Devanagari
UK/ˌdeɪvəˈnɑːɡ(ə)ɹɪ//ˌdeɪvəˈnɑɡəɹi/
Devanagari adjective: of the Devanagari script or of a Devanagari alphabet.
Adjective
Devanagari (not comparable)
- Of the Devanagari script or of a Devanagari alphabet.
- The etymologies gave words from Hindustani in the Devanagari script accompanied by transliterations in parentheses.2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 251
Proper noun
Devanagari
Devanagari meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Devanagari in Hindi
- abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
- देवनागरी devnāgrī, नागरी nāgrī, नागर nāgar
Devanagari in Tamil
- abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
- தேவநாகரி tēvanākari
Devanagari in Marathi
- abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
- देवनागरी devnāgrī
Devanagari in Urdu
- abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
- دیوناگری deonāgarī
More languagesFewer languages
- Devanagari in Bengali
- দেবনাগরী debnagri
- Devanagari in Telugu
- దేవనాగరి dēvanāgari
- Devanagari in Malayalam
- ദേവനാഗരി dēvanāgari
- Devanagari in Kannada
- ದೇವನಾಗರಿ dēvanāgari
- Devanagari in Punjabi
- ਦੇਵਨਾਗਰੀ devnāgarī
- Devanagari in Gujarati
- દેવનાગરી devnāgrī
- Devanagari in Sanskrit
- देवनागरी devanāgarī, नागर nāgara
- Devanagari in Assamese
- দেৱনাগৰী dewnagori
- Devanagari in Nepali
- देवनागरी devanāgarī
- Devanagari in Pashto
- دېوناگري
- Devanagari in Arabic
- دِيفَانَاجَارِي difanagarī, دِيفَانَاغَارِي difanaḡarī
- Devanagari in Indonesian
- dewanagari
- Devanagari in Persian
- دوناگری devanâgari, دیواناگری dêvânâgari
- Devanagari in Thai
- เทวนาครี tee-wá-naa-ká-rii
- Devanagari in Myanmar
- ဒေဝနာဂရီ dewa.naga.ri, နာဂရီ naga.ri, ဒေဝနာဂရီအက္ခရာ dewa.naga.riakhka.ra, နာဂရီအက္ခရာ naga.riakhka.ra
- Sindhi
- ديوناگري deonāgre
Synonyms of Devanagari
Origin of Devanagari
Borrowed from Sanskrit देवनागरी (devanāgarī), compound of दे॒व (devá, “divine”) + नग॑र॒ (nágara, “town; city”).
Words formed from Devanagari
Phrases with Devanagari
Questions about Devanagari
- What does Devanagari mean?
- Devanagari means of the Devanagari script or of a Devanagari alphabet.
- What is Devanagari in Hindi?
- Devanagari in Hindi is देवनागरी (devnāgrī), नागरी (nāgrī), नागर (nāgar). See Devanagari meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Devanagari?
- Devanagari can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Devanagari?
- Devanagari is pronounced /ˌdeɪvəˈnɑːɡ(ə)ɹɪ/ (UK).
Words near Devanagari in the dictionary
Source and license
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