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apa·bhram·sa \ˌəpəˈbrəmshə\ noun (-s) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Sanskrit apabhraṁśa, literally, fall : a stage of an Indic language characterized by linguistic changes not found in a more conservative stage that serves as a standard of correctness: a. : non-Sanskrit linguistic forms in Indic speech prior to approximately the 3d century A.D. b. : an Indic language spoken in approximately the 3d to the 5th centuries A.D. and differing from the literary Prakrit c. : an Indic language that was used as a vehicle for poetry from approximately the 6th to the 12th centuries and that shows linguistic changes not found in Prakrit |