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# devanagari

«devanagari» in Mova's school dictionary: **The writing system (script) used for Hindi, Marathi…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (Devanagari, uncountable; usually capitalised)

### meaning for a pupil

The writing system (script) used for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit and several other languages of India and Nepal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/devanagari/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In language and geography lessons, Devanagari is recognised by the straight line along the top that letters hang from. It is written left to right. It shows how different languages use different scripts, like Latin letters for English or Cyrillic for Ukrainian. Phrases: «written in Devanagari», «the Devanagari script».

### examples

- Hindi is written in the Devanagari script. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/devanagari/#x1)
- In Devanagari, letters hang from a line across the top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/devanagari/#x2)
- Our classmate wrote her name in Devanagari for us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/devanagari/#x3)
- Sanskrit, an ancient language, also uses Devanagari. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/devanagari/#x4)
- Devanagari is read from left to right, like English. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/devanagari/#x5)
- The shop sign was in both English and Devanagari. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/devanagari/#x6)

### note

A proper name, usually written with a capital D. Pronounced «day-va-NAH-ga-ree». It is not a language but a script: Hindi is the language, Devanagari is how it is written. It has about 47 main letters.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «devanagari» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/devanagari/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.