अन्त

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ənt̪/,

अन्त • (ant) m

1. Alternative spelling of अंत (ant)

अन्त m or n

1. Devanagari script form of anta (“end”)
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎ (overall work in Pali), page 2; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     तत्थ अक्खरेसु अकारादीसु ओदन्ता अत्थ सरा नाम होन्ति।

     Tattha akkharesu akārādīsu odantā aṭṭha sarā nāma honti.

     There amongst the letters are eight vowels, namely starting with 'a' and ending with 'o'

अन्त n

1. Devanagari script form of anta (“intestine”)

अन्त

1. Devanagari script form of anta (“extreme”)
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎ (overall work in Pali), page 285; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     गमु इच्चेदस्स धातुस्स अन्तो मकारो च्छो होति वा सब्बासु पच्चयविभत्तीसु।

     Gamuiccetassa dhātussa anto makāro ccho hoti vā sabbāsu paccayavibhattīsu.

     The final m of the root gamu is optionally changed into cch, if any suffix or verbal termination follows:

2. Devanagari script form of anta (“interior”)

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-o-s (“forehead; front; edge”). Cognate with English end.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́n.tɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɐn̪.t̪ɐ/

अन्त • (ánta) stem, m

1. end, conclusion, termination
2. limit, boundary
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.108.5:

     इ॒मा गावः॑ सरमे॒ या ऐच्छः॒ परि॑ दि॒वो अन्ता॑न्त्सुभगे॒ पत॑न्ती ।
     कस्त॑ एना॒ अव॑ सृजा॒दयु॑ध्व्यु॒तास्माक॒मायु॑धा सन्ति ति॒ग्मा ॥

     imā́ gā́vaḥ sarame yā́ aícchaḥ pári divó ántāntsubhage pátantī.
     kásta enā áva sṛjādáyudhvyutā́smā́kamā́yudhā santi tigmā́.

     These are the kine which, Saramā, thou seekest, flying, O Blest One, to the ends of heaven.
     Who will loose these for thee without a battle? Yea, and sharp-pointed are our war-like weapons.

3. border, edge, precinct

• अनन्त (anantá, “endless”)
• अन्तक (ántaka, “death”)
• अन्तम (antamá, “last”)
• अन्त्य (ántya, “located at the end”)

• अन्ति (ánti)

अन्त • (anta) stem

1. near
2. last
3. handsome, lovely
4. lowest, worst
5. youngest

• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “अन्त”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Monier Williams (1899) “अन्त”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 42, column 3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “ánta-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 75
• Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “ánta-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 34-35