Sanskritize (English, verb)
expansion: Sanskritize (third-person singular simple present Sanskritizes, present participle Sanskritizing, simple past and past participle Sanskritized)
expansion: (transitive, American spelling, Oxford British English)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To render a non-Sanskrit text, word, etc., in a form characteristic of Sanskrit morphology or phonology.
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To influence a non-Sanskrit language by Sanskritic vocabulary.
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
qualifier: Southeast Asia
glosses: To emulate rituals and practices of upper classes so as to gain upward social mobility.
tags: British
English
Oxford
South-Asia
US
transitive
Forms:
form: Sanskritizes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Sanskritizing
tags: participle
present
form: Sanskritized
tags: participle
past
form: Sanskritized
tags: past
form: Sanskritise
tags: alternative