• Source: Avagraha

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 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, or when transliterating foreign words in instant messaging: for example, 'cool' can be transliterated as कूऽल.
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".)




Avagraha in Unicode


The avagraha symbol is encoded at several Unicode points, for various Brahmic scripts that use it.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Aksara Sunda
• Latinisasi bahasa Sanskerta
• ISO 15919
• Avagraha
• Om
• Devanagari
• Telugu script
• Konkani alphabets
• Malayalam
• Bhojpuri language
• Devanagari numerals
• Khamaj
• International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration