अभ्यासabhyāsa

अभ्यास (abhyāsa) is a Sanskrit word meaning reaching to, pervading, the act of adding anything, the first syllable of a reduplicated radical, reduplication, repetition, multiplication. Its 24 recorded definitions are grouped into 10 contexts, among them Comprehensive Definitions (Multiple Senses), Practice, Exercise, Habit, Custom, Etymological or Referential Information.

Roots
2. अस् (2. as), 1. अश् (1. aś)
Definitions
24
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Meanings by context

Comprehensive Definitions (Multiple Senses)

6 definitions
1. Addition. 2. Repetition or reduplication. 3. Practice, application, use, or habit. 4. Familiarity with. 5. Repeated recitation or study.

Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Repetition or repeated occurrence. 2. Habitual practice. 3. Study. 4. Mental effort to remain in a pure condition. 5. Reduplication in grammar. 6. The first syllable of a reduplicated base. 7. Multiplication. 8. Vicinity.

Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Repetition of words. 2. Repeated practice or use. 3. Reading or study.

Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Addition. 2. Repetition or reduplication. 3. Study, reading, exercise, or custom.

Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Repetition or repeated occurrence. 2. Repeated practice, use, or habit. 3. Study or repeated mental practice. 4. Reading. 5. Constant veneration. 6. In philosophy, the effort of the mind to remain in a pure, unmodified condition. 7. Reduplication or the first syllable of a reduplicated base. 8. The repetition of a word, verse, or stanza. 9. Multiplication or the product of multiplication. 10. Archery.

Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Repetition, practice, habit, or custom. 2. Study, reciting, or learning by heart. 3. In grammar, reduplication or the first syllable of a reduplicated radical. 4. In poetry, repetition of the last verses of a stanza. 5. Multiplication in arithmetic.

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Practice, Exercise, Habit, Custom

5 definitions
repeated exercise, habit, or custom

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

military practice

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Practice or exercise. 2. Learning by rote. 3. Practising archery. 4. Multiplication. 5. The reduplicate syllable of a verb. 6. Near or proximate.

Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Practice, learning by heart, or multiplication. 2. Near.

Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Practice or exercise. 2. Learning by rote. 3. Practicing archery. 4. Multiplication. 5. The reduplicate syllable of a verb. 6. Near or proximate.

Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Etymological or Referential Information

2 definitions
See the root aś and as.

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

See 2 abhyas.

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Philosophical or Religious Practice/Doctrine

2 definitions
inculcation of a truth conveyed in sacred writings through repetition of the same word or passage

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the effort of the mind to remain in its unmodified condition of purity

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Repetition

2 definitions
repetition

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

repetition of the last verse of a stanza or the last word of a chapter

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Study and Learning

2 definitions
repeated reading, study

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

study

Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

Act of Adding (General)

1 definition
the act of adding anything

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Mathematical Multiplication

1 definition
multiplication

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Proximity, Vicinity, Pervasion

1 definition
reaching to, pervading

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 11 works: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.