आशय
Hindi
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit आशय (āśayá).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /ɑː.ʃəj/, [äː.ʃəj]
Noun
आशय • (āśay) m
- (rare, formal) abode, home
- Synonyms: निवास (nivās), वास (vās), गृह (gŕh), घर (ghar)
- (in compounds) container, vessel
- (in compounds, physiology) organ
Declension
Declension of आशय (masc cons-stem)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | आशय āśay | आशय āśay |
| oblique | आशय āśay | आशयों āśayõ |
| vocative | आशय āśay | आशयो āśayo |
Derived terms
- अग्न्याशय (agnyāśay, “pancreas”)
- आमाशय (āmāśay, “stomach”)
- गर्भाशय (garbhāśay, “womb”)
- पित्ताशय (pittāśay, “gall-bladder”)
- मूत्राशय (mūtrāśay, “bladder, vesica”)
- अंडाशय (aṇḍāśay, “ovary”)
Further reading
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “आशय”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- ᬆᬰᬬ (Balinese script)
- আশয (Assamese script)
- আশয (Bengali script)
- 𑰁𑰫𑰧 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀆𑀰𑀬 (Brahmi script)
- 𑌆𑌶𑌯 (Grantha script)
- આશય (Gujarati script)
- ਆਸ਼ਯ (Gurmukhi script)
- ꦄꦴꦯꦪ (Javanese script)
- អាឝយ (Khmer script)
- ಆಶಯ (Kannada script)
- ອາຨຍ (Lao script)
- ആശയ (Malayalam script)
- 𑘁𑘫𑘧 (Modi script)
- ᠠᢗᠱᠠᠶ᠋ᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
- ᠠ᠊ᠠᡧᠠᠶᠠ (Manchu script)
- အာၐယ (Burmese script)
- 𑦡𑧋𑧇 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐁𑐱𑐫 (Newa script)
- ଆଶଯ (Oriya script)
- ꢃꢯꢫ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆄𑆯𑆪 (Sharada script)
- 𑖁𑖫𑖧 (Siddham script)
- ආශය (Sinhalese script)
- ఆశయ (Telugu script)
- อาศย (Thai script)
- ཨཱ་ཤ་ཡ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒂𑒬𑒨 (Tirhuta script)
Etymology
From आ- (ā-) + शय (śaya), from शी (śī, “to sleep, lie down for sexual intercourse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie down, settle”).
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /ɑː.ɕɐ.jɐ́/
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɑː.ɕɐ.jɐ/
Noun
आशय • (āśayá) m
- resting-place, bed
- seat, place
- an asylum, abode or retreat
- a receptacle
- any recipient
- any vessel of the body
- रक्ताशय ― raktāśaya ― heart (lit. ‘the receptacle of blood’)
- आमाशय ― āmāśaya ― stomach (lit. ‘the bleating receptacle’)
- the stomach, abdomen
- the seat of feelings and thoughts, the mind, heart, soul
- thought, meaning, intention
- disposition of mind, mode of thinking
- the balance of the fruits of previous works, which lie stored up in the mind in the form of mental deposits of merit or demerit, until they ripen in the individual soul's own experience into rank, years, and enjoyment
- the will
- pleasure
- virtue
- vice
- fate
- fortune
- property
- a miser, niggard
- name of the plant Artocarpus integer (syn. Artocarpus integrifolia; chempedak)
Declension
| Masculine a-stem declension of आशय (āśayá) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | आशयः āśayáḥ | आशयौ āśayaú | आशयाः / आशयासः¹ āśayā́ḥ / āśayā́saḥ¹ |
| Vocative | आशय ā́śaya | आशयौ ā́śayau | आशयाः / आशयासः¹ ā́śayāḥ / ā́śayāsaḥ¹ |
| Accusative | आशयम् āśayám | आशयौ āśayaú | आशयान् āśayā́n |
| Instrumental | आशयेन āśayéna | आशयाभ्याम् āśayā́bhyām | आशयैः / आशयेभिः¹ āśayaíḥ / āśayébhiḥ¹ |
| Dative | आशयाय āśayā́ya | आशयाभ्याम् āśayā́bhyām | आशयेभ्यः āśayébhyaḥ |
| Ablative | आशयात् āśayā́t | आशयाभ्याम् āśayā́bhyām | आशयेभ्यः āśayébhyaḥ |
| Genitive | आशयस्य āśayásya | आशययोः āśayáyoḥ | आशयानाम् āśayā́nām |
| Locative | आशये āśayé | आशययोः āśayáyoḥ | आशयेषु āśayéṣu |
| Notes |
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Descendants
- Hindi: आशय (āśay)
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899), “आशय”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 714.
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “āśayá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press