Consider the Arabic language:???? or meaning ‘centralized (masculine, singular)’, from ‘centre’, from ‘plant into the earth, stick up (a lance)’ ( ??? | rkz).???? or meaning ‘o ...
Arabic usually designates one of three main variants: Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic and colloquial or dialectal Arabic.Classical Arabic is the language found in the Quran, used from the per ...
Besides being the lingua franca of South Asia in India and Pakistan, Hindustani is spoken among people of the South Asian diaspora and their descendants in North America, South America, the Caribbean, ...
Main article: History of HindustaniEarly forms of present day Hindustani emerged from the Middle Indo-Aryan apabhramsha vernaculars of North India in the 7th–13th centuries CE. Amir Khusro, who lived ...
Amīr Khusrow was born in Patiyali in Etah, Uttar Pradesh. His father, Amīr Saif-ud-Dīn Mahmūd, was a Turkic officer and a member of the Lachin tribe of Transoxania, themselves belonging to the Kar ...
The glossary survives, in part or whole, in at least six manuscripts: The work may have been included in the Saltair Chaisil "Psalter of Cashel", a now lost manuscript compilation which is thought to ...
The Tenrei banshō meigi or Tenrei banshō myōgi (篆隷萬象名義?, "The myriad things , pronounced, defined, in seal script and clerical script") is the oldest extant Japanese dictionary of Chinese cha ...
Chapter 01: (First chapter of myths) Kami no Yo no Kami no maki.Chapter 02: (Second chapter of myths) Kami no Yo no Shimo no maki.Chapter 03: (Emperor Jimmu) Kan'yamato Iwarebiko no Sumeramikoto.Chapt ...
Kan-Wa jiten (漢和辞典 "Kan Chinese -Wa Japanese dictionary") means "Japanese dictionary of kanji (Chinese characters)". This unique type of monolingual dictionary enters Japanese borrowings of kanji ...
First, it will be useful to introduce some key Japanese terms for dictionaries and collation (ordering of entry words) that the following discussion will be using.The Wiktionary uses English dictionar ...
Amara Sinha (or Simha) (c. AD 375) was a Sanskrit grammarian and poet, of whose personal history hardly anything is known. He is said to have been "one of the nine gems that adorned the throne of Vikr ...
Main article: Amara SinhaAmarasimha was one of the Navaratnas ("nine gems") at the court of Chandragupta II, a Gupta king who reigned around AD 400. Some sources indicate that he belonged to the perio ...
Since the late 18th century, Sanskrit has been transliterated using the Latin alphabet. The system most commonly used today is the IAST (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration), which has ...
The Sanskrit verbal adjective sá?sk?ta- may be translated as "put together, constructed, well or completely formed; refined, adorned, highly elaborated". It is derived from the root sa?-skar- "to ...
Apollonius (Greek: ?πολλ?νιο?), also called "the Sophist", was a famous grammarian, who probably lived towards the end of the 1st century AD and taught in Rome in the time of Tiberius. He wa ...
