Devanagari

See also: devanagari, devanágari, and Dēvanāgarī

English

Devanagari script (vowels top, consonants bottom) in the Chandas font.

Etymology

From Sanskrit देवनागरी (devanāgarī), compound of देव (deva, “deity, divine”) + नगर (nagara, “town, city”). By surface analysis, Deva +‎ Nagari.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdeɪvəˈnɑːɡ(ə)ɹɪ/, /ˌdɛvəˈnɑːɡ(ə)ɹɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌdeɪvəˈnɑɡəɹi/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

Devanagari (not comparable)

1. Of the Devanagari script or of a Devanagari alphabet.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 251:

     The etymologies gave words from Hindustani in the Devanagari script accompanied by transliterations in parentheses.

Derived terms

• Devanagari numeral

Proper noun

Devanagari

1. An abugida script used to write many languages originating in India and Nepal, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Maithili, Bhili, Konkani, Bhojpuri, and Nepali.

Synonyms

• Devanagari alphabet (nonstandard)
• Nagari (historical)
• abbreviations: (ISO 15924) Deva

Related terms

• Deva
• Nagari
• Nandinagari

Translations

abugida alphabet of India and Nepal

• Afrikaans: Dewanagari (af), Devanagari
• Arabic: دِيفَانَاجَارِي m (difanagarī), دِيفَانَاجَارِي m (difanajarī), دِيفَانَاغَارِي m (difanaḡarī), دِيفَانَاغَارِي m (difanagarī)
• Armenian: դևանագարի (hy) (dewanagari)
• Assamese: দেৱনাগৰী (dewnagori)
• Asturian: devanágari (ast)
• Bengali: দেবনাগরী (bn) (debnagri)
• Burmese: ဒေဝနာဂရီ (my) (dewa.naga.ri), နာဂရီ (my) (naga.ri), ဒေဝနာဂရီအက္ခရာ (dewa.naga.riakhka.ra), နာဂရီအက္ခရာ (naga.riakhka.ra)
• Catalan: devanagari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 天城文 (tin¹ sing⁴ man⁴)

  Mandarin: 天城文 (zh) (tiānchéngwén)

• Czech: dévanágarí
• Esperanto: devanagario
• Estonian: devanaagari
• Finnish: devanagari
• French: dévanagari (fr) f or m, devanagari (fr) f or m
• Galician: devanāgarī m
• Georgian: დევანაგარი (devanagari)
• German: Devanagari (de) f, Dewanagari (de) f
• Greek: ντεβανάγκαρι (el) n (ntevanágkari)
• Gujarati: દેવનાગરી (devnāgrī)
• Hebrew: דֶּוַונַאגַּרִי m (devanagarí)
• Hindi: देवनागरी (hi) f (devnāgrī), नागरी (hi) f (nāgrī), नागर (hi) m (nāgar)
• Hungarian: dévanágari írás
• Indonesian: dewanagari (id)
• Irish: Déiveanágraí m
• Italian: devanagari (it) f or m
• Japanese: デーヴァナーガリー (ja) (dēvanāgarī)
• Kannada: ದೇವನಾಗರಿ (kn) (dēvanāgari)
• Khmer: ទេវនាគរី (km) (teiwniəkĕəʼrii)
• Korean: 데바나가리 (debanagari)
• Latvian: dēvanāgarī f, dievanāgarī f
• Lithuanian: devanagari f
• Malayalam: ദേവനാഗരി (ml) (dēvanāgari)
• Marathi: देवनागरी (mr) f (devnāgrī)
• Nepali: देवनागरी (ne) (devanāgarī)
• Pali: devanāgarī
• Pashto: دېوناگري
• Persian: دوناگری (devanâgari), دیواناگری (dêvânâgari)
• Polish: dewanagari (pl) n
• Portuguese: devanágari (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਦੇਵਨਾਗਰੀ (devnāgarī)
• Romani: devnagrī, devǎnagǎrī
• Romanian: devanagari f
• Russian: девана́гари (ru) n (dɛvanágari)
• Sanskrit: देवनागरी (sa) f (devanāgarī), नागर (sa) m (nāgara)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: девана̀гари m

  Roman: devanàgari (sh) m

• Sindhi: ديوناگري
• Spanish: devanágari m, devanagarí m, devanagari (es) m
• Tajik: деванагарӣ (devanagarī)
• Tamil: தேவநாகரி (ta) (tēvanākari)
• Telugu: దేవనాగరి (te) (dēvanāgari)
• Thai: เทวนาครี (th) (tee-wá-naa-ká-rii)
• Urdu: دیوناگری f (deonāgarī)

Further reading

• Devanagari on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “‖Devanagari, a. and sb.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 279, column 1.