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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit विसर्ग (visarga).
Noun
visarga (plural visargas)
- (phonology, Sanskrit grammar) the voiceless terminal h in Sanskrit
1934, P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri, History of Grammatical Theories in Tamil and Their Relation to the Grammatical Literature in Sanskrit:XXV of Centamil published by the Tamil Sangam at Madura that in ancient times āytam was represented by visarga.
Translations
voiceless h in Sanskrit
- Bengali: বিসর্গ (bn) (biśorgo), (symbol) ঃ (bn)
- Burmese: ရှေ့ကပေါက် (my) (hre.ka.pauk), ဝစ္စပေါက် (my) (wacca.pauk), ရှေ့ဆီး (my) (hre.hci:), (symbol) း (my)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 止韻／止韵 (zhǐyùn)
- Finnish: visarga (fi)
- French: visarga (fr) m
- Hindi: विसर्ग (hi) (visarg), (symbol) ः
- Japanese: ヴィサルガ (ja) (visaruga)
- Khmer: រះមុខ (km) (rĕəh muk), វិសគ៌ (vĭsគ៌), វិសជ្ជនីយ (vɨhccɔɔniiy), (symbol)ះ (km)
- Malayalam: വിസർഗം (ml) (visaṟgaṁ), (symbol) ഃ
- Portuguese: visarga m
- Russian: ви́сарга (ru) f (vísarga)
- Sanskrit: विसर्ग (sa) (visarga), (symbol) ः
- Sinhalese: (symbol) ඃ (si)
- Tamil: ஃ (ta), முப்புள்ளி (ta) (muppuḷḷi), ஆய்தம் (ta) (āytam)
- Telugu: విసర్గ (te) (visarga), (symbol) ః
- Thai: วิสรรชนีย์ (th) (wí-sǎn-chá-nii)
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See also
- anusvara
- Symbols for visarga in various scripts:
- ः (Devanagari)
- ঃ (Bengali)
- ਃ (Gurmukhi)
- ઃ (Gujarati)
- ଃ (Odia)
- ஃ (Tamil)
- ః (Telugu)
- ಃ (Kannada)
- ഃ (Malayalam)
- ཿ (Tibetan)
- း (Burmese)
- ះ (Khmer)
- 𑄂 (Chakma)
- ඃ (Sinhala)
Anagrams
Portuguese
Noun
visarga m (plural visargas)
- (Sanskrit phonetics) visarga (voiceless h in Sanskrit)
