पण्डित (paṇḍita) is a Sanskrit word meaning learned, wise, clever, a scholar, teacher, or philosopher, the name of a man, of a Brahman changed into an antelope, incense, a scholar, teacher, or learned man. Its 16 recorded definitions are grouped into 3 contexts, among them Learned, Wise, Scholar, Proper Noun or Specific Reference, Incense.
पण्डित (paṇḍita)m. a scholar, a learned man, teacher, philosopher, a Pandit, Mahābhārata (Title) ; Kāvya literature (Literary category) &c. [ID=114660]
1. Learned, wise, shrewd, or skilled.
2. A scholar, learned man, or pandit.
पण्डित (paṇḍita) [Printed book page 150-3] पण्डित (paṇḍita) paṇḍitá, a. learned; wise, shrewd; skilled in (—°); m. scholar, learned or wise man, Pandit: -tā,f., -tva,n. wisdom; skill in (—°); -buddhi,a. philosophic-minded; -mānika, -mānin,-ṃ manya,a. considering oneself wise; -sabhā,f. assembly of Pandits. [ID=11053]
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A scholar, teacher, or learned man. 2. Incense.
पण्डित (paṇḍita) [Printed book page 497] पण्डित (paṇḍita) m. (-तः (-taḥ))
1 A scholar, a teacher, a Paṇḍita, a learned Brahman, or one read in sacred science, and teaching it to his disciples.
2 Incense.
E. पण्डा (paṇḍā) learning, इतच् (itac) aff.
[ID=22998]
— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
A learned man
पण्डित (paṇḍita) [Printed book page 443-b] पण्डित (paṇḍita)(तः) ((taḥ)) 1. m. A learned man. [ID=22469]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A learned scholar, teacher, or Brahman. 2. Incense. 3. Clever or proficient.
पण्डित (paṇḍita) [Printed book page 416-a] पण्डित (paṇḍita)
m. (-तः (-taḥ))
1. A scholar, a teacher, a Pandit, a learned Brāhman, or one read in sacred science, and teaching it to his disciples. 2. Incense.
3. Clever.
4. Proficient.
E. पण्डा (paṇḍā) learning, तार० इतच् (tāra0 itac) aff.
[ID=22984]
— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Learned, wise, shrewd, or skilled. 2. A scholar or wise man.
पण्डित (paṇḍita) [Printed book page 0503-b] पण्डित (paṇḍita)paṇḍita,I.adj. Learned,
wise, Bhartṛ. 2, 14; shrewd, Pañc. i.
d. 334; skilled, Rājat. 5, 164. II.m.
A scholar, a wise man, MBh. 5, 990.
[ID=8015]
— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Learned, educated, wise, or clever.
2. A scholar or teacher.
पण्डित (paṇḍita) [Printed book page 291] पण्डित (paṇḍita)a. learned, educated, wise, clever in, familiar with (—°); m. scholar, teacher. — Abstr. °त्व (°tva)† n. [ID=17691]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Learned.
2. A learned man.
पण्डित (paṇḍita) [Printed book page 185-b] paṇḍitá,a. learned; as m. learned man, Anglo-Indian pandit. [ID=2424]
— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary
1. Learned, wise, clever, skilled, or educated.
2. A scholar, wise man, learned Brahmin, teacher, philosopher, or adept.
3. Incense.
पण्डित (paṇḍita) [Printed book page 0527-a] Paṇḍita, as, ā, am [cf. paṇḍā], learned, wise; shrewd, skilled, clever, educated; (as), m. a scholar, learned or wise man, learned Brāhman, teacher, phi- losopher, Pandit; an adept, proficient; N. of a man; incense. —Paṇḍita-jātīya, as, ā, am, somewhat clever, rather learned. —Paṇḍita-tā, f. or paṇḍita-tva, am, n. learning, knowledge, wisdom, skilful- ness, cleverness. —Paṇḍita-buddhi, is, is, i, philo- sophically minded. —Paṇḍita-maṇḍala, am, n. an assembly or circle of learned men. —Paṇḍita-mānika, as, ā, am, or paṇḍita-mānin, ī, inī, i, or paṇḍitam-manya, as, ā, am, fancying one's self learned or clever; an ignorant and conceited person, a pedant who thinks himself a Pandit. —Paṇḍi-tam-manyamāna, as, ā, am, Ved. fancying one's self learned. —Paṇḍita-rāja, as, m. ‘the prince of the learned,’ an epithet of a great scholar. —Paṇḍita-vādin, ī, inī, i, pretending to be wise. —Paṇḍita-sabhā, f. an assembly of Pandits or literati. [ID=26834]
पण्डित (paṇḍita) [Printed book page 1-473] Paṇḍita, a ‘learned man,’ is not found until the Upaniṣad period.1 [Footnote: 1) Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, iii. 4, 1; vi. 4, 16. 17; Chāndogya Upaniṣad, vi. 14, 2; Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad, i. 2, 8, etc.] [ID=1658]
— The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects
Proper Noun or Specific Reference
4 definitions4
The name of a man
N. of a man (= °तक (°taka)), Mahābhārata (Title) [ID=114661]
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Definitions on this page come from 11 works:
Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, 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, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
