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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

  1. noun A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
  2. noun A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
  3. noun An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
  4. noun A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.

Full definition of knight

knight in a sentence

  • King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
  • The king knighted the young squire.

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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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