knight meaning in Sanskrit
अश्व áśva
/ˈnɐɪ̯t/UK/ˈnaɪ̯t/
knight in Sanskrit: अश्व (áśva). In English, knight means a young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
Sanskrit words for knight
- knight
- अश्व áśva
English meaning of knight
- noun A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
- noun A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
- noun An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
- noun A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
knight in a sentence
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- The king knighted the young squire.
Synonyms of knight
knight in other languages
- knight in Hindi
- knight in Tamil
- knight in Marathi
- knight in Urdu
- knight in Bengali
- knight in Telugu
- knight in Malayalam
- knight in Kannada
- knight in Punjabi
- knight in Gujarati
- knight in Nepali
- knight in Tagalog
- knight in Arabic
- knight in Malay
- knight in Indonesian
- knight in Persian
- knight in Thai
- knight in Vietnamese
- knight in Myanmar
Questions about knight in Sanskrit
- What is the meaning of knight in Sanskrit?
- Knight in Sanskrit is अश्व (áśva).
- knight इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
- Knight: अश्व (áśva).
- What does knight mean in English?
- Knight means a young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “knight”: अश्व. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: knight (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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