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Avagraha — Wikipedia (en)

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  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avagraha},
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Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avagraha. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

Avagraha (ऽ, IPA: [ɐʋɐɡrɐɦɐ]) is a symbol used to indicate prodelision of an अ (a) in many Indian languages like Sanskrit as shown below. It is usually transliterated with an apostrophe in Roman script and, in case of Devanagari, as in the Sanskrit philosophical expression शिवोऽहम् Śivo'ham (Śivaḥ aham), which is a sandhi of (शिवः + अहम्) ‘I am Shiva’. The avagraha is also used for prolonging vowel sounds in some languages, for example Hindi माँऽऽऽ! for ‘Mā̃ā̃ā̃ā̃!’ when calling to one's mother. This symbol is more frequently used in the Eastern Hindi and Bihari languages especially Bhojpuri language. In the case of Hindi, the character is also sometimes used as a symbol to denote long or heavy syllables, in metrical poetry. For example, the syllables in the word छंदः chandaḥ ‘metre’ (in nominative) can be denoted as "ऽऽ", meaning two long syllables. (Cf. other notations in entry "Systems of scansion".)

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Avagraha» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avagraha
Wikidata Q3634803: «segno diacritico delle scritture Brahmi» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3634803
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avagraha?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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