Prakrit

American  

[prah-krit, -kreet] / ˈprɑ krɪt, -krit /

noun

1. any of the vernacular Indic languages of the ancient and medieval periods, as distinguished from Sanskrit.

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Prakrit British  

/ ˈprɑːkrɪt /

noun

1. any of the vernacular Indic languages as distinguished from Sanskrit: spoken from about 300 _bc to the Middle Ages See also Pali

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Other Word Forms

• Prakritic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of Prakrit

1780–90; < Sanskrit prākṛta, derivative of prakṛti; see prakriti

Example Sentences

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Prakrit

Case in point: In 2019, a pair of high school iNaturalist users, Harper Forbes and Prakrit Jain, came across a scorpion they couldn’t identify in California.

From Slate ● May 27, 2023

Prakrit Jain of Los Altos and Harper Forbes of Sunnyvale traveled to dry lakes in California last year to collect scorpion specimens using a black light.

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022

Prakrit Jain and Harper Forbes were not always interested in scorpions.

From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2022

With these exceptions weak forms rarely have any terminations distinctive of gender.4 The synthetic declension of Sanskrit and Prakrit has disappeared.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

It is shown in the article Prakrit that these pleonastic suffixes can be doubled, or even trebled, and in this way we have a new series of tadbhava forms.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various