दयाdayā

दया (dayā) is a Sanskrit word meaning sympathy, compassion, pity, pity, tenderness, compassion, mercy, and sympathy, sympathy or compassion, sympathy, pity, kind, sympathetic, an epithet of Shiva. Its 13 recorded definitions are grouped into 5 contexts, among them Core Emotion: Compassion, Pity, Sympathy, Personification of Dayā, Adjectival/Qualitative Derivatives of Dayā.

Roots: कृ (kṛ), दय् (day)
Definitions: 13

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Meanings by context

Core Emotion: Compassion, Pity, Sympathy

8 definitions

sympathy, compassion, pity

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Pity, tenderness, compassion, mercy, and sympathy.

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Sympathy or compassion

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Sympathy, compassion, pity, mercy, and tenderness

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Compassion

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

sympathy, pity

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

sympathy, compassion

— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

1. Sympathy, compassion, pity, mercy, tenderness, love, or clemency. 2. Pity personified as a daughter of Daksha, wife of Dharma, and mother of Abhaya.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Personification of Dayā

2 definitions

Pity

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. A daughter of Daksha, wife of Dharma, and mother of Abhaya. 2. A shakti.

— The Purana Index

Adjectival/Qualitative Derivatives of Dayā

1 definition

kind, sympathetic

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Dayā-vīra: Heroic Compassion in Rhetoric

1 definition

Blood still flows from the mouths of my veins, and my body still has flesh; yet I do not see you satisfied, O Garuda, why have you ceased from eating?

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Epithets involving Dayā for Deities/Figures

1 definition

an epithet of Shiva

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

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Definitions on this page come from 9 works: Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 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), The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.