anusvara
noun
an·us·va·ra
| \ ˌanəsˈvärə, ˌän-\
plural -s
Definition of anusvara
1
: a Sanskrit postvocalic nasal sound or group of sounds occurring in the interior of a morpheme only before ś, ṣ, s, or h and at the end of a morpheme only before an initial consonant of a following morpheme
2
: a sign used in writing Sanskrit to represent the anusvara sound or sounds and in some manuscripts and editions certain other postvocalic nasal sounds
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