भोगbhoga

भोग (bhoga) is a Sanskrit word meaning a coil or curve, especially of a serpent, the expanded hood of a snake, a particular kind of military array, the body, enjoyment, eating, or feeding on, use, application. Its 34 recorded definitions are grouped into 7 contexts, among them Enjoyment, Use, Experience, Possession, and Sustenance, Serpent, Coil, Body, and Related Forms, Astronomical Applications.

Roots
1. भुज् (1. bhuj), 3. भुज् (3. bhuj), 2. भुज् (2. bhuj)
Etymology
E. भुज् to eat, &c. aff. घञ् ।
Definitions
34
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Meanings by context

Enjoyment, Use, Experience, Possession, and Sustenance

18 definitions
enjoyment, eating, or feeding on

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

use, application

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

fruition, usufruct, or the use of a deposit

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

rule or sway over a country

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

experiencing, feeling, or perceiving

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Profit, utility, or advantage. 2. Pleasure or delight.

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

any object of enjoyment

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

possession, property, wealth, revenue

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

wages, especially of prostitution

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Eating, consuming, or enjoying. 2. Fruition, use, or application. 3. Usufruct or property revenue. 4. Sexual enjoyment. 5. Rule or sway. 6. Feeling or perception. 7. Utility, advantage, pleasure, or joy. 8. An object of enjoyment.

Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Pleasure or enjoyment. 2. Wealth. 3. Nourishing or cherishing. 4. Eating. 5. A snake's body. 6. A snake's expanded hood. 7. Hire. 8. The hire of dancing girls or courtesans. 9. A snake. 10. An army in column. 11. The numerator of a fraction.

Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Pleasure or enjoyment. 2. Eating. 3. Hire. 4. Wealth.

Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Eating. 2. Use or enjoyment. 3. Advantage or utility. 4. Sexual enjoyment. 5. Rule or government. 6. Experiencing or suffering. 7. Food or a banquet. 8. Any object of enjoyment. 9. Gain, profit, or wealth. 10. Pleasure or luxury. 11. A coil or curve. 12. The expanded hood or body of a snake. 13. A snake.

Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Pleasure or enjoyment. 2. Wealth. 3. Nourishing. 4. Eating or food. 5. A snake's body. 6. A snake's expanded hood. 7. Hire. 8. The hire of dancing girls or courtezans. 9. A snake. 10. An army in column. 11. The numerator of a fraction. 12. A repost. 13. Food offered to an idol. 14. Gain. 15. Rule or government. 16. Experiencing. 17. Advantage. 18. The use of a deposit.

Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. A snake's body or expanded hood. 2. A snake. 3. Feasting, nourishing, or food. 4. An army in column. 5. Pleasure or enjoyment. 6. Usufruct. 7. Possession or wealth. 8. Hire, including the hire of dancing girls.

Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Enjoyment, use, or possession. 2. Dominion or government. 3. Feeling, perception, or pleasure.

Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

enjoyment, or the use of food and eating

Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

1. Enjoyment or fruition. 2. Eating. 3. Use or application. 4. Usufruct or the use of a deposit. 5. Utility, advantage, or profitable aim. 6. Sexual enjoyment. 7. Possession. 8. Ruling, governing, protecting, or rule. 9. Cherishing or nourishing. 10. Suffering or experiencing. 11. Enduring, feeling, or perception of joy or sorrow. 12. Passion. 13. Food or any object of enjoyment. 14. Food offered to an idol. 15. A feast, banquet, or festivity. 16. Income or revenue. 17. Gain, profit, or produce. 18. Money or wealth. 19. Hire or wages of prostitution. 20. In astronomy, the passing of an asterism or the part of the ecliptic occupied by a lunar mansion. 21. In arithmetic, the numerator of a fraction. 22. Name of a preceptor.

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Astronomical Applications

2 definitions
the passing through a constellation

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the part of the ecliptic occupied by each of the 27 lunar mansions

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Proper Nouns (Names)

2 definitions
Name of a teacher

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the name of a Surangana

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Linguistic/Textual Note

1 definition
a wrong reading for bhogyah or bhagyam

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Mathematical Application (Numerator)

1 definition
the numerator of a fraction

Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Sexual Enjoyment (Specific Focus)

1 definition
sexual enjoyment

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, 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, The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.