स्पर्शsparśa

स्पर्श (sparśa) is a Sanskrit word meaning see page 1269, touching, touch or the sense of touch, contact, the twenty-five stop consonants from k to m, the quality of tangibility. Its 28 recorded definitions are grouped into 14 contexts, among them Touch, Contact, Sensation, Tangibility / Specific Tactile Qualities, Cross-Reference / Meta-Information.

Root: स्पृश् (spṛś)
Etymology: E. स्पृश् to touch, aff. घञ्; or स्पर्श् to take, &c., अच् aff
Definitions: 28

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Meanings by context

Touch, Contact, Sensation

11 definitions

touching

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Touch or the sense of touch. 2. Contact.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

feeling, sensation

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. Touching. 2. Touch, contact, or sensation. 3. The sense of touch. 4. A mute or nasal letter.

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Touch or contact. 2. The thing touching or feeling. 3. A gift or donation. 4. Sickness or disease. 5. Morbid heat. 6. A consonant of the first five classes of the alphabet. 7. An enemy, disease, or source of distress. 8. Air or wind. 9. An unchaste woman.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Touch, the thing touching, air, gift, sickness, or cause of trouble. 2. A wanton woman.

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Touching or contact. 2. Sexual union. 3. Collision or conflict. 4. Tangibility. 5. Feeling or sensation. 6. Anything that touches. 7. Sickness or fever. 8. Air or wind. 9. A class of consonants in Sanskrit grammar. 10. Contact in astronomy. 11. A presentation or gift. 12. A spy.

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Touch or contact. 2. The agent of touch. 3. A gift. 4. Sickness or disease. 5. Morbid heat. 6. A plosive consonant. 7. An enemy or source of distress. 8. Air or wind. 9. Sexual union. 10. Collision or conflict. 11. Astronomical contact. 12. Tangibility. 13. Feeling or sensation. 14. A spy. 15. An unchaste woman.

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Touch, feeling, contact. 2. Sexual intercourse. 3. Gift or donation. 4. The thing touching. 5. Air or wind. 6. An agent of pain. 7. Morbid heat. 8. A wanton woman.

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Touching or penetrating. 2. Touch, contact, or the perception of feeling.

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Touching or touch. 2. Sexual union. 3. Collision or conflict. 4. Tangibility. 5. Feeling or sensation. 6. Disease or fever. 7. Wind. 8. A consonant. 9. A gift or offering. 10. A spy. 11. A wanton woman.

[Printed book page 1151-a]
Sparśa, as, m. touching, touch, perception by

touch, handling, contact; sexual union; collision, con-

flict, encounter (= sam-parāya); the quality of tangi-

bility (which is the Viṣaya for the skin; see sāṅ-

khya); feeling, sensation; anything which touches

or comes in contact, (eleven such Sparśas are enume-

rated, viz. 1. uṣṇa, hot; 2. śīta, cold; 3. sukha,

pleasant; 4. duḥkha, painful; 5. snigdha, greasy;

6. viśada, clean; 7. khara, hard; 8. mṛdu, soft;

9. ślakṣṇa, smooth; 10. laghu, light; 11. guru,

heavy); who or what affects or acts upon or in-

fluences; affection, morbid affection or influence, any-

thing the contact or influence of which causes pain

or disease, disorder, sickness, fever; air, wind; a

consonant of any of the five classes of Gutturals,

Palatals, Cerebrals, Dentals, and Labials (so called be-

cause the first four are pronounced by the contact of

the tongue with the four places of utterance [see

sthāna, spṛṣṭa], throat, palate, top of palate, and

teeth; the fifth class or labials being formed by contact

of the lips); contact (in astron.); presentation, gift,

donation, offering, (kāka-sparśa, a particular cere-

mony on the tenth day after a death, putting out a lump

of rice as an offering for the crows); a spy (probably

for spaśa, q. v.); (ā), f. a wanton or unchaste wo-

man. —Sparśa-tanmātra, am, n. the subtile ele-

ment of tangibility, (see sāṅkhya.) —Sparśa-tā,

f. a state of contact, touching. —Sparśa-maṇi,

is, m. ‘touch-stone,’ a kind of stone (supposed to

turn everything it touches to gold), the philo-

sopher's stone. —Sparśamaṇi-prabhava, am, n.

‘touchstone-production,’ gold. —Sparśa-lajjā, f.

‘shrinking from touch,’ the sensitive plant, Mimosa

Pudica. —Sparśa-vat, ān, atī, at, having tangi-

bility, palpable; agreeable to the touch, smooth,

soft. —Sparśa-varga, as, m. a class of consonants,

(see under sparśa). —Sparśa-vedya, as, ā, am, to

be known or apprehended by the sense of touch.

—Sparśa-śuddhā, f. ‘pure to the touch,’ the plant

Asparagus Racemosus. —Sparśa-sukha, am, n. the

pleasure of touch. —Sparśa-snāna, am, n. ablution

at the ingress of the sun or moon into an eclipse.

—Sparśa-syanda, as, m. a frog (also written

sparśa-spanda). —Sparśānandā (°śa-ān°), f.

‘touch-delighting,’ N. of an Apsaras. —Sparśodaya

(°śa-ud°), as, ā, am, having a consonant succeed-

ing, followed by a consonant. [ID=53357]

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Tangibility / Specific Tactile Qualities

3 definitions

the quality of tangibility

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a quality perceptible by touch such as heat, cold, smoothness, or softness

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

temperature

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Cross-Reference / Meta-Information

2 definitions

See page 1269

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

See sparshana

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Proper Name / Personification

2 definitions

touch

— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

a Tushita

— The Purana Index

Air or Wind

1 definition

air or wind

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Gift or Offering

1 definition

a gift or offering

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Grammatical Term: Consonants

1 definition

the twenty-five stop consonants from k to m

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Meaning Unknown in Context

1 definition

A word of unknown meaning.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Pleasant Sensation

1 definition

pleasant feeling

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Sexual Union

1 definition

a kind of sexual union

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Spy / Incorrect Reading for Spaśa

1 definition

a spy

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Unchaste Woman (sparśā)

1 definition

an unchaste woman

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Unpleasant Sensation / Illness

1 definition

An unpleasant or morbid sensation, or illness.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Verbal Root Meaning

1 definition

1. To take. 2. To unite or join.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

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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, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.