visarga

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit विसर्ग (visarga).

Noun

visarga (plural visargas)

  1. (phonology, Sanskrit grammar) the voiceless h in Sanskrit which repeats echo-like the preceding vowel after itself

Translations

See also

  • anusvara
  • Symbols for visarga in various scripts:
    • ः (Devanagari)
    • ঃ (Bengali)
    • ਃ (Gurmukhi)
    • ઃ (Gujarati)
    • ଃ (Oriya)
    • ஃ (Tamil)
    • ః (Telugu)
    • ಃ (Kannada)
    • ഃ (Malayalam)
    • ཿ (Tibetan)
    • း (Burmese)
    • ះ (Khmer)
    • 𑄂 (Chakma)

Anagrams

Portuguese

Noun

visarga m (plural visargas)

  1. (Sanskrit phonetics) visarga (voiceless h in Sanskrit)
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