# स्वप्न (svapna)

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स्वप्न (svapna) is a Sanskrit word meaning sleep or sleeping, sleepiness or drowsiness, excessive sleep, sloth, and indolence, dreaming or a dream, sleeping well, a dream or dreaming. Its 17 recorded definitions are grouped into 8 contexts, among them Sleep and/or Dream, Dream Lore and Interpretation, Dream.

- **Roots:** दृश् (dṛś), स्वप् (svap)
- **Etymology:** E. ष्वप to sleep, न Uṇādi aff., तन् aff — E. ṣvapa to sleep, na Uṇādi aff., tan aff
- **SLP1:** `svapna`  **IAST:** svapna  **Devanagari:** स्वप्न
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svapna
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/svapna/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** स्वाप्न (svāpna)

## Meanings by context

### Sleep and/or Dream (9 definitions)
- 1. Sleep. 2. A dream. 3. Sleepiness. 4. Sloth.  
  *Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > स्वप्न (svapna) [Printed book page 370-3 ] स्वप्न (svapna) sváp-na, m. V., C. : sleep; dream ( ord. mg. ); C.; sleepiness ( rare ); addiction to sleep, sloth ( rare ): -ṃ dṛś or paś, see a vision, dream. [ ID=20200 ]
- 1. Sleep. 2. A dream.  
  *Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > स्वप्न (na) (svapna) [Printed book page 962 ] स्वप्न (na) (svapna) m. ( - प्न (na) ः (-pnaḥ) ) 1 Sleep. 2 Dreaming, a dream. E. ष्वप (ṣvapa) to sleep, न (na) Uṇādi aff., तन (na) ् (tan) aff. [ ID=43610 ]
- 1. Dreaming. 2. A dream.  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > स्वप्न (svapna) [Printed book page 886-a ] स्वप्न (svapna) ( प्नः ) ((pnaḥ)) 1. m. Idem; dreaming; a dream. [ ID=43410 ]
- 1. Sleep. 2. A dream. 3. Indolence or sleepiness.  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > स्वप्न (svapna) [Printed book page 820-18 ] स्वप्न (svapna) m. 1. Sleep, sleeping, रसातलादिवोन्मग्नं शेषं स्वप्न (svapna) ाय शार्ङ्गिणः (rasātalādivonmagnaṃ śeṣaṃ svapnāya śārṅgiṇaḥ) R. xii.70; 2. dream, dreaming, स्वप्न (svapna) ो नु माया नु मतिभ्रमो नु (svapno nu māyā nu matibhramo nu) Sak. vi., दृष्टः स्वप्न (svapna) े कितव रमयन् कामपि त्वं मयेति (dṛṣṭaḥ svapne kitava ramayan kāmapi tvaṃ mayeti) Megh. ii.48; 3. indolence, sleepiness. [ ID=42674 ]
- 1. Sleep. 2. A dream. 3. Indolence or sleepiness.  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > स्वप्न (na) (svapna) [Printed book page 821-a ] स्वप्न (na) (svapna) m. ( - प्न (na) ः (-pnaḥ) ) 1. Sleep. 2. Dreaming, a dream. 3. Indolence, sleepiness. E. ष्वप् (ṣvap) to sleep, न (na) Unādi aff., तन (na) ् (tan) added. [ ID=46150 ]
- 1. Sleep. 2. Indolence. 3. Dreaming. 4. A dream.  
  *Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > स्वप्न (svapna) [Printed book page 1096-a ] स्वप्न (svapna) svap + na, m. 1. Sleep, Ve- dāntas. in Chr. 208, 6. 2. Indolence, Man. 12, 33. 3. Dreaming. 4. A dream, Vikr. d. 29; Pañc. 134, 6. — Comp. Jāgratsvapna, i. e. jāgrant-, m. waking and sleeping, Man. 1, 57. Divā-, m. sleeping by day, Man. 7, 47. Dus-, m. an inauspicious dream, Rām. 2, 71, 23 Gorr. Su-, m. a lucky dream. — Cf. A.S. swefn; Lat. somnus; ὕπνος. [ ID=16855 ]
- sleep, dream  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > स्वप्न (svapna) [Printed book page 651 ] स्वप्न (svapna) m. sleep, dream. [ ID=38918 ]
- 1. Sleep. 2. A dream.  
  *Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary*
  > स्वप्न (svapna) [Printed book page 283-a ] svápna, m. —1. sleep; —2. dream. [ √svap, q. v. : cf. ὕπ-νο-ς, Lat. som-nu-s, ‘sleep’; AS. swef-n, ‘sleep, dream’; Chaucerian swefn, ‘dream’; Lat. somnium, ‘dream’: for connection of 1 and 2, cf. 51 9, where either sense fits.] [ ID=4817 ]
- 1. Sleep or sleeping. 2. A dream or dreaming. 3. Sleepiness, sloth, or indolence.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > स्वप्न (svapna) [Printed book page 1160-a ] Svapna, as, m. sleep, sleeping; a dream, dream- ing; sleepiness, sloth, indolence; ( ā ), f. a dream, ( jāgrat-svapnābhyām, inst. du. by alternately wak- ing and sleeping.) —Svapna-kāma, as, ā, am, wish- ing for sleep. —Svapna-kṛt, t, t, t, causing or producing sleep, somniferous, soporific, narcotic; ( t ), n. the pot-herb Marsilea Quadrifolia. —Svapna- gṛha, am, n. a sleeping apartment, bed-chamber. —Svapna-ja, as, ā, am, produced in sleep. —Svapna-doṣa, as, m. ‘sleep-fault,’ pollutio noc- turna. —Svapna-dhī-gamya, as, ā, am, perceptible by the intellect (only when) in a state of sleep-like abstraction, (Manu XII. 122.) —Svapna-naṃśana, as, m. sleep-destroying, (see Nirukta XII. 28.) —Svapna-niketana, am, n. a sleeping-room, bed- chamber. —Svapna-prapañca, as, m. the illusions of sleep, the world as presented in a dream. —Svap- na-bhāj, k, k, k, enjoying sleep. —Svapna-vat, ind. like a dream. —Svapna-vicāra, as, m. inter- pretation of dreams. —Svapna-vicārin, ī, m. an interpreter of dreams. —Svapna-śīla, as, ā, am, disposed to sleep, sleepy, drowsy. —Svapna-sṛṣṭi, is, f. the creation of dreams or illusions in sleep. —Svapnādhyāya (°na-adh°), as, m. ‘a chapter on dreams,’ N. of a short work on the interpretation of dreams, (said to be extracted from the Brahma- vaivarta-Purāṇa.) —Svapnāvasthā (°na-av°), f. state of dreaming, (applied to life as a state of illusion.) —Svapneśvara (°na-īś°), as, m., N. of the author of a commentary on the Śāṇḍilya-sūtra. —Svapnopama (°na-up°), as, ā, am, having the likeness of sleep, resembling a dream. [ ID=53716 ]

