Avagraha (ऽ) 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 शिवोऽहम्Śivo’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 Hindiमाँऽऽऽ! for ‘Mā̃ā̃ā̃ā̃!’ when calling to one's mother, or when transliterating foreign words in instant messaging: for example, 'cool' can be transliterated as कूऽल.[citation needed]
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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 छंदःchandaḥ ‘metre’ (in nominative) can be denoted as "ऽऽ", meaning two long syllables. (Cf. other notations in entry "Systems of scansion".)
avagraha, symbol, used, indicate, prodelision, many, indian, languages, like, sanskrit, shown, below, usually, transliterated, with, apostrophe, roman, script, case, devanagari, sanskrit, philosophical, expression, ऽहम, Śivo, Śivaḥ, aham, which, sandhi, अहम, s. Avagraha ऽ 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 श व ऽहम Sivo ham Sivaḥ aham which is a sandhi of श व अहम I am Shiva The avagraha is also used for prolonging vowel sounds in some languages for example Hindi म ऽऽऽ for Ma a a a when calling to one s mother or when transliterating foreign words in instant messaging for example cool can be transliterated as क ऽल citation needed ऽAvagrahaIn 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 छ द chandaḥ metre in nominative can be denoted as ऽऽ meaning two long syllables Cf other notations in entry Systems of scansion Avagraha in Unicode EditThe avagraha symbol is encoded at several Unicode points for various Brahmic scripts that use it 1 2 3 4 5 6 Avagraha characters in Unicode Character Unicode character number Full Unicode nameऽ U 093D Devanagari sign avagraha U A8F1 Combining Devanagari sign avagrahaꣷ U A8F7 Devanagari sign candrabindu avagrahaঽ U 09BD Bengali sign avagrahaઽ U 0ABD Gujarati sign avagrahaଽ U 0B3D Odia sign avagrahaఽ U 0C3D Telugu sign avagrahaಽ U 0CBD Kannada sign avagrahaഽ U 0D3D Malayalam sign avagrahaᮺ U 1BBA Sundanese sign avagraha𑓄 U 114C4 Tirhuta sign avagraha U 0F85 Tibetan sign palutaៜ U 17DC Khmer sign avakraha U 1885 Mongolian Galik sign baludaReferences Edit Devanagari PDF Unicode Bengali PDF Unicode Oriya Odia PDF Unicode Telugu PDF Unicode Malayalam PDF Unicode Tibetan PDF Unicode nbsp This writing system related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Avagraha amp oldid 1180675355, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
