English Dictionary

Sanskritism

名詞

A word or phrase borrowed from Sanskrit for modern usage in India, Sri Lanka and elsewhere, especially in various Indo-Aryan languages.

日本語の意味

サンスクリット語から借用され、主に現代のインド、スリランカなどの地域で、さまざまなインド・アーリア語において用いられる単語やフレーズ

The novelist peppered his dialogue with a Sanskritism to lend an air of ancient authority.

その小説家は登場人物の台詞にサンスクリット語由来の語句を散りばめ、古代の権威を感じさせた。

意味（1）

A word or phrase borrowed from Sanskrit for modern usage in India, Sri Lanka and elsewhere, especially in various Indo-Aryan languages.

My opinion as regards Bengali is that Primary Instruction for the lower classes of people, who are for the most part ethnically allied to the Hindoos should be in the Bengali language, purified, however, from the super-structure of Sanskritism of learned Hindoos and supplemented by the numerous words of Arabic and Persian origin...

Sanskritisms （ plural ）