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

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

All these changes and various contractions of Prakrit syllables have caused considerable variations in the forms of words, but generally not so as to obscure the origin.

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

Kalidasa is also the author of an epic in Prakrit, wherein he sings of the building of the bridge between India and Ceylon and of the death of Ravana.

From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)