# अन्नमय (annamaya)

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अन्नमय (annamaya) is a Sanskrit word meaning made from food or composed of food, consisting of food or containing boiled rice, composed of or derived from food, the body, full of food, chiefly consisting of boiled rice and similar food. Its 10 recorded definitions are grouped into 3 contexts, among them Materially Composed of Food / The Body, Metaphysical: Food as Sheath/Manifestation, Abundance of Food.

- **SLP1:** `annamaya`  **IAST:** annamaya  **Devanagari:** अन्नमय
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/annamaya/declensions.md

## Meanings by context

### Materially Composed of Food / The Body (5 definitions)
- made from food or composed of food  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H3) [Printed book page 45,1] अन्न (anna) — मय (—maya) mf( ई (ī) )n. made from food, composed of food or of boiled rice. [ ID=8525 ]
- 1. Composed of or derived from food. 2. The body.  
  *Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अन्न (anna) मय (annamaya) [Printed book page 040 ] अन्न (anna) मय (annamaya) mfn. ( - यः (-yaḥ)- यी - यं (-yaḥ-yī-yaṃ) ) Composed of food, containing food. 2 Derived or made from food. m. ( - यः (-yaḥ) ) The body. E. अन्न (anna) and मयट् (mayaṭ) aff. [ ID=1867 ]
- 1. Full of food. 2. The body.  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अन्नमय (annamaya) [Printed book page 032-a ] अन्नमय (annamaya) ( यः - या - यं ) ((yaḥ-yā-yaṃ)) a. Full of food. m. The body. [ ID=1550 ]
- 1. Composed of or derived from food. 2. The body.  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अन्न (anna) मय (annamaya) [Printed book page 033-b ] अन्न (anna) मय (annamaya) mfn. ( - यः (-yaḥ)- यी - यं (-yaḥ-yī-yaṃ) ) 1. Composed of food, containing food. 2. Derived or made from food. m. ( - यः (-yaḥ) ) The body. E. अन्न (anna) and मयट् (mayaṭ) aff. [ ID=1865 ]
- consisting of food  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अन्नमय (annamaya) [Printed book page 025 ] अन्नमय (annamaya) a. consisting of food. [ ID=1729 ]

### Metaphysical: Food as Sheath/Manifestation (3 definitions)
- Consisting of food or containing boiled rice  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अन्न (anna) मय (annamaya) [Printed book page 0098-a ] अन्न (anna) मय (annamaya) a. ( यी (yī) f. ) Consisting or made of food, composed of or containing boiled rice; ° कोश (kośa) ः - षः (°kośaḥ-ṣaḥ) the gross material body, the स्थूलशरीर (sthūlaśarīra), which is sustained by food and which is the fifth or last vesture or wrapper of the soul; see अन्न (anna) (2) above and also कोश (kośa); hence, also the material world, the coarsest or lowest form in which Brahma is considered as manifesting itself in the worldly existence
- Consisting of food or of the essence of elementary creation  
  *Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अन्नमय (annamaya) [Printed book page 0029-b ] अन्नमय (annamaya) anna + maya, adj., f. yī. Consisting of food in a metaphysical sense, i. e. of the essence of the elemen- tary creation, Vedāntas. in Chr. 209, 12. [ ID=565 ]
- 1. Consisting of or formed by food or the mystical principle of anna. 2. Chiefly consisting of boiled rice and similar food. 3. Plenty of food or boiled rice.  
  *Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अन्न (anna) मय (annamaya) [Printed book page 135-b ] अन्न (anna) मय (annamaya) 1. m. f. n. ( - यः - यी - यम् (-yam) (-yaḥ-yī-yam) ) 1 Made of, consisting of, the metaphysical or mystical अन्न (anna) (2. 2.) q. v.; e. g. अन्न (anna) मय (annamaya) ं हि सोम्यं (annamayaṃ hi somyaṃ) मनः; (manaḥ;) the quality of the Supreme Soul in its lowest form of manifestation; see अन्न (anna) 2. 2, प्राणमय, मनोमय, विज्ञानमय (prāṇamaya, manomaya, vijñānamaya) and आनन्दमय; (ānandamaya;) comp. also अन्न (anna) रस (annarasa) मय; अन्न (anna) मय (annamaya) ो रसः, (annarasamaya; annamayo rasaḥ,) the same as अन्न (anna) रस (annarasa) (2. b.) q. v. 2 Chiefly (but not entirely) consisting of boiled rice &c. (see the meanings of अन्न (anna) ); e. g. अन्न (anna) मय (annamaya) ो यज्ञः (annamayo yajñaḥ). 2. n. ( - यम् (-yam) ) Plenty of boiled rice, food &c. [The two latter meanings of this word result from the different inter- pretation of the commentators on Pāṇ. V. 4. 21; as regards the first, it may be observed that अन्न (anna) मय (annamaya) is not allowed to mean ‘made of, or consisting of, food, boiled rice &c.’ in the usual, non-mystical sense of this word; the word expressing this notion is आन्न (ānna).] E. अन्न (anna), (anna,) taddh. aff. मयट् (mayaṭ). [ ID=4130 ]

### Abundance of Food (2 definitions)
- Plenty of food.  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > — यं (yaṃ) Plenty of food. [ ID=2159 ]
- plenty of food  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > अन्नमय (annamaya) [Printed book page 032-14 ] अन्न - मय (anna-maya) n. plenty of food. [ ID=1840 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary; 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, University of Cologne.

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