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单词 sanskrit
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Sanskritn.adj.

Brit. /ˈsanskrɪt/, U.S. /ˈsænˌskrɪt/
Forms: 1600s ( Samescretan), Sanscreet, 1700s Shanscrit(t)a, -krit, -chrite, -creet, -kreet, Sansskirrit, Samscred, Hanscrit, 1700s–1800s Shanscrit, Shamscrit, Sanscrit, 1800s Sungskrit, Sangskrit, 1700s– Sanskrit.
Etymology: < Sanskrit saṃskṛta (neuter saṃskṛtam ) put together, well-formed, highly wrought, perfected, < sam- together (related to sama : see same adj.) + kṛ to make, do, perform. Compare French Sanscrit. The 18th cent. form Hanscrit, which occurs also in French at the same period, has not been satisfactorily explained.
A. n.
a. The ancient and sacred language of India, the oldest known member of the Indo-European family, in which the extensive Hindu literature from the Vedas downward is composed. In a narrower sense, the ‘classical Sanskrit’ (opposed to the ‘Epic’ and ‘Vedic’), the grammar of which was fixed by Pāṇini (? 4th cent. b.c.).
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Sanskrit1617
1617 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. xi. 636 The Iesuites conceiue that these Bramenes are of the dispersion of the Israelites, and their bookes (called Samescretan) doe somewhat agree with the Scriptures.
1696 J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 248 It is the Learned Language among them [sc. the Bramins], called the Sanscreet.
1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies xiii. 321 They have a learned language peculiar to themselves called the Hanserit.
1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 448 Their language is the Nagri..more ancient than even the Shanscritta.
1785 C. Wilkins (title) The Bhăgvăt-Gēētā,..translated from the original, in the Sănskrĕĕt, or ancient language of the Brāhmăns.
1797 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 518/2 The language called Shanscrit or Sanscrit.
1801 H. Lebedeff Gram. Ind. Dial. Pref. p. ix The alphabetical characters of the Shamscrit.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. iii. v. 277 There are, in Shanscrit, treatises on rhetoric and composition.
1876 W. D. Whitney Lang. & its Study vi. 225 We possess it in two some~what varying forms, the classical Sanskrit, and the older idiom of the so-called Vedas.
b. In corrupt form Sanscript used for ‘Sanskrit writings’.
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1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 161 Who founded these, their Annals nor their Sanscript deliver not.
B. adj.
Of, belonging to, or written in Sanskrit.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Indic > Sanskrit
Sanskrit1773
Samscredamic1801
Sanskritic1848
Sanskritized1934
1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 498 The loss of the Sans-skirrit language, and the confinement of it to the priesthood.
1798 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 88 582 The Sanscrita words are spelt according to the method practised by Sir William Jones.
1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Acct. Bks. 44/2 The Samscred language.
1804 W. Carey Gram. Sungskrit Lang. 35 There are six Declensions of Sungskrit Nouns.
1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 164 They retain very few vestiges of their Indian original, except their Sanskrit speech.
1876 W. D. Whitney Lang. & its Study vi. 225 The Prakrit dialects are chiefly preserved in the Sanskrit dramas.

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1797 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. IV 39 With Jones, a linguist, Sanscrit, Greek, or Manks.
1831 B. E. Pote Assassins of Paradise 98 Explained by a Shanscrit Authority.
1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 404/1 A. W. von Schlegel and Lassen have founded in Bonn a Sanscrit school.
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. xii. 578 The institution of a Sanscrit college in Calcutta for the tuition of Brahmans.
1874 L. J. Trotter Hist. India i. iii. 25 Sanskrit-speaking Hindus.
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