# अमावस्या (amāvasyā)

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अमावस्या (amāvasyā) is a Sanskrit word meaning the day of the new moon, a sacrifice offered on the night of the new moon, the sacrificial oblation. Its 5 recorded definitions are grouped into 3 contexts, among them Sacrifice or Sacrificial Oblation, The New Moon Day, Linguistic/Grammatical Reference.

- **SLP1:** `amAvasyA`  **IAST:** amāvasyā  **Devanagari:** अमावस्या
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amavasya
- **Declensions:** 24 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/amavasya/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** आमावास्य (āmāvāsya), अमावास्या (amāvāsyā), अमावास्य (amāvāsya)

## Meanings by context

### Sacrifice or Sacrificial Oblation (2 definitions)
- A sacrifice offered on the night of the new moon.  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अमावस्या (amāvasyā) [Printed book page 0151-a ] 2 A sacrifice offered at that time. [ ID=3812 ]
- The sacrificial oblation  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अमावस्या (amāvasyā) [Printed book page 0151-a ] 3 The sacrificial oblation. [ ID=3812 ]

### The New Moon Day (2 definitions)
- The day of the new moon.  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अमावस्या (amāvasyā) [Printed book page 0151-a ] 1 The day of new moon, when the sun and moon dwell together or are in conjunction; the 15th day of the dark half of every lunar month; सूर्याचंद्रमसोः यः परः (sūryācaṃdramasoḥ yaḥ paraḥ) सन्निकर्षः साऽमावास्या (sannikarṣaḥ sā'māvāsyā) Gobhila. [ ID=3812 ]
- The day of the new moon, or the fifteenth day of the dark half of the lunar month.  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अमावस्या (amāvasyā) [Printed book page 057-06 ] अमाव ( वा ) स्या (amāva(vā)syā) f. The day of the conjunction of the sun and the moon, the newmoon-day, the fifteenth day of the dark half of lunar month. ( सूर्याचन्द्रमसोर्यः परः सन्निकर्षः साऽमावस्या (sūryācandramasoryaḥ paraḥ sannikarṣaḥ sā'māvasyā).) [ ID=2940 ]

### Linguistic/Grammatical Reference (1 definition)
- the day of the new moon  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H3) [Printed book page 81,2] अमा (amā) — वस्या (—vasyā) f. = - वास्या (-vāsyā), q.v., Kāṭhaka (Literary category); Pāṇini (Author) iii, 1, 122. [ ID=14016 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899); Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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