अभ्यङ्गabhyaṅga

अभ्यङ्ग (abhyaṅga) is a Sanskrit word meaning rubbing with unctuous substances, unguent, rubbing the body with oil or ointment, an ointment or liniment, rubbing the body with oil or inunction, an oily ointment or liniment. Its 9 recorded definitions are grouped into 3 contexts, among them Act of Anointing/Rubbing with Oil, Multiple Meanings (Act, Substance, Collyrium, Oil Sediment), Unguent/Anointing Substance.

Meanings by context

Act of Anointing/Rubbing with Oil

5 definitions
rubbing with unctuous substances

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Rubbing the body with an unctuous substance

Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Unction

Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Smearing, anointing, or ointment.

Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Rubbing the body with oil or ointment. 2. An ointment or liniment.

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Multiple Meanings (Act, Substance, Collyrium, Oil Sediment)

3 definitions
1. Rubbing the body with oil or inunction. 2. An oily ointment or liniment. 3. Applying collyrium to the eyes. 4. Sediment or cake of oil.

Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Rubbing the body with oil or inunction. 2. An unguent or oily application. 3. Applying collyrium to the eyes. 4. Sediment of oil.

Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Anointing or smearing the body with oil. 2. An unguent or liniment.

Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Unguent/Anointing Substance

1 definition
unguent

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 8 works: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.