different between voiceless vs visarga

voiceless

English

Etymology

voice +? -less

Adjective

voiceless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
    • 1994, Loreena McKennitt, The Mystic's Dream
      A voiceless song in an ageless light / Sings at the coming dawn / Birds in flight are calling there / Where the heart moves the stones / It's there that my heart is calling / All for the love of you.
  2. (figuratively) Without a vote; having no input into a decision.
  3. (phonetics, of a consonant) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd. Examples: [t], [s], [f].

Synonyms

  • inaudible
  • silent
  • unvoiced

Antonyms

  • audible
  • vocal
  • voiced

Translations

See also

  • speechless

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visarga

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ?????? (visarga).

Noun

visarga (plural visargas)

  1. (phonology, Sanskrit grammar) the voiceless terminal h in Sanskrit

Translations

See also

  • anusvara
  • Symbols for visarga in various scripts:
    • ? (Devanagari)
    • ? (Bengali)
    • ? (Gurmukhi)
    • ? (Gujarati)
    • ? (Oriya)
    • ? (Tamil)
    • ? (Telugu)
    • ? (Kannada)
    • ? (Malayalam)
    • ? (Tibetan)
    • ? (Burmese)
    • ? (Khmer)
    • ???? (Chakma)

Anagrams

  • viagras

Portuguese

Noun

visarga m (plural visargas)

  1. (Sanskrit phonetics) visarga (voiceless h in Sanskrit)

visarga From the web:

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