Sanskrit

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• UK, US: /ˈsænskɹɪt/
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• South-Asia: /sənˈskrɪt̪/
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Learned borrowing from Hindi संस्कृत (sanskŕt), itself a learned borrowing from Sanskrit सं॒स्कृ॒त (saṃskṛtá, “perfected; prepared; constructed; refined”). First use appears c. 1617 in the publications of Samuel Purchas.

124 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: sanskritishte — language
• Amharic: ሳንስክሪት (sansəkrit) — language
• Arabic: سَنْسْكْرِيتِيّ (sanskrītiyy) — language
• Aragonese: sanscrito — language
• Armenian: սանսկրիտ (sanskrit) — language
• Assamese: সংস্কৃত (xoṅskrit) — language
• Asturian: sánscritu — language
• Basque: sanskrito — language
• Belarusian: санскры́т (sanskrýt) — language
• Bengali: সংস্কৃত (śoṅskrito) — language
• Central Bikol: Sanskrito — language
• Breton: sañskriteg — language
• Bulgarian: санскри́т (sanskrít) — language
• Burmese: သင်္သကရိုက် (sangsa.ka.ruik) — language
• Burmese: သက္ကဋ (sakka.ta.) — language
• Burmese: သက္ကတ (sakka.ta.) — language
• Catalan: sànscrit — language
• Cebuano: pinulongang Sanskrito — language
• Chinese: 梵語 /梵语 (fànyǔ) — language
• Chinese: 梵文 (fànwén) — language
• Cornish: Sanskrytek — language
• Corsican: sanscritu — language
• Czech: sanskrt — language
• Danish: sanskrit — language
• Dhivehi: ސަންސްކްރިއްތް (san̊sk̊ritt̊) — language
• Dutch: Sanskriet — language
• Esperanto: Sanskrito — language
• Estonian: sanskriti keel — language
• Faroese: sanskrit — language
• Finnish: sanskriitti — language
• French: sanskrit — language
• West-Frisian: Sanskryt — language
• Galician: sánscrito — language
• Georgian: სანსკრიტი (sansḳriṭi) — language
• German: Sanskrit — language
• German: sanskritisch — language
• Greek: σανσκριτικά (sanskritiká) — language
• Gujarati: સંસ્કૃત (sãskŕt) — language
• Hebrew: סַנְסְקְרִיט (sanskrít) — language
• Hindi: संस्कृत (sanskŕt) — language
• Hungarian: szanszkrit — language
• Icelandic: sanskrít — language
• Ido: Sanskrito — language
• Indonesian: bahasa Sanskerta — language
• Interlingua: sanscrito — language
• Irish: Sanscrait — language
• Italian: sanscrito — language
• Japanese: サンスクリット (sansukuritto) — language
• Japanese: 梵語 (bongo) — language
• Javanese: basa Sangskreta — language
• Kannada: ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತ (saṃskṛta) — language
• Kapampangan: Sangaskulíta — language
• Kashmiri: سَنٛسکرِت (sanskrit) — language
• Kazakh: санскрит (sanskrit) — language
• Khmer: សំស្ក្រឹត (sangskrət) — language
• Korean: 산스크리트어 (sanseukeuriteueo) — language
• Korean: 범어 (beomeo) — language
• Lao: ສັກຕະ (sak ta) — language
• Latin: lingua Sanscrita — language
• Latvian: sanskrits — language
• Ligurian: lengua sànscrïa — language
• Limburgish: Sanskriet — language
• Lithuanian: sanskritas — language
• Low German: Sanskrit — language
• Macedonian: санскрит (sanskrit) — language
• Malagasy: sanskrity — language
• Malay: Sanskrit — language
• Malayalam: സംസ്കൃതം (saṁskr̥taṁ) — language
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: সংস্কৃত — language
• Marathi: संस्कृत (sauskŕt) — language
• Mongolian: самгарди (samgardi) — language
• Nahuatl: sanscritotlahtōlli — language
• Nepali: संस्कृत (sanskr̥t) — language
• Newar: संस्कृत (saṃskr̥ta) — language
• Norwegian: sanskrit — language
• Occitan: sanscrit — language
• Odia: ସଂସ୍କୃତ (saṁskruta) — language
• Oromo: Saaniskiriit — language
• Persian: سانسکریت (sânskrit) — language
• Persian: سهاسکرت (sahâskert) — language
• Polish: sanskryt — language
• Portuguese: sânscrito — language
• Prakrit: 𑀲𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀬 (sakkaya) — language
• Punjabi: ਸੰਸਕ੍ਰਿਤ (sanskrit) — language
• Punjabi: سنسکرت (snskrt) — language
• Quechua: sanskrit simi — language
• Vlax-Romani: संस्कृतीकानी — language
• Romanian: limba sanscrită — language
• Russian: санскри́т (sanskrít) — language
• Samogitian: sanskrita kalba — language
• Sanskrit: संस्कृत (saṃskṛta) — language
• Sanskrit: देवभाषा (devabhāṣā) — language
• Scots: sanskrit — language
• Serbo-Croatian: са̀нскртскӣ — language
• Serbo-Croatian: sànskrtskī — language
• Sicilian: sanscritu — language
• Sicilian: sànscritu — language
• Sindhi: سنسڪرت (s̃skrt) — language
• Slovak: sanskrit — language
• Slovak: sanskrt — language
• Slovene: sanskrt — language
• Lower Sorbian: sanskrit — language
• Upper Sorbian: sanskrit — language
• Spanish: sánscrito — language
• Sundanese: basa Sangsakerta — language
• Swahili: Kisanskrit — language
• Swedish: sanskrit — language
• Tagalog: Sanskrito — language
• Tamil: சமசுகிருதம் (camacukirutam) — language
• Tamil: ஆரியம் (āriyam) — language
• Tamil: வடமொழி (vaṭamoḻi) — language
• Telugu: సంస్కృతము (saṁskr̥tamu) — language
• Telugu: సంస్కృతం (saṁskr̥taṁ) — language
• Thai: สันสกฤต (sǎn-sà-grìt) — language
• Tibetan: ལེགས་སྦྱར — language
• Tibetan: ལེགས་སྦྱར་སྐད (legs sbyar skad) — language
• Turkish: Sanskrit — language
• Ukrainian: санскри́т (sanskrýt) — language
• Urdu: سنسکرت (sanskrit) — language
• Vietnamese: tiếng Phạn — language
• Vietnamese: Phạn ngữ — language
• Waray-Waray: Sinanskrit — language
• Welsh: Sansgrit — language
• Yiddish: סאַנסקריט (sanskrit) — language