мантра
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Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit मन्त्र (mantra, literally “instrument of thought”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *mántram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mántram, from Proto-Indo-European *mén-tro-m, from *men- (“to think”) + *-trom (instrumental noun suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
ма́нтра • (mántra) f inan (genitive ма́нтры, nominative plural ма́нтры, genitive plural мантр, relational adjective мантри́ческий)
Declension
Declension of ма́нтра (inan fem-form hard-stem accent-a)
Pre-reform declension of ма́нтра (inan fem-form hard-stem accent-a)
Further reading
- мантра in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
ма̏нтра f (Latin spelling mȁntra)
- mantra (all senses)
Ukrainian
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit मन्त्र (mantra, literally “instrument of thought”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *mántram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mántram, from Proto-Indo-European *mén-tro-m, from *men- (“to think”) + *-trom (instrumental noun suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
ма́нтра • (mántra) f inan (genitive ма́нтри, nominative plural ма́нтри, genitive plural мантр)
Declension
Declension of ма́нтра (inan hard fem-form accent-a)
Further reading
- Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2017), “мантра”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. (in Ukrainian), volumes 8 (л – мішу́рний), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
- “мантра”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
- “мантра”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
- “мантра”, in Словник.ua (in Ukrainian)