मोक्ष
Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit मोक्ष (mokṣa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moːkʃ(ə)/
Noun
मोक्ष • (mokṣ) m
- (Jainism, Hinduism) moksha (liberation from the cycle of reincarnation)
Declension
Declension of मोक्ष (masc cons-stem)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | मोक्ष mokṣ | मोक्ष mokṣ |
| oblique | मोक्ष mokṣ | मोक्षों mokṣõ |
| vocative | मोक्ष mokṣ | मोक्षो mokṣo |
Sanskrit
Etymology
From the root मोक्ष् (√mokṣ, “to free one's self, loosen, liberate”) (verb मोक्षते (mokṣate)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewk-.
Noun
मोक्ष • (mokṣa) m
- (Jainism, Hinduism) emancipation, liberation, release from; moksha
- release from worldly existence or transmigration, final or eternal emancipation
- death
- name of particular sacred hymns conducive to final emancipation
- (astronomy) the liberation of an eclipsed or occulted planet, the last contact or separation of the eclipsed and eclipsing bodies, end of an eclipse
- falling off or down. (compare गर्भ-)
- effusion
- setting free, deliverance (of a prisoner)
- loosing, untying (hair)
- settling (a question)
- acquittance of an obligation, discharge of a debt (compare रिण-)
- shedding or causing to flow (tears, blood etc.)
- casting, shooting, hurling
- strewing, scattering
- utterance (of a curse)
- relinquishment, abandonment
- name of the Divine mountain मेरु
- Schrebera swietenioides L.
Descendants
- Bengali: মোক্ষ (mokhô)
- Gujarati: મોક્ષ (mokṣ)
- → Hindi: मोक्ष (mokṣ)
- → Javanese: ꦩꦺꦴꦏ꧀ꦱ (moksa), moksa
- → Kannada: ಮೋಕ್ಷ (mōkṣa)
- → Malayalam: മോക്ഷം (mōkṣaṃ)
- Nepali: मोक्ष (mokṣa)
- Oriya: ମୋକ୍ଷ (mokṣô)
- Punjabi: ਮੋਕਸ਼ (mokaś)
- → Tamil: மோட்சம் (mōṭcam)
- → Telugu: మోక్షం (mōkṣaṁ)
- → Thai: โมกษะ (môok-sà)
References
- Monier William's Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 2nd Ed. 1899