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Devanagari_alphabet

Devanagari alphabet

English

Proper noun

Devanagari alphabet

(nonstandard) the Devanagari writing system

devanagari_alphabet

Devanagari

See also: devanagari, devanágari, and Dēvanāgarī

English

Adjective

Devanagari ‎(not comparable)

Of the Devanagari script or of a Devanagari alphabet.

Proper noun

Devanagari ‎(uncountable)

An abugida script used to write several Indian languages, mainly Sanskrit and Hindi, but also Marathi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Bihari, Bhili, Konkani, and Bhojpuri. It is also used to write Nepali in Nepal.

Translations

an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal

Arabic: دِيفَانَاجَارِي m ‎(difanagarī), دِيفَانَاجَارِي m ‎(difanajarī), دِيفَانَاغَارِي m ‎(difanaḡarī), دِيفَانَاغَارِي m ‎(difanagarī)
Armenian: դևանագարի ‎(dewanagari)
Bengali: দেবনাগরী লিপি ‎(debnagri lipi), দেবনাগরী ‎(debnagri)
Catalan: Devanagari m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 天城文 ‎(tin¹ sing⁴ man⁴)

Mandarin: 天城文 (zh) ‎(tiānchéngwén)
French: dévanagari (fr) m
Galician: devanāgarī m
Georgian: დევანაგარი ‎(devanagari)
German: Devanagari (de) f, Dewanagari f
Hindi: देवनागरी (hi) f ‎(devnāgrī)
Hungarian: dévanágari (hu), dévanágari írás
Italian: devanagari (it) m, f
Japanese: デーヴァナーガリー (ja) ‎(dēvanāgarī)

Korean: 데바나가리 ‎(debanagari)
Latin: Devanagari
Latvian: Dēvanāgarī, Dievanāgarī
Lithuanian: Devanagari, Devanagari raštas m
Marathi: देवनागरी (mr) ‎(devnāgrī)
Nepali: देवनागरी ‎(devnāgrī), देवनागरी लिपि ‎(devnāgrī lipi)
Persian: دوناگری ‎(devanâgari)
Polish: dewanagari
Portuguese: devanágari (pt) m
Romani: Devnagrī, Devǎnagǎrī
Russian: девана́гари (ru) n ‎(dɛvanágari)
Sanskrit: देवनागरी (sa) f ‎(devánāgarī)
Spanish: devanágari m, devanagarí m
Thai: เทวนาครี ‎(taywánaakáree), อักษรเทวนาครี ‎(àksŏn taywánaakáree)
Urdu: دیوناگری f ‎(devnāgrī)

See also

Nagari / नागरी