apabhraṃśaḥ

Dictionary meanings for apabhraṃśaḥ from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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apabhraṃśaḥ

Normalized lookup: apabhramsah

Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1 Falling down or away, a fall; atyārūḍhirbhavati mahatāmapyapabhraṃśaniṣṭhā S. 4 v. l. ending in a (precipitate) fall.

2 A corrupted word, corrup- tion; ghara is an apabhraṃśa or corruption of gṛha; (hence) an incorrect word whether formed against the rules of grammar or used in a sense not strictly Sanskrit; see apaśabda.

3 A corrupt language, one of the lowest forms of the Prākṛta dialect used by cow-herds...

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