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PANINI

• PANINI (noun)
The noun PANINI has 1 sense:

1. Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC)

Familiarity information: PANINI used as a noun is very rare.

• PANINI (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

grammarian; syntactician (a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax)

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