Prakrit
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Prakrit
1780–90; < Sanskrit prākṛta, derivative of prakṛti; see prakriti
Example Sentences
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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
Only the principal characters, the gods, the Brahmins, and the kings, speak Sanskrit; women and the less important characters speak Prakrit, more or less refined according to their rank.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
The first Indian colonists seem to have introduced a Prakrit dialect.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
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