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Sanskritism en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English Sanskrit Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Sanskritism From Sanskrit + -ism.

Meanings

1. A word or phrase borrowed from Sanskrit for modern usage in India, Sri Lanka and elsewhere, especially in various Indo-Aryan languages.
   • My opinion as regards Bengali is that Primary Instruction for the lower classes of people, who are for the most part ethnically allied to the Hindoos should be in the Bengali language, purified, however, from the super-structure of Sanskritism of learned Hindoos and supplemented by the numerous words of Arabic and Persian origin... 1991, Sisir Kumar Das, Sahitya Akademi, A History of Indian Literature, page 251, quoting Nawab Abdul Latif, the founder of the Mohammedan Literary Society, 1882

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Synonyms

Prakritism