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परिणामpariṇāma

परिणाम (pariṇāma) is a Sanskrit word meaning change, transformation, or development, ripeness, maturity, digestion, withering or fading, lapse of time, decline of age. Its 16 recorded definitions are grouped into 8 contexts, among them Comprehensive or Multi-faceted Meanings, Temporal Processes (Aging, Decline, Fading, Lapse of Time), Result, Consequence, or End.

Definitions
16
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Meanings by context

Comprehensive or Multi-faceted Meanings

6 definitions
1. Change of form or state. 2. Maturity or ripeness. 3. End or last stage.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Change of form or state. 2. Maturity. 3. End.

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Transformation. 2. Digestion. 3. Result. 4. Conclusion or end. 5. Old age. 6. Ripening. 7. A rhetorical figure of speech.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Transformation or change. 2. Digestion. 3. Consequence. 4. Termination or end.

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Change, transformation, or development. 2. Digestion. 3. Fading or decay. 4. The course of time, advancement of age, or old age. 5. Consequence, result, or end.

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Change, alteration, or transformation. 2. Digestion. 3. Result, consequence, or effect. 4. End, close, or conclusion. 5. Growing old or advancing age. 6. The lapse of time. 7. A figure of speech transferring properties to a compared object.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Temporal Processes (Aging, Decline, Fading, Lapse of Time)

3 definitions
withering or fading

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

lapse of time

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

decline of age

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Result, Consequence, or End

2 definitions
result, consequence, or end

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

finally

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Change, Transformation, Development

1 definition
change, transformation, or development

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Digestion

1 definition
digestion

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Figure of Speech (Rhetoric)

1 definition
a figure of speech in which properties of an object are transferred to that with which it is compared

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Proper Noun (Name)

1 definition
Name of a holy man

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Ripening or Maturity

1 definition
ripeness, maturity

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

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Definitions on this page come from 7 works: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.