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निद्राnidrā

निद्रा (nidrā) is a Sanskrit word meaning to fall asleep, sleep, or slumber, sleep, slumber, or sloth, the budding state of a flower, a mystic, the letter bh, sleep or fall asleep. Its 17 recorded definitions are grouped into 4 contexts, among them Sleep, Sleepiness, Sloth, Budding/Shutting State of Flowers, Verbal Root: To Sleep.

Roots
द्रै (drai), 1. द्रा (1. drā), त्यज् (tyaj), 2. द्रा (2. drā)
Etymology
E. णिद to condemn or censure, Uṇādi affix रक्; or द्रै to sleep, affix क्विप्, and नि prefixed
Definitions
17
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Meanings by context

Sleep, Sleepiness, Sloth

12 definitions
sleep, slumber, or sloth

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Sleep or sleepiness

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Sloth

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Sleep. 2. Sleepiness.

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Sleep. 2. Sleepiness. 3. Sloth.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Sleep

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Sleep or sleepiness. 2. The closing of flowers.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Sleep, sleepiness, or sloth. 2. A dream.

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Sleep. 2. Sleepiness.

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

sleep

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

sleep

— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

1. Sleep, slumber, or sloth. 2. A mystical name for the letter bh.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Budding/Shutting State of Flowers

2 definitions
the budding state of a flower

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Shutting, budding state

— Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Verbal Root: To Sleep

2 definitions
To fall asleep, sleep, or slumber.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

sleep or fall asleep

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Mystical Name for Letter 'bh'

1 definition
1. A mystic. 2. The letter bh.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 11 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), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.