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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 ...
A. Abhidhana; Abhisheka; Acharya; Ādeśa; Adharma; Adṛṣṭa; Adveṣa; Ahimsa; Āhrīkya; Akashvani (word) Akriya; Akshara; Alobha; Amoha; Amrita; Ānanda (Hindu ...
Sanskrit (/ ˈ s æ n s k r ɪ t /; attributively संस्कृत-; [15] [16] nominally संस्कृतम्, saṃskṛtam, [17] [18] [d]) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Sanskrit is sacred language of Indian origin religions, such as Hinduism, Jainism & Buddhism. Historic Sanskrit texts; Sanskrit Buddhist literature; Hindu scriptures. List of Hindu texts in Sanskrit; Sanskrit prosody, one of the six Vedangas, or limbs, of Vedic studies; Legendary Hindu creatures in Sanskrit mythology
Sanskritism is a term used to indicate words that are coined out of Sanskrit for modern usage in India, in Sri Lanka and elsewhere or for neologisms. They are often formed as calques of English words. [1] [2] [3] These terms are similar in nature to taxon terms coined from Latin and Greek.
Shloka or śloka (Sanskrit: श्लोक śloka, from the root श्रु śru, lit. ' hear ' [1] [2]) in a broader sense, according to Monier-Williams's dictionary, is "any verse or stanza; a proverb, saying"; [3] but in particular it refers to the 32-syllable verse, derived from the Vedic anuṣṭubh metre, used in the Bhagavad Gita and many other works of classical Sanskrit literature.
Nāgarī is an adjective derived from nagara , a Sanskrit word meaning "town" or "city", and literally means "urban" or "urbane". [21] The word Nāgarī (implicitly modifying lipi , "script") was used on its own to refer to a North Indian script, or perhaps a number of such scripts, as Al-Biruni attests in the 11th century; the form ...
Yes indeed there are quite a few Sanskrit words in English. However, there are too many common words in Sanskrit and English as both are Indo-European languages and Sanskrit the older one. Example, Sanskrit to English: cut=cut, nas=nose, irm=arm, hrt=heart, naam=name, dwar=door, widhwa=widow, madium=medium, uppar=upper, charittar=character, etc.