Sanskrit

• Sanscrit, Samskrit, Sunscrit, Sunskrit
• Shanscrit, Shanskrit (archaic)
• Skt. (abbreviation)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit संस्कृत (saṃskṛtá, “perfected, prepared, constructed, refined”). First use appears c. 1617 in the publications of Samuel Purchas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsænskɹɪt/

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Sanskrit (uncountable)

2. A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism.

   Hyponyms: Classical Sanskrit, Vedic Sanskrit

   • 2004, Benjamin W. Fortson IV, “Introduction”, in Indo-European Language and Culture, page 8:

     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.

• Sanskritic
• Sanskritism
• Sanskritist
• Sanskritize
• Sanskritization

Sanskrit (not comparable)

1. Relating to Sanskrit.

   Synonym: Sanskritic

   • 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii:

     Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […] .

• Prakrit
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sanskrit terms
• Appendix:Sanskrit Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Sanskrit

• ISO 639-1 code sa, ISO 639-3 code san (SIL)

• ratskins

Probably borrowed from a European language, ultimately from Sanskrit संस्कृत (saṃskṛta).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑn.skrɪt/
• Hyphenation: San‧skrit

Sanskrit n

1. Sanskrit [from late 18th c.]

   Synonym: Sanskriet

• Sanskritisch

Probably borrowed from a European language, ultimately from Sanskrit संस्कृत (saṃskṛta).

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Sanskrit n (proper noun, strong, genitive Sanskrit or Sanskrits)

1. Sanskrit

   Synonyms: Altindisch, altindische Sprache

• sanskritisch

• “Sanskrit” in Duden online
• “Sanskrit” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• IPA^(key): /sanskɾit/

Sanskrit

1. Sanskrit language

• Sanskritçe