delay meaning in Sanskrit
चिर cirá
UK/dɪˈleɪ//dɪˈleɪ/
delay in Sanskrit: चिर (cirá), क्षेप (kṣepa). In English, delay means a period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
Sanskrit words for delay
- delay
- चिर cirá
- delay, procrastination, dilatoriness
- क्षेप kṣepa
English meaning of delay
- noun A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
- noun An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
- noun Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
- noun An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
delay in a sentence
- the delay before the echo of a sound
- Two twenty minutes' delays.
- The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
Synonyms of delay
delay in other languages
- delay in Hindi
- delay in Tamil
- delay in Marathi
- delay in Urdu
- delay in Bengali
- delay in Telugu
- delay in Malayalam
- delay in Kannada
- delay in Punjabi
- delay in Odia
- delay in Assamese
- delay in Nepali
- delay in Pashto
- delay in Arabic
- delay in Malay
- delay in Indonesian
- delay in Persian
- delay in Thai
- delay in Vietnamese
Questions about delay in Sanskrit
- What is the meaning of delay in Sanskrit?
- Delay in Sanskrit is चिर (cirá), क्षेप (kṣepa).
- delay इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
- Delay: चिर (cirá), क्षेप (kṣepa).
- What does delay mean in English?
- Delay means a period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
Source and license
Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “delay”: क्षेप, चिर. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: delay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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