अकार

Borrowed from Sanskrit अकार (akāra).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ə.kɑːɾ/, [ɐ.käːɾ]

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अकार • (akār) m

1. the Devanagari letter अ (a)
2. the vowel sound /ə/

अकार m

1. Devanagari script form of akāra (“letter 'a'”)
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[1] (overall work in Pali), page 2; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     ते च खो अक्खरापि अकारादयो एकचत्तालीसं सुत्तन्तेसु सोपकारा होन्ति, तं यथा :-

     Te ca kho akkharāpi akārādayo ekacattālīsaṃ suttantesu sopakārā honti, taṃ yathā :-

     And indeed as to the letters , there are forty one employed in the discourses; starting with 'a', they are:

अ (a, the letter) +‎ कार (kāra, term designating a letter or sound).

• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɐˈkɑː.ɾɐ/

अकार • (akāra) stem, m

1. the Devanagari letter अ
2. the vowel sound /ɐ/

• → English: akāra (learned)
• → Pali: akāra (learned)

• Monier Williams (1899) “अकार”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0001.