PRAKRIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Prakrit mean? 

• PRAKRIT (noun)
  The noun PRAKRIT has 2 senses:

1. any of the modern Indic languages

2. any of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD

  Familiarity information: PRAKRIT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRAKRIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the modern Indic languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Prakrit" is a kind of...):

Indic; Indo-Aryan (a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages)

Derivation:

Prakritic (of or relating to Prakrit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of the vernacular Indic languages of north and central India (as distinguished from Sanskrit) recorded from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Prakrit" is a kind of...):

Indic; Indo-Aryan (a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Prakrit"):

Pali (an ancient Prakrit language (derived from Sanskrit) that is the scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism)

Derivation:

Prakritic (of or relating to Prakrit)