Sanskritism
Sanskritism noun: a word or phrase borrowed from Sanskrit for modern usage in India, Sri Lanka and elsewhere, especially in various Indo-Aryan languages.
Noun
Sanskritism (plural Sanskritisms)
- A word or phrase borrowed from Sanskrit for modern usage in India, Sri Lanka and elsewhere, especially in various Indo-Aryan languages.
- My opinion as regards Bengali is that Primary Instruction for the lower classes of people, who are for the most part ethnically allied to the Hindoos should be in the Bengali language, purified, however, from the super-structure of Sanskritism of learned Hindoos and supplemented by the numerous...1991, Sisir Kumar Das, Sahitya Akademi, A History of Indian Literature, page 251, quoting Nawab Abdul Latif, the founder of the Mohammedan Literary Society, 1882
- Synonyms:
- Prakritism
Synonyms of Sanskritism
Forms of Sanskritism
| plural | Sanskritisms |
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Origin of Sanskritism
From Sanskrit + -ism.
Questions about Sanskritism
- What does Sanskritism mean?
- Sanskritism means a word or phrase borrowed from Sanskrit for modern usage in India, Sri Lanka and elsewhere, especially in various Indo-Aryan languages.
- What part of speech is Sanskritism?
- Sanskritism is a noun.
- What is the plural of Sanskritism?
- The plural of Sanskritism is Sanskritisms.
Words near Sanskritism in the dictionary
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