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"Sanskrit" in a Sentence (12 examples)
The word "rook" comes from Sanskrit and means "chariot".
Samsara is a Sanskrit word that means “the ever turning wheel of life”.
A daughter language descends from another language - for example, Hindi is a daughter language of Sanskrit.
Indians know their country by many names: "Bharat" from Sanskrit, "Hindustan" from Persian and "India" from English.
The Vedas were written in Sanskrit.
Many Hindus consider Sanskrit to be the language of the gods.
Therefore, E.T.A. Hoffman asserts: "Music is the most romantic of all arts, for its object is the infinite. It is the mysterious Sanskrit of nature, spoken in tones which fill up the soul of mankind with infinite yearning; and it alone lets us understand the songs of the trees, the flowers, the animals, the stones and the waters."
Chandra means "moon" in Sanskrit.
Tom doesn't understand Sanskrit.
In addition, devanagari is an abugida, used for Sanskrit, Nepali and Hindi, in which the characters contain a final 'a'-sound if another vowel does not change the sound. However, Arabic and Hebrew use separate systems called abjads, in which the vowels are not always indicated.
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The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps no longer exists... - Sir William Jones, 2 February, 1786, at the Asiatick Society.
Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […].
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