English
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit देवनागरी (devanāgarī), compound of देव (deva, “deity, divine”) + नगर (nagara, “town, city”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌdeɪvəˈnɑːɡ(ə)ɹɪ/, /ˌdɛvəˈnɑːɡ(ə)ɹɪ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌdeɪvəˈnɑɡəɹi/
Adjective
Devanagari (not comparable)
- Of the Devanagari script or of a Devanagari alphabet.
2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 251:The etymologies gave words from Hindustani in the Devanagari script accompanied by transliterations in parentheses.
Derived terms
Proper noun
Devanagari
- An abugida script used to write many languages originating in India and Nepal, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Maithili, Bhili, Konkani, Bhojpuri, and Nepali.
Synonyms
- Nagari (historical)
- abbreviations: (ISO 15924) Deva
Translations
abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
- Afrikaans: Dewanagari (af), Devanagari
- Arabic: دِيفَانَاجَارِي m (difanagarī), دِيفَانَاجَارِي m (difanajarī), دِيفَانَاغَارِي m (difanaḡarī), دِيفَانَاغَارِي m (difanagarī)
- Armenian: դևանագարի (hy) (dewanagari)
- Assamese: দেৱনাগৰী (dewnagori)
- Asturian: devanágari (ast)
- Bengali: দেবনাগরী (bn) (debnagri)
- Burmese: ဒေဝနာဂရီ (my) (dewa.naga.ri), နာဂရီ (my) (naga.ri), ဒေဝနာဂရီအက္ခရာ (dewa.naga.riakhka.ra), နာဂရီအက္ခရာ (naga.riakhka.ra)
- Catalan: devanagari (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 天城文 (tin1 sing4 man4)
- Mandarin: 天城文 (zh) (tiānchéngwén)
- Czech: dévanágarí
- Esperanto: devanagario
- Estonian: devanaagari
- Finnish: devanagari
- French: dévanagari (fr) f or m, devanagari (fr) f or m
- Galician: devanāgarī m
- Georgian: დევანაგარი (devanagari)
- German: Devanagari (de) f, Dewanagari (de) f
- Greek: ντεβανάγκαρι (el) n (ntevanágkari)
- Gujarati: દેવનાગરી (devnāgrī)
- Hebrew: דֶּוַונַאגַּרִי m (devanagarí)
- Hindi: देवनागरी (hi) f (devnāgrī), नागरी (hi) f (nāgrī), नागर (hi) m (nāgar)
- Hungarian: dévanágari írás
- Indonesian: dewanagari (id)
- Irish: Déiveanágraí m
- Italian: devanagari (it) f or m
- Japanese: デーヴァナーガリー (ja) (dēvanāgarī)
- Kannada: ದೇವನಾಗರಿ (kn) (dēvanāgari)
- Khmer: ទេវនាគរី (km) (teiwniəkĕəʼrii)
- Korean: 데바나가리 (debanagari)
- Latvian: dēvanāgarī f, dievanāgarī f
- Lithuanian: devanagari f
- Malayalam: ദേവനാഗരി (ml) (dēvanāgari)
- Marathi: देवनागरी (mr) f (devnāgrī)
- Nepali: देवनागरी (ne) (devanāgarī)
- Pali: devanāgarī
- Pashto: دېوناگري
- Persian: دوناگری (devanâgari), دیواناگری (dêvânâgari)
- Polish: dewanagari (pl) n
- Portuguese: devanágari (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਦੇਵਨਾਗਰੀ (devnāgarī)
- Romani: devnagrī, devǎnagǎrī
- Romanian: devanagari f
- Russian: девана́гари (ru) n (dɛvanágari)
- Sanskrit: देवनागरी (sa) f (devanāgarī), नागर (sa) m (nāgara)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: девана̀гари m
- Roman: devanàgari (sh) m
- Sindhi: ديوناگري
- Spanish: devanágari m, devanagarí m, devanagari (es) m
- Tajik: деванагарӣ (devanagari)
- Tamil: தேவநாகரி (ta) (tēvanākari)
- Telugu: దేవనాగరి (te) (dēvanāgari)
- Thai: เทวนาครี (th) (tee-wá-naa-ká-rii)
- Urdu: دیوناگری f (deonāgarī)
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