Talk:अगार

RFV discussion: August 2020
User:शब्दशोधक blanked the page with the message "Deleted wrong word completely. अगार is no word, आगार is the right word." DTLHS (talk) 02:38, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
 * FWIW, the Hindi Wiktionary lists both term as Hindi. --Lambiam 06:37, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
 * To repeat what I said at RFD: Monier Monier-Williams gives both  and   for Sanskrit. This RFV seems to be for Pali, though, and the Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary lists only agāra as the "real" form, and āgāra just says to see the entry for agāra. At that entry we read: "Owing to frequent occurrence of agāra at the end of compounds of which the first word ends in a, we have a dozen quite familiar words ending apparently in āgāra. This form has been considered therefore as a proper doublet of agāra. This however is wrong. The long ā is simply a contraction of the short a at the end of the first part of the compound with the short a at the beginning of agāra." Of course we aren't obliged to blindly follow a 100-year-old dictionary, but there does seem to be good reason to believe that "अगार is no word, आगार is the right word" is an incorrect claim. —Mahāgaja · talk 07:38, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Originally the rfv tag was for the Sanskrit entry as well, but it was changed out of process to rfd. --Lambiam 12:14, 22 August 2020 (UTC)


 * RFV Passed - शब्दशोधक (talk) 15:17, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

RFD discussion: August 2020
No word such as अगार (agāra) exists in Sanskrit. The word meaning house or apartment is आगार (āgāra), not to be mistaken with अगार. Therefore I feel that this entry should be deleted immediately.

Thanks and regards. —&#x2060;This unsigned comment was added by &#x20;at 07:18, 21 August 2020 (UTC).
 * If you doubt the existence of a word, you should take it to RFV, not RFD. In this case, however Monier Monier-Williams does in fact give both  and  . —Mahāgaja · talk 08:08, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * The term had already been posted at WT:RFVN on 17 August 2020, but the OP here has changed the tag from rfv to rfd. --Lambiam 15:50, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Use this website to look up Sanskrit words in various dictionaries: http://sanskritdictionary.com/
 * If you search अगार in that database, it returns results not only from Monier Williams' dictionary but also a few others. It was a word, along with आगार. -- Bhagadatta (talk) 15:43, 25 August 2020 (UTC)


 * RFV Kept - शब्दशोधक (talk) 15:17, 30 August 2020 (UTC)