plague meaning in Sanskrit
ईति īti
/pleɪɡ//plɛɡ/
plague in Sanskrit: ईति (īti). In English, plague means the bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
Sanskrit words for plague
- plague, distress
- ईति īti
English meaning of plague
- noun The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
- noun An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but especially that caused by the above disease.
- noun A widespread affliction, calamity, or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
- noun A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.
plague in a sentence
- Ten Biblical plagues over Egypt, ranging from locusts to the death of the crown prince, finally forced Pharaoh to let Moses's people go.
- Bart is an utter plague; his pranks never cease.
- Natural catastrophes plagued the colonists till they abandoned the pestilent marshland.
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Questions about plague in Sanskrit
- What is the meaning of plague in Sanskrit?
- Plague in Sanskrit is ईति (īti).
- plague इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
- Plague: ईति (īti).
- What does plague mean in English?
- Plague means the bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “plague”: ईति. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: plague (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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