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单词 Sanskrit
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Definition of Sanskrit in English:

Sanskrit

noun ˈsanskrɪtˈsænˌskrɪt
mass noun
  • An ancient Indo-European language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written and from which many northern Indian (Indic) languages are derived.

    梵语(印度的古印欧语言,印度教的经文和印度的古典史诗均用梵语写成,印度北部的许多语言亦来自梵语)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He took theatre, hitherto marked out for the elite who could understand Sanskrit, to the laymen by using their language.
    • A well-known orchid genus vanda, has its name derived from Sanskrit.
    • My dad had taught me an ancient royal language, Sanskrit, years before.
    • The language, Gujarati, comes from Sanskrit - an ancient language.
    • The word yoga comes from the ancient Indian language Sanskrit, and it means union.
    • I began learning to speak Kellian, a very elaborate language, similar in style to ancient Sanskrit, with great difficulty.
    • They're so unintelligible that they might as well be written in Sanskrit.
    • The ancient Indian scriptures written in Sanskrit becomes familiar ground once the language barrier is broken, he adds.
    • Ambitious for he knew not what, he continued writing poetry, learning Sanskrit, riding horses, falling in love.
    • We sat down in front of a friend of Supawan's family, who speaks Sanskrit (the language for prayer and meditation), and a vat of cold water.
    • A group called Dom belonged to the aboriginal peoples of India but had adopted the Hindu religion and an Indo-Aryan language derived from Sanskrit.
    • The cultures of the Sinti and the Roma are related, just like their language, which originates from one of the oldest languages, Sanskrit.
    • The fact that the text was written in Sanskrit did not facilitate its dissemination.
    • I was seated next to a highly educated and enlightened Christian priest who was an authority on Hindu scriptures, Upanishads and Sanskrit.
    • She is also concerned that those of her generation do not care to learn a classical language like Sanskrit.
    • It was written in Sanskrit, now infrequently known in India, and translations brought about by the British were highly selective and at times ‘of no value’.
    • There are also translations from Sanskrit in Kharosti script.
    • I am open to suggestions as long as they are written in Sanskrit.
    • They learn Hindu chants in the ancient language, Sanskrit.
    • This classical Sanskrit became the language of the priestly class and later of the governing class.

Sanskrit was spoken in India roughly 1200–400 BC, and continues in use as a language of religion and scholarship. It is written from left to right in the Devanagari script. The suggestion by Sir William Jones(1746–94) of its common origin with Latin and Greek was a major advance in the development of historical linguistics

adjective ˈsanskrɪtˈsænˌskrɪt
  • Relating to Sanskrit.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The second fellowship is aimed at budding Sanskrit scholars.
    • In the second part, the author gives a fairly detailed sketch of six Sanskrit luminaries whose formal education proved no yardstick to measure their scholarship.
    • Sessions begin with a Sanskrit invocation as ‘an exercise for the vocal chords.’
    • There was one lecturer each for Persian and philosophy but they have not been appointed for two years while the only Sanskrit lecturer has been absent for one and half years.
    • At the Mission he studied the sacred Sanskrit texts, memorising slokas that he could recite well into his eighties.
    • Being born in a family of traditional Sanskrit scholars, and having a scholar who was an authority on Valmiki and Kalidasa for a father helped too.
    • She had identified the universal appeal of Koodiyattam before Japanese scholars discovered that forms like Noh shared a common philosophy with the Sanskrit theatre form.
    • The profile of the band mentions that their influences range from classical metal, hard rock, blues and jazz and even Sanskrit rock.
    • I remember a conversation with a South Asian student in Sanskrit class in 1990.
    • A catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts was published by the institute in 1999.
    • Linguistic ability seems to have firmly been ingrained in Narang's family for his wife teaches Hindi and his son is well on the way of being a Sanskrit scholar.
    • I mean can you believe the fact that I have worked with Sanskrit pandits for some 11 years now and I still feel that there is a lot more that I have to learn.
    • Local Sanskrit scholars have given us a whole bouquet of meanings for the word, or words, ‘Varana-vata’.
    • ‘I am planning to adapt a Sanskrit play into my production by 2004’.
    • ‘Malavikagnimitram’ is the least performed of Sanskrit plays.
    • It is the sound effects that retain the child's attention and so the child does not tire of repeating nursery rhymes, he said, quoting a Sanskrit verse.
    • She knew the power of imagination and went beyond Sanskrit theatre in her unfolding of the Ramayana, through Bharatanatayam.
    • But the Sanskrit plays still survive in Kerala, though the performance has been modified by regional modes and peculiarities.
    • This tradition of Sanskrit theatre, now performed only in Kerala, is usually performed by a section of upper class Hindus, known as the Chakyars.
    • The Sanskrit drama, ‘Karnabharam’ finds a place on the site.

