Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dogra

/ˈdoʊɡɾə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English

Syllables
do-gra
IPA
/ˈdoʊɡɾə/
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of the Dogra script or of a Dogra alphabet.

name

An abugida script (nearly extinct) used to write Dogri, a language originating in India.

Uncountable

noun

A member of an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group living primarily in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and speaking the Dogri language.

Etymology

From Dogri डोगरा (ḍogrā), from Sanskrit द्विगर्त (dvigarta). The script was officially referred to as Sanskrit द्विगर्त अक्षर (dvigarta akṣara, “Dogra letters”). Another indigenous name for the script is Dogri [script needed] (dogra akkharor, “New Dogra letters”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: डोगरा, द्विगर्त

Usage

Inflected Forms

Dogras (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce dogra?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdoʊɡɾə/.
What does dogra mean?
Of the Dogra script or of a Dogra alphabet.
Where does dogra come from?
It is traced to Sanskrit.

How to pronounce dogra

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