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Entry दुःख

  1. दुःखduḥkhaa.Painful, disagreeable, unpleasant; सिंहानां निनदा दुःखाः श्रोतुं दुःखमतो वनम् Rām.

    [दुष्टानि खानि यस्मिन्, दुष्टं खनति खन्-ड, दुःख्-अच् वा Tv.]

    1. Painful, disagreeable, unpleasant; सिंहानां निनदा दुःखाः श्रोतुं दुःखमतो वनम् Rām.
    2. Difficult, uneasy.
    3. tough, hard.
    4. pained, distressed.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -च्छेद्य also दुःखो- च्छेद्य Adjective

    • -खम्

      1. Sorrow, grief, unhappiness, distress, pain, agony; सुखं हि दुःखान्यनुभूय शोभते Mk.1.1; यदेवोपनतं दुः- खात्सुखं तद्रसवत्तरम् V.3.21; so दुःखसुख, समदुःखसुख etc.
      2. Trouble, difficulty; Ś. Til.12; अर्थानामर्जने दुःखमर्जितानां च रक्षणे । आये दुःखं व्यये दुःखं धिगर्थाः कष्टसंश्रयाः ॥ Pt.1.163. (दुःखम् and दुःखेन are used as adverbs in the sense of 'hardly' 'with difficulty' 'or trouble' Ś.7.13. अव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते Bg.12.5; Ku.4.13; Pt.1.; R.19.49; H.1.158).
    • -अतीत Adjective freed from pain.

    • -अन्तः final emancipation.

    • -आर्त, -अन्वित Adjective pained, afflicted, distressed.

    • -कर Adjective painful, troublesome, -गतम् adversity, calamity; Mb.12.

    • -ग्रामः 'the scene of suffering', worldly existence.

    • -छिन्न

      1. Adjective
      2. hard to please or manage, bad tempered, irritable; उपेत्य सा दोहददुःख- शीलताम् R.3.6; Ś.4.
      3. accustomed to the misery of; कामेकपत्नीव्रतदुःखशीलाम् Ku.3.7; 'who is accustomed to (suffer) the misery (hard lot) of a perfectly chaste life.
    • -संचार

      1. Adjective
      2. passing (time) unhappily.
      3. impassable -सागरः 'the sea of troubles'; worldly life.
      4. hard.
      5. to be conquered with difficulty. प्रजानुरागाद्धर्माच्च दुःखोच्छेद्यो हि धार्मिकः H.4.24.
    • -जात Adjective feeling pain.

    • -जीविन् Adjective living in pain or distress; Ms. 11.9.

    • -त्रयाभिघातः unbearable association of the three sufferings; दुःखत्रयाभिघाताज्जिज्ञासा Sāṅ. K.1.

    • -दुःखम् (Instrumental) with great difficulty; (धारयन्ती) शय्योत्सङ्गे निहित- मसकृद्दुःखदुःखेन गात्रम् Me.95.

    • -दुःखिन् Adjective having sorrow upon sorrow; मया रक्षति दुःखदुःखी Bhāg.11.11.19.

    • -दोह्या (a cow) difficult to be milked.

    • -प्राय बहुल Adjective full of trouble or grief.

    • -भागिन्, -भाज् Adjective unhappy. Ms.4.157. भोगः occurrence of trouble or misery.

    • -योगः infliction of pain; Ms.

    • -लव्य Adjective hard to be pierced or cut; B. R.4.11.

    • -लोकः worldly life, the world as a scene of constant suffering.

    • -शील Adjective

    In the Gita2·362·565·610·413·714·1618·86·22

    निन्दन्तस्तव सामर्थ्यं ततो दुःखतरं नु किम् ॥

    nindantastava sāmarthyaṁ tato duḥkhataraṁ nu kim. — Many unseemly words will be spoken by thy enemies, slandering thy strength; what is worse grief than that? 2·36
    • दुःखतरम्duḥkhataramnominative singular of the neuter form of the compound degree of the adjective duḥkha (grief).
    • दुःखेषुduḥkheṣulocative plural of the neuter noun duḥkha (sorrow, grief).
    • दुःखम्duḥkhamadverb indeclinable (is difficult). Nominative or Accusative Singular of the noun duḥkha (pain, misery or difficulty).
    • दुःखेनduḥkhenainstrumental singular of the neuter noun duḥkha (mental grief).

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Headwords under द

Part 4 of 8 दिह् – दृंह्All parts
  1. द – दरित
  2. दरिद्र – दान्त
  3. दान्ति – दिष्णु
  4. दिह् – दृंह्
  5. दृंहणम् – दो
  6. दोग्धृ – द्रव्यक
  7. द्रव्यम् – द्वैतम्
  8. द्वैतिन् – द्व्यहकाल