Sanskrit was spoken in India roughly 1200–400 BC, and continues in use as a language of religion and scholarship. It is written from left to right in the Devanagari script. The suggestion by Sir William Jones(1746–94) of its common origin with Latin and Greek was a major advance in the development of historical linguistics

Derivatives

  • Sanskritic

  • adjective sanˈskrɪtɪk
    • It activates the structural neatness of the Sanskritic Bengali alphabet for the teacher and the child, and undermines rote learning by encouraging the teacher to jumble the structure in course of teaching at the same time.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The total lack of historical sense is so characteristic, the whole source of Sanskritic literature is darkened by the shadow of this defect, suffering as it does from an entire absence of exact chronology.
      • Rasa can mean mood or feeling in Sanskritic languages, and mudra can be meaningful hand gesture.
      • In the past, old elites bent on ‘improvement’ often chose to write their newspapers in ornate language and Sanskritic or classical styles, what they regarded as ‘fine prose’.
      • Only male priests can make this offering in the Sanskritic temple context but women have retained this important right in the Dravidian, non-Sanskritic rituals.
  • Sanskritist

  • noun
    • Several Tamil and Malayali Sanskritists recite it with aplomb and attribute it to Rama who is supposed to have responded in these words to Lakshmana when requested to stay on in Lanka, the city-of-gold, instead of returning to Ayodhya.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His works which were translated in 1879 in French and appeared in the Annales d' Extreme Orient had a tremendous impact in France and produced in its wake a team of French Sanskritists.
      • The new member of the gang was later scolded by the daughter of a renowned scholar and Sanskritist.
      • His statement was printed in 1890 in the famous edition of Rigveda edited by the German Sanskritist.
      • Raja, a scholarly Sanskritist, wrote determinedly of the need to make an Indian English for himself, and his Kanthapura has been much praised.

Origin

From Sanskrit saṃskṛta 'composed, elaborated', from saṃ 'together' + kṛ 'make' + the past participle ending -ta.

Definition of Sanskrit in US English:

Sanskrit

nounˈsænˌskrɪtˈsanˌskrit
  • An ancient Indo-European language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written and from which many northern Indian (Indic) languages are derived.

    梵语(印度的古印欧语言,印度教的经文和印度的古典史诗均用梵语写成,印度北部的许多语言亦来自梵语)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The language, Gujarati, comes from Sanskrit - an ancient language.
    • I began learning to speak Kellian, a very elaborate language, similar in style to ancient Sanskrit, with great difficulty.
    • Ambitious for he knew not what, he continued writing poetry, learning Sanskrit, riding horses, falling in love.
    • She is also concerned that those of her generation do not care to learn a classical language like Sanskrit.
    • A group called Dom belonged to the aboriginal peoples of India but had adopted the Hindu religion and an Indo-Aryan language derived from Sanskrit.
    • A well-known orchid genus vanda, has its name derived from Sanskrit.
    • It was written in Sanskrit, now infrequently known in India, and translations brought about by the British were highly selective and at times ‘of no value’.
    • He took theatre, hitherto marked out for the elite who could understand Sanskrit, to the laymen by using their language.
    • We sat down in front of a friend of Supawan's family, who speaks Sanskrit (the language for prayer and meditation), and a vat of cold water.
    • The fact that the text was written in Sanskrit did not facilitate its dissemination.
    • This classical Sanskrit became the language of the priestly class and later of the governing class.
    • They learn Hindu chants in the ancient language, Sanskrit.
    • They're so unintelligible that they might as well be written in Sanskrit.
    • I am open to suggestions as long as they are written in Sanskrit.
    • I was seated next to a highly educated and enlightened Christian priest who was an authority on Hindu scriptures, Upanishads and Sanskrit.
    • My dad had taught me an ancient royal language, Sanskrit, years before.
    • The cultures of the Sinti and the Roma are related, just like their language, which originates from one of the oldest languages, Sanskrit.
    • There are also translations from Sanskrit in Kharosti script.
    • The ancient Indian scriptures written in Sanskrit becomes familiar ground once the language barrier is broken, he adds.
    • The word yoga comes from the ancient Indian language Sanskrit, and it means union.

