English Explanatory Dictionary

Dogra

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of the Dogra script or of a Dogra alphabet.
name
  1. An abugida script (nearly extinct) used to write Dogri, a language originating in India.
noun
  1. A member of an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group living primarily in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and speaking the Dogri language.

Pronunciation

/ˈdoʊɡɾə/

Word forms

Dogra Dogras

Etymology

From Dogri डोगरा (ḍogrā), from Sanskrit द्विगर्त (dvigarta). The script was officially referred to as Sanskrit द्विगर्त अक्षर (dvigarta akṣara, “Dogra letters”). Another indigenous name for the script is Dogri [script needed] (dogra akkharor, “New Dogra letters”).

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