संघ (saṃgha) is a Sanskrit word meaning see samgha, any collection, assemblage, multitude, crowd, or host, a society, association, or community, a clerical community, congregation, or church, the collective body of monks in Buddhism and Jainism, a throng or multitude. Its 10 recorded definitions are grouped into 4 contexts, among them General Multitude or Collection, Religious Community or Monastic Order, Linguistic Cross-Reference.
Any collection, assemblage, multitude, crowd, or host.
(H1) [Printed book page 1129,3] सं-घ (saṃ-gha)bm. (fr.सम् (sam) + √हन् (han)) ‘close contact or combination’, any collection or assemblage, heap, multitude, quantity, crowd, host, number (generally with gen.pl. or ifc., e.g.मुनि-स् (muni-s)° (°), ‘a multitude of sages’, BhP.; शत्रु-स् (śatru-s)° (°), a host of enemies, Rājat.), MBh.; Kāv. &c. [ID=228728]
1. A throng or multitude. 2. A corporation. 3. A community, congregation, or brotherhood. 4. A religious sect among the Jains.
संघ (saṃgha) [Printed book page 328-3] संघ (saṃgha) saṃ-gha, m. [combination: √han] throng, multitude (nearly always with g. or —°); host of enemies (rare); corporation; community, congregation (B.); brotherhood, sect (among the Jains); incorr.for saṅga: -cārin,a. gregarious; -ghaṭana,n., ā,f. combination, union, with (—°); -ghaṭṭa,m. concussion, clashing together, collision, friction; combination, union, with (in.; rare); -ghaṭṭana,n. collision, clash; friction; n., ā,f. union; -ghaṭṭa-paṇita,n. wager; -ghātitha,a. numerous; -gharṣa,m. friction; rivalry, emulation, jealousy (regarding, prati,
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—°); -gharṣaṇa,n. friction; -gharṣayitṛ,m. rival; -gharṣa-śālin,a. jealous; -gharṣin,a.id., envious; vying with (—°); -gha-śas,ad. in great numbers. [ID=18546]
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A multitude, collection, or quantity. 2. A number of people living together.
संघ (saṃgha) [Printed book page 748-01] संघ (saṃgha)m. 1. Multitude, collection, quantity, R. xvi.38, 2. a number of people living together. [ID=39249]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Multitude or flock. 2. Quantity. 3. Inhabitants.
संघ (saṃgha) [Printed book page 0992-b] संघ (saṃgha)saṃgha,i. e.sam-han,m.1.
Multitude, Indr. 1, 36. 2. Flock, Hariv.
8788. 3. Quantity. 4. Inhabitants, Man.
8, 219.
[ID=15343]
— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary
band, company, crowd
संघ (saṃgha) [Printed book page 576] संघ (saṃgha)m. band, company, crowd. [ID=34232]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
company or crowd
संघ (saṃgha) [Printed book page 264-a] saṃgha,m. (a combination, i. e.) company, crowd. [√han + sam,333,cf.216. 9 and 402.] [ID=4357]
— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary
Religious Community or Monastic Order
2 definitions2
A clerical community, congregation, or church
a clerical community, congregation, church, Mn.; Sāh. &c. [ID=228730]
the collective body of monks in Buddhism and Jainism
(esp.) the whole community or collective body or brotherhood of monks (with Buddhists; also applied to a monkish fraternity or sect among Jainas), Buddh.; Sarvad.; Monier-Williams’ Buddhism in its connexion with Brāhmaṇism and Hindūism: and in its contrast with Christianity (Title) 176. [ID=228731]
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Definitions on this page come from 6 works:
Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
