twilight meaning in Sanskrit
संधा saṃdhā́
/ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt/
twilight in Sanskrit: संधा (saṃdhā́). In English, twilight means the soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
Sanskrit words for twilight
- twilight, evening
- संधा saṃdhā́
English meaning of twilight
- noun The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
- noun The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
- noun Any faint light through which something is seen.
- noun The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
twilight in a sentence
- Near-synonym: half-light
- I could just make out her face in the twilight.
- It was twilight by the time I got back home.
Synonyms of twilight
twilight in other languages
- twilight in Hindi
- twilight in Tamil
- twilight in Marathi
- twilight in Urdu
- twilight in Bengali
- twilight in Telugu
- twilight in Malayalam
- twilight in Kannada
- twilight in Gujarati
- twilight in Odia
- twilight in Nepali
- twilight in Tagalog
- twilight in Arabic
- twilight in Malay
- twilight in Indonesian
- twilight in Thai
- twilight in Vietnamese
Questions about twilight in Sanskrit
- What is the meaning of twilight in Sanskrit?
- Twilight in Sanskrit is संधा (saṃdhā́).
- twilight इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
- Twilight: संधा (saṃdhā́).
- What does twilight mean in English?
- Twilight means the soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “twilight”: संधा. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: twilight (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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