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Prakrit

/ˈpɹɑː.kɹɪt/adjective

Prakrit is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to this language” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-R-A-K-R-I-T, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does Prakrit mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to this language.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce Prakrit?

  • /ˈpɹɑː.kɹɪt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sumxr-Prakrit.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of Prakrit

  • Pracrit
  • Prākrit
  • Pkt.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Prakrit?

Prakrit appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Prakrit in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense any of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, derived from dialects of Old Indo-Aryan lang:

LanguageWords
Frenchprakrit
Portugueseprácrito
Spanishprácrito

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Prakrit come from?

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्राकृत (prākṛta).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).