Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gāndhārī

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gand-hari
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An Indo-Aryan language formerly spoken in what is now northern India and eastern Pakistan; a northwestern Prakrit in which Gandharan Buddhist texts were compiled.

Example Sentences

"The Gāndhārī Dharmapada. We have the remains of two manuscripts of a Dharmapada in Gāndhārī, a Prakrit from Gandhāra (an area of what is now northwest India, Pakistan and a large part of Afghanistan)."
"The largest and most interesting of these fragments (no. 1), with four partial lines of text on each side, is written not in Gāndhārī or even in Sanskritized Gāndhārī like that of the Schøyen fragments, but in more or less standard Sanskrit."

Etymology

From Sanskrit गान्धारी (gāndhārī).

Origin

Source language: Sanskrit

Word Breakdown

Root: गान्धारी

Questions

What does gāndhārī mean?: An Indo-Aryan language formerly spoken in what is now northern India and eastern Pakistan; a northwestern Prakrit in which Gandharan Buddhist texts were compiled.
Where does gāndhārī come from?: It is traced to Sanskrit.

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