Alternative spellings of this word include Gunavachaka.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

guṇavācaka (गुणवाचक).—n S An adjective, a term expressing quality.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Guṇavācaka (गुणवाचक).—a word which connotes an attribute or quality, an adjective, or substantive used attributively; as श्वेत (śveta) in श्वेतोऽश्वः (śveto'śvaḥ).

Derivable forms: guṇavācakaḥ (गुणवाचकः).

Guṇavācaka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms guṇa and vācaka (वाचक). See also (synonyms): guṇavacana.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Guṇavācaka (गुणवाचक).—n.

(-kaṃ) An adjective or attributive noun. E. guṇa, and vācaka a word.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Guṇavācaka (गुणवाचक):—[=guṇa-vācaka] [from guṇa] mfn. denoting a quality (an adjective), [Vopadeva iv, 17; Pāṇini 8-1, 12 [Scholiast or Commentator]] (-vacana, [Kāśikā-vṛtti])

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Guṇavācaka (गुणवाचक):—[guṇa-vācaka] (kaṃ) 1. n. An adjective.

[Sanskrit to German]

Gunavacaka in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Guṇavācaka (ಗುಣವಾಚಕ):—[noun] any of a class of words used to modify or describe a noun or other substantive; an adjective.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Vacaka, Guna.

Full-text: Gunavacana, Gunavaci, Vacaka.

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