अपभ्रंश

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[edit] Sanskrit

[edit] Noun

अपभ्रंश (apa-bhraṃśá) m.

  1. falling down, a fall
  2. a corrupted form of a word, corruption
  3. ungrammatical language
  4. the most corrupt of the Prakrit dialects

[edit] Declension

[edit] References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898, page 0050