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Devanagari

adj · name · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˌdeɪvəˈnɑːɡ(ə)ɹɪ/
  • UK: /ˌdɛvəˈnɑːɡ(ə)ɹɪ/
  • US: /ˌdeɪvəˈnɑɡəɹi/
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1

adj

Meaning 1

Of the Devanagari script or of a Devanagari alphabet.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Nagari

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Devanagari script, Nagari, Nagari script

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: script, syllabary, syllabic script

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit देवनागरी (devanāgarī), compound of दे॒व (devá, “divine”) + नग॑र॒ (nágara, “town; city”).

Across languages

Translations

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: Dewanagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Afrikaans: Devanagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Arabic: دِيفَانَاجَارِي (difanagarī) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Arabic: دِيفَانَاجَارِي (difanajarī) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Arabic: دِيفَانَاغَارِي (difanaḡarī) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Arabic: دِيفَانَاغَارِي (difanagarī) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Armenian: դեւանագարի (dewanagari) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Assamese: দেৱনাগৰী (dewnagori) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Asturian: devanágari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Bengali: দেবনাগরী (debnagri) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Burmese: ဒေဝနာဂရီ (dewa.naga.ri) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Burmese: နာဂရီ (naga.ri) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Burmese: ဒေဝနာဂရီအက္ခရာ (dewa.naga.riakhka.ra) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Burmese: နာဂရီအက္ခရာ (naga.riakhka.ra) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Catalan: devanagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Catalan: devanàgari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Chinese Cantonese: 天城文 — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 天城文 (tiānchéngwén) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Czech: dévanágarí — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Esperanto: devanagario — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Estonian: devanaagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Finnish: devanagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • French: dévanagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • French: devanagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Galician: devanāgarī — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Georgian: დევანაგარი (devanagari) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • German: Devanagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • German: Dewanagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Greek: ντεβανάγκαρι (ntevanágkari) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Gujarati: દેવનાગરી (devnāgrī) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Hebrew: דֶּוַונַאגַּרִי (devanagarí) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Hindi: देवनागरी (devnāgrī) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Hindi: नागरी (nāgrī) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Hindi: नागर (nāgar) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Hungarian: dévanágari írás — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Indonesian: dewanagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Irish: Déiveanágraí — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Italian: devanagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Japanese: デーヴァナーガリー (dēvanāgarī) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Kannada: ದೇವನಾಗರಿ (dēvanāgari) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Khmer: ទេវនាគរី (teivniəkĕəʼrii) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Korean: 데바나가리 (debanagari) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Latvian: dēvanāgarī — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Latvian: dievanāgarī — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Lithuanian: devanagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Malayalam: ദേവനാഗരി (dēvanāgari) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Marathi: देवनागरी (devnāgrī) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Nepali: देवनागरी (devanāgarī) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Pali: devanāgarī — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Pashto: دېوناگري — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Persian: دوناگری (devanâgari) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Persian: دیواناگری (dêvânâgari) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Polish: dewanagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Portuguese: devanágari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Punjabi: ਦੇਵਨਾਗਰੀ (devnāgarī) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Romani: devnagrī — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Romani: devǎnagǎrī — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Romanian: devanagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Russian: девана́гари (dɛvanágari) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Sanskrit: देवनागरी (devanāgarī) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Sanskrit: नागर (nāgara) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Serbo-Croatian: девана̀гари — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Serbo-Croatian: devanàgari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Sindhi: ديوناگري (deonāgre) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Spanish: devanágari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Spanish: devanagarí — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Spanish: devanagari — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Tajik: деванагарӣ (devanagari) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Tamil: தேவநாகரி (tēvanākari) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Telugu: దేవనాగరి (dēvanāgari) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Thai: เทวนาครี (tee-wá-naa-ká-rii) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
  • Urdu: دیوناگری (deonāgarī) — abugida alphabet of India and Nepal
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