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swarabhakti

swarabhakti is the alternative form of svarabhakti.

Meaning of svarabhakti

Noun

svarabhakti (usually uncountable, plural svarabhaktis)

  1. (usually) The epenthesis of a vowel, as in the football chant Engerland for England; anaptyxis.
    • Svarabhakti is a common feature of northern Indian languages such as Hindi and Bengali.

Forms of swarabhakti

pluralswarabhaktis

Questions about swarabhakti

What is swarabhakti the alternative form of?
Swarabhakti is the alternative form of svarabhakti.

Words near swarabhakti in the dictionary

  1. swapt
  2. swaption
  3. swaptions
  4. SWAR
  5. swara
  6. swarabhakti
  7. swarabhaktis
  8. swaraj
  9. swarajes
  10. swarajism
  11. swarajist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swarabhakti (page history and authors); svarabhakti (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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