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क्लेशkleśa

क्लेश (kleśa) is a Sanskrit word meaning pain, affliction, distress, and anguish, three bodily actions, four of speech, and three of the mind, wrath, anger, worldly occupation, care, trouble, pain, affliction, distress, or anguish, worldly occupation, care, or trouble. Its 17 recorded definitions are grouped into 7 contexts, among them Noun 'Kleśa': Multiple Core Meanings, Pain / Suffering / Distress, Etymological Note (Root √kliś).

Root
क्लिश् (kliś)
Etymology
E. क्लिश to suffer or inflict pain, affix घञ्
Definitions
17
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Meanings by context

Noun 'Kleśa': Multiple Core Meanings

5 definitions
1. Pain, affliction, or distress. 2. Anguish from disease. 3. Worldly trouble or care. 4. Anger.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Pain. 2. Care. 3. Anger.

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Pain, anguish, or suffering. 2. Wrath or anger. 3. Worldly occupation.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Pain, affliction, or distress. 2. Anguish, trouble, or worldly care. 3. Wrath or anger.

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Pain, affliction, distress, or anguish. 2. Anger. 3. Worldly occupation, care, or trouble.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Pain / Suffering / Distress

5 definitions
pain, affliction, distress, and anguish

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

torment, pain, suffering, affliction, distress

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Pain

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

affliction, pain, distress

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

pain, trouble

— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

Etymological Note (Root √kliś)

2 definitions
See the root klish.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

See under the root klish.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Anger / Wrath

1 definition
wrath, anger

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Philosophical 'Kleśas'

1 definition
1. Ignorance, egotism, desire, aversion, and tenacity of mundane existence. 2. Three bodily actions, four of speech, and three of the mind.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Worldly Occupation / Care

1 definition
worldly occupation, care, trouble

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 10 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, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.