श्रीमद्भगवद्गीताBhagavad Gītā · in the light of Sri Aurobindo, home

कोशःDictionaries

Sanskrit dictionary (beta)

Every entry for a word in Apte, Monier-Williams, Macdonell and the Dhātupāṭha, with their abbreviations spelled out, and an analysis of its forms.

Results for शिशु

3 dictionaries · exact headword

Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. शिशुśiśuA child, an infant; शिशुर्वा शिष्या वा U.4.11.

    [शो-कु सन्वद्भावः द्वित्वम् Compare Uṇ.1.2]

    1. A child, an infant; शिशुर्वा शिष्या वा Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)4.11.
    2. The young of any animal (as a calf, puppy, fawn etc.); नष्टाशङ्का हरिणशिशवो मन्दमन्दं चरन्ति Ś.1.15;7.14,18.
    3. A boy under eight or sixteen years of age.
    4. A pupil, scholar.
    5. An elephant in the sixth year; Mātaṅga Latin5.8.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -कृच्छ्रम् a form of penance.

    • -क्रन्दः क्रन्दनम् the cry or weeping of a child.

    • -क्रन्दीयः (id est, that is ग्रन्थः) a work treating of the complaints of children; ParasmaipadaIV. 3.88.

    • -गन्धा a kind of jasmine (double jasmine).

    • -चान्द्रायणम् a lunar penance of children; चतुरः प्रातरश्नीयात् पिण्डान् विप्रः समाहितः । चतुरोऽस्तमिते सूर्ये शिशुचान्द्रा- यणं स्मृतम् ॥ Ms.11.219.

    • -नागः

      1. a young elephant.
      2. a young snake.
    • -नामन् Masculine a camel.

    • -पालः Name of of a king of the Chedis and son of Damaghoṣa. [According to the Viṣṇu Purāṇa this monarch was, in a previous existence, the unrighteous Hiraṇyakaśipu, king of the Asuras who was killed by Viṣṇu in the form of Narasiṁha. He was next born as the ten-headed Rāvaṇa who was killed by Rāma. Then he was born as the son of Damaghoṣa, and continued his enmity to Kṛiṣṇa, the eighth incarnation of Viṣṇu, with even greater implacability; see Śi.1. He denounced Kṛiṣṇa when they met at the Rājasūya sacrifice of Yudhiṣṭhira, but his head was cut off by Kṛiṣṇa with his discus. His death forms the subject of a celebrated poem by Māgha.] denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedहन् Masculine an epithet of Kṛiṣṇa.

    • -प्रियः treacle. (-यम्) the white water-lily.

    • -मारः

      1. the Gangetic porpoise.
      2. a collection of stars held to be a form of Viṣṇu. denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedशिरस् Neuter the north-east quarter; शिशुमार- शिरः प्राप्य न्यविशंस्ते स्म पार्थिवाः Mb.1.185.16.
    • -वाहकः, -वाह्यकः a wild goat.

    • -हत्या child-murder, infanticide.

Monier-Williams

Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. शिशुśiśum. (fr. √1. शू = श्वि) a child, infant, the young of any animal (as a calf, puppy &c.; also applied to young…
    1. masculine gender (from √1. शू Equivalent to श्वि) a child, infant, the young of any animal (as a calf, puppy etc.; also applied to young plants, and to the recently risen sun; often in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound') fg-veda etc.
    2. masculine gender a boy under eight years of age W.
    3. masculine gender a lad under sixteen ibidem
    4. masculine gender a pupil, scholar ibidem
    5. masculine gender Name of Skanda स्कन्द MBh. R. (confer, compare कुमार)
    6. masculine gender of a descendant of An3giras अङ्गिरस् (author of fg-veda ix, 112). Anukr.
    7. masculine gender of a son of Sa1ran2a सारण VP.
    8. masculine gender of a king Buddh.
    9. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective young, infantine Lexicographers
    10. (according to to some also Equivalent to शिश्न, "membrum virile")

Macdonell

A. A. Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary
  1. शिशुśiśu[sísu] m. [grower: √sû] child, infant; young (of animals; also of young plants and the recently risen sun): in…

    [sísu] masculine [grower: √sû] child, infant; young (of animals; also of young plants and the recently risen sun): in cpds. generally --˚; noun of Skanda; noun

Analysis (Beta) · शिशु

morphology by sanskrit_parser

Analysis unavailable: the morphological analyzer is not running on this server.