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Devanagari

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De·va·na·ga·ri  (dv-näg-r)
n.
The alphabet in which Sanskrit and many modern Indian languages are written. Also called Nagari.
[Sanskrit devangar, royal city writing (from its supposedly having been invented in Pataliputra, a royal city in India) : deva-, divine, royal; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots + ngar, feminine of ngara-, of a city (from nagaram, city, probably of Dravidian origin).]
Devanagari [ˌdeɪvəˈnɑːgərɪ]
n
(Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) a syllabic script in which Sanskrit, Hindi, and other modern languages of India are written
[from Sanskrit: alphabet of the gods, from deva god + nagari an Indian alphabet]
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Noun1.Devanagari - a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi
Devanagari script, Nagari, Nagari script
script - a particular orthography or writing system
syllabary, syllabic script - a writing system whose characters represent syllables


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