गाङ्गट

Sanskrit

Etymology

Borrowed from a substrate language.

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːŋ.ɡɐ.ʈɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːŋ.ɡɐ.ʈɐ/

Noun

गाङ्गट • (gāṅgaṭa) stem, ?

1. shrimp, prawn

Descendants

• Bengali: গাঙ্গট (gaṅgoṭ)
• Nepali: गङटो (gaṅaṭo)
• Sindhi: gā̃gaṭu

  Arabic script: گانگَٽُ

  Devanagari script: गांगटु

References

• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “गाङ्गट”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page गाङ्गटः,_गाङ्गटेयः
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gāṅgaṭa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press