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Sanskrit
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Etymology
From अन्य (anyá) + -त्र (-tra), a suffix also found in कुत्र (kutra), अत्र (atra), तत्र (tatra), and यत्र (yatra).
Pronunciation
Adverb
अन्यत्र • (anyátra)
- elsewhere
c. 400 BCE,
Mahābhārata 18.5.38:
- धर्मे चार्थे च कामे च मोक्षे च भरतर्षभ ।
यदिहास्ति तद्अन्यत्र यन्नेहास्ति न तत्क्वचित् ॥- dharme cārthe ca kāme ca mokṣe ca bharatarṣabha.
yadihāsti tadanyatra yannehāsti na tatkvacit. - Bull among Bharatas, whatever is here, on Law, on Profit, on Pleasure, and on Salvation, that is found elsewhere. But what is not here is nowhere else.
- somewhere else
Conjunction
अन्यत्र • (anyatra)
- unless
Preposition
अन्यत्र • (anyatra)
- except
- without
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “अन्यत्र”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 45, column 3.
- Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “अन्यत्र”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “अन्यत्र”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press