Talk:देवर

I've read here that final "a" is supposed to be kept in Sanskrit transliterations. I found "devara" also in Monnier Williams (see here). Am I missing something or what? :) --Ivan Štambuk 11:26, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

The schwa (a) is suppressed by the "halant" mark (the mark below "ra" र). --Dijan 11:31, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that's correct. "devara" would be just देवर. Still learning the basics ^_^ --Ivan Štambuk 11:39, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually, we're onto something. According to your link to Monnier's dictionary, it should be devara. I believe that whoever added this to the appendix had Hindi pronunciation in mind but decided to use the Sanskrit halant to indicate the Hindi pronunciation. I will make the move. --Dijan 11:44, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Ha! You already did! Awesome!  :) --Dijan 11:45, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Just a question, you did notice that Monnier's dictionary says devara means husband or lover? --Dijan 11:49, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, but it says first "= devṛi", which is "husband's brother" according to page 496. (I used this interface to find it.) "husband or lover" was maybe secondary set of meanings, but since Spoken Sanskrit site doesn't list those, I omitted them thinking that they're not that much relevant. Maybe it would be good to them add them after all, to mark explicitely that devar and devara are not completely synonymous. --Ivan Štambuk 12:00, 21 January 2008 (UTC)