Sanskritize

//ˈsɑːnskɹɪtaɪz//

Synonyms for "sanskritize"

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Translations

10 translations across 3 languages.

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Polish

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  • sanskrytyzować verb (to render a non-Sanskrit text, etc., in a form characteristic of Sanskrit morphology or phonology)
  • sanskrytyzować verb (to influence a non-Sanskrit language by Sanskritic vocabulary)
  • sanskrytyzować verb (to emulate rituals and practices of upper classes so as to gain upward social mobility)
  • zsanskrytyzować verb (to render a non-Sanskrit text, etc., in a form characteristic of Sanskrit morphology or phonology)

Portuguese

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  • sanscritizar verb (to render a non-Sanskrit text, etc., in a form characteristic of Sanskrit morphology or phonology)
  • sanscritizar verb (to influence a non-Sanskrit language by Sanskritic vocabulary)

Vietnamese

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  • Phạn hoá verb (to render a non-Sanskrit text, etc., in a form characteristic of Sanskrit morphology or phonology)
  • Phạn hóa verb (to render a non-Sanskrit text, etc., in a form characteristic of Sanskrit morphology or phonology)

Sample sentences

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"In India, gao, gauri, govinda, have relation to Kine." The 1st and 3rd have, but the other (meaning white, fair), none whatever, though the only one to his [Edward Moor's] purpose (and that but in sound), which is to Sanskritize Cuarius, a local epithet of Neptune as worshipped at Cierium in Thessaly!

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One feels further inclined to derive the Sanskrit amśa, a portion, from the aforesaid pañchu, añju, as a Sanskritising of a popular word.

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Taking the old form of the name, ‘Bâdâvi’, which we meet with as far back as Śaka 622 (a.d. 700–1), the interchange of letters,—‘vá’ with ‘bá’; ‘tá’ with ‘dá’; and ‘pi’ with ‘vi’,—is natural enough, whether we take ‘Bâdâvi’ as a Prâkṛit corruption of the Sanskṛit ‘Vâtâpi’, or whether we take ‘Vâtâpi’ as a name already known in Sanskṛit literature and therefore used as the nearest approach towards Sanskṛitizing a Dravidian name.

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The New Testament was translated in 1818 into this Dialect in the Nágari Character, and much Sanskritised.

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