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has glosseng: Avagraha (Dev: अवग्रह avagraha) is a Devanāgarī symbol used to indicate prodelision of an . It is usually transliterated with an apostrophe, as in the Sanskrit philosophical expression ( without sandhi) ‘I am Shiva’. The avagraha is also used for prolonging vowel sounds in modern languages, for example Hindi for ‘Maaaa!’ when calling to one’s mother. Sometimes it is also used to signify long or heavy syllables in metrical poetry, for example can the syllables in the word ‘metre’ (in nominative) be expressed as , as two long syllables.
lexicalizationeng: avagraha
instance of(noun) a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
diacritic, diacritical mark
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has glosspor: Avagraha (Devanagari: अवग्रह avagraha) é um símbolo do alfabeto devanagari usado para indicar prodelisão de um . É normalmente transliterado com um apóstrofe.
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