anusvara
noun
an·us·va·ra
ˌanəsˈvärə,
ˌän-
plural -s
1
: a Sanskrit postvocalic nasal sound or group of sounds occurring in the interior of a morpheme only before ś, ṣ, s, or h and at the end of a morpheme only before an initial consonant of a following morpheme
2
: a sign used in writing Sanskrit to represent the anusvara sound or sounds and in some manuscripts and editions certain other postvocalic nasal sounds
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Sanskrit anusvāra-, from anu- "after, along" + svāra- "sound, accent," lengthened-grade noun derivative of svarati "(s/he) sounds, sings"
First Known Use
1820, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- cyl
- Cylas
- cylices
- cylicostome
- cylinder
- cylinder block
- cylinder front
- cylinder glass
- cylinder head
- cylinder lock
- cylinder machine
- cylinder man
- cylinder number
- cylinder oil
- cylinder planer
- cylinder press
- cylinder saw
- cylinder scale
- cylinder seal
- cylinder snake
- cylindered
- cylindering
- cylinders
- cylindr-
- cylindraceous