nostril meaning in Sanskrit
फण phaṇa
/ˈnɒs.tɹɪl/US/ˈnɑ.stɹəl/
nostril in Sanskrit: फण (phaṇa), नासिका (nā́sikā). In English, nostril means either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.
Sanskrit words for nostril
- nostril
- फण phaṇa, नासिका nā́sikā
English meaning of nostril
- noun Either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.
Synonyms of nostril
nostril in other languages
- nostril in Hindi
- nostril in Tamil
- nostril in Marathi
- nostril in Urdu
- nostril in Bengali
- nostril in Telugu
- nostril in Malayalam
- nostril in Kannada
- nostril in Punjabi
- nostril in Gujarati
- nostril in Nepali
- nostril in Pashto
- nostril in Tagalog
- nostril in Arabic
- nostril in Malay
- nostril in Indonesian
- nostril in Persian
- nostril in Thai
- nostril in Vietnamese
- nostril in Myanmar
Questions about nostril in Sanskrit
- What is the meaning of nostril in Sanskrit?
- Nostril in Sanskrit is फण (phaṇa), नासिका (nā́sikā).
- nostril इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
- Nostril: फण (phaṇa), नासिका (nā́sikā).
- What does nostril mean in English?
- Nostril means either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.
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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “nostril”: नासिका, फण. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: nostril (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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