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  2. Longest words - Wikipedia

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    from the Varadāmbikā Pariṇaya Campū by Tirumalāmbā, [67] composed of 195 Sanskrit letters (428 letters in the roman transliteration, dashes excluded), thus making it the longest word ever to appear in worldwide literature. [68] [69] Each hyphen separates every individual word this word is composed of. The approximate meaning of this word is:

  3. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    The green background means a given dictionary is the largest in a given language. ... other Italic dialects, Sanskrit, and others. There are about: 10,000 adjectives ...

  4. Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit (/ ˈ s æ n s k r ɪ t /; attributively संस्कृत-; [15] [16] nominally संस्कृतम्, saṃskṛtam, [17] [18] [d]) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

  5. List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words of Sanskrit origin. Most of these words were not directly borrowed from Sanskrit. The meaning of some words have changed slightly after being borrowed. Both languages belong to the Indo-European language family and have numerous cognate terms; some examples are "mortal", "mother", "father" and the names of the ...

  6. Mamihlapinatapai - Wikipedia

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    The word mamihlapinatapai is derived from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It has been translated as "a look that without words is shared by two people who want to initiate something, but that neither will ...

  7. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    According to Eckler, the longest words likely to be encountered in general text are deinstitutionalization and counterrevolutionaries, with 22 letters each. [17] A computer study of over a million samples of normal English prose found that the longest word one is likely to encounter on an everyday basis is uncharacteristically, at 20 letters. [18]

  8. Devanagari transliteration - Wikipedia

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    However, later descendants of Brahmi were modified so that they could record Sanskrit in exacting phonetic detail. The earliest physical text in Sanskrit is a rock inscription by the Western Kshatrapa ruler Rudradaman, written c. 150 CE in Junagadh, Gujarat. Due to the remarkable proliferation of different varieties of Brahmi in the Middle Ages ...

  9. Tatsama - Wikipedia

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    The origin of tatsama words (Bengali: তৎসম, romanized: tôtśômô) in Bengali is traced to 10th century poets.Another, more minor, wave of tatsama vocabulary entered the (Modern) Bengali language by Sanskrit scholars teaching at Fort William College in Kolkata at the start of the 19th century.