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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The alphabet in which Sanskrit and many modern Indian languages are written.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Sanskrit alphabet: same as Nagari.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The script or characters in which Sanskrit and Hindi are written.

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  • adjective Of the Devanagari script or of a Devanagari alphabet.
  • noun An abugida script used to write several Indian languages, mainly Sanskrit and Hindi, but also Marathi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Bihari, Bhili, Konkani, and Bhojpuri. It is also used to write Nepali in Nepal.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Sanskrit devanāgarī, royal city writing (from its supposedly having been invented in Pataliputra, a royal city in India) : deva-, divine, royal; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots + nāgarī, feminine of nāgara-, of a city (from nagaram, city, probably of Dravidian origin).]

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From Sanskrit देवनागरी (Devánāgarī), compound of देव (devá, "half-human — demi-divine") + नगर (nágara, "town, city").

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