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Hindi
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Classical Sanskrit रामायण (rāmāyaṇa).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /ɾɑː.mɑː.jəɳ/,
Proper noun
रामायण • (rāmāyaṇ) f or m (Urdu spelling رَامَایَن or رَامَائِن)
- (Hinduism, literature) Ramayana
Declension
Declension of रामायण (sg-only fem cons-stem // masc cons-stem)
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रामायण
rāmāyaṇ
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रामायण
rāmāyaṇ
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रामायण
rāmāyaṇ
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Further reading
- Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “रामायण”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 168
- Platts, John T. (1884) “रामायण”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 583
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “रामायण”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 862
- “راماین”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
Prakrit
Proper noun
रामायण (rāmāyaṇa) n
- Devanagari script form of 𑀭𑀸𑀫𑀸𑀬𑀡
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
Compound of राम (rāma, “Rāma”) + अयन (ayana, “going”), literally “going of Rāma”.
Pronunciation
Noun
रामायण • (rāmāyaṇa) stem, n
- (Classical Sanskrit, Hinduism, literature) Ramayana
Declension
Descendants
Learned borrowings from रामायण (rāmāyaṇa)
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899) “रामायण”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 878.
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “rāmāyaṇa”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “रामायण”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 1339