronunciation of the English digraph "ng" in final position.
The proper Sanskrit pronunciation of the word is ṛta, the ṛ being a vocalic r, like that in pert or dirt, when pronounced with a rhotic r, e.g. as in American, followed by a short a. The most common pronunciation of speakers of modern Indian languages is "rita", with short i and short a, due to the loss of the vocalic r by the successor ...
The word śrī may also be used as an adjective in Sanskrit, which is the origin of the modern use of shri as a title. From the noun, is derived the Sanskrit adjective "śrīmat" (śrimān in the masculine nominative singular, śrīmatī in the feminine), by adding the suffix indicating possession, literally "radiance-having" (person, god, etc.).
It is also said to be derived from the Sanskrit word Rohitah (रोहित: Sanskrit pronunciation: [ˈɽoːɦɪtɐ]) which signifies a red-coloured deer, a form which Brahma once took. [ 2 ] Rohit is also one of the names of the Hindu God Vishnu when he is said to have first arrived on earth as a beautiful red fish.