Sanskrit was spoken in India roughly 1200–400 BC, and continues in use as a language of religion and scholarship. It is written from left to right in the Devanagari script. The suggestion by Sir William Jones(1746–94) of its common origin with Latin and Greek was a major advance in the development of historical linguistics

adjectiveˈsænˌskrɪtˈsanˌskrit
  • Relating to Sanskrit.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Linguistic ability seems to have firmly been ingrained in Narang's family for his wife teaches Hindi and his son is well on the way of being a Sanskrit scholar.
    • The Sanskrit drama, ‘Karnabharam’ finds a place on the site.
    • ‘I am planning to adapt a Sanskrit play into my production by 2004’.
    • Sessions begin with a Sanskrit invocation as ‘an exercise for the vocal chords.’
    • Local Sanskrit scholars have given us a whole bouquet of meanings for the word, or words, ‘Varana-vata’.
    • The profile of the band mentions that their influences range from classical metal, hard rock, blues and jazz and even Sanskrit rock.
    • I mean can you believe the fact that I have worked with Sanskrit pandits for some 11 years now and I still feel that there is a lot more that I have to learn.
    • I remember a conversation with a South Asian student in Sanskrit class in 1990.
    • There was one lecturer each for Persian and philosophy but they have not been appointed for two years while the only Sanskrit lecturer has been absent for one and half years.
    • In the second part, the author gives a fairly detailed sketch of six Sanskrit luminaries whose formal education proved no yardstick to measure their scholarship.
    • She knew the power of imagination and went beyond Sanskrit theatre in her unfolding of the Ramayana, through Bharatanatayam.
    • At the Mission he studied the sacred Sanskrit texts, memorising slokas that he could recite well into his eighties.
    • She had identified the universal appeal of Koodiyattam before Japanese scholars discovered that forms like Noh shared a common philosophy with the Sanskrit theatre form.
    • It is the sound effects that retain the child's attention and so the child does not tire of repeating nursery rhymes, he said, quoting a Sanskrit verse.
    • This tradition of Sanskrit theatre, now performed only in Kerala, is usually performed by a section of upper class Hindus, known as the Chakyars.
    • Being born in a family of traditional Sanskrit scholars, and having a scholar who was an authority on Valmiki and Kalidasa for a father helped too.
    • ‘Malavikagnimitram’ is the least performed of Sanskrit plays.
    • But the Sanskrit plays still survive in Kerala, though the performance has been modified by regional modes and peculiarities.
    • A catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts was published by the institute in 1999.
    • The second fellowship is aimed at budding Sanskrit scholars.

Sanskrit was spoken in India roughly 1200–400 BC, and continues in use as a language of religion and scholarship. It is written from left to right in the Devanagari script. The suggestion by Sir William Jones(1746–94) of its common origin with Latin and Greek was a major advance in the development of historical linguistics

Origin

From Sanskrit saṃskṛta ‘composed, elaborated’, from saṃ ‘together’ + kṛ ‘make’ + the past participle ending -ta.

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