### Dream Lore and Interpretation (2 definitions)
- Dreams  
  *The Purana Index*
  > स्वप्न (svapna) [Printed book page 3-726 ] Svapna — dreams, bad and good; ceremonies must be performed for bad ones; after a bad dream, one must try to sleep for sometime; after a good dream one must try to be awake lest it should be followed by a bad one for the latter will generally come true. Dream had in the first of the four divisions of the night will come true in a year; that had in the second will come true in six months; that had in the third, will come true in three months and that had early in the morning will come true in 10 days. M. 242. 1-19. [ ID=17016 ]
- dream  
  *The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects*
  > स्वप्न (svapna) [Printed book page 2-493 ] Svapna, ‘dream,’ is referred to in the Rigveda 1 and later. 2 Evil dreams 3 are often mentioned. The Āraṇyakas of the Rigveda 4 contain a list of dreams with their signification, as well as of pratyakṣa-darśanāni, ‘sights seen with one's own eyes.’ [ Footnote: 1) ii. 28, 10; x. 162, 6.] [ Footnote: 2) Av. vii. 101, 1; x. 3, 6; Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xx. 16; Śatapatha Brāh- maṇa, iii. 2, 2, 23, etc.] [ Footnote: 3) Rv. ii. 28, 10; Av. x. 3, 6.] [ Footnote: 4) Aitareya Āraṇyaka, iii. 2, 4; Śāṅkh- āyana Āraṇyaka, xi. 3. Cf. Kauśika Sūtra, xlvi. 9 et seq.; Atharvaveda Pari- śiṣṭa, lxviii.] [ ID=3757 ]

### Dream (1 definition)
- dreaming or a dream  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > dreaming, a dream ( acc. with √ दृश् (dṛś), ‘to see a vision, dream’), RV.; &c. [ ID=258965 ]

### Grammatical/Referential Note (1 definition)
- sleeping well  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H1) [Printed book page 1281,1] स्व् - अप्न (sv-apna) b mfn. (for स्वप्न (svapna) See p. 1280) = next ( accord. to some), Ṛg-veda (Title) i, 120, 12; viii, 2, 18. [ ID=259060 ]

### Related Compound Meanings (1 definition)
- Bed-chamber  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > स्वप्न (svapna) निकेतन ( नं ) (niketana (naṃ)) 1. n. Bed-chamber. [ ID=43415 ]

### Sleep (1 definition)
- sleep or sleeping  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2) [Printed book page 1280,3] स्वप्न (svapna) a m. (once in R. n. ifc. f( आ (ā) ).; for स्व् - अप्न (sv-apna) See p. 1281, col. 1) sleep, sleeping, RV. &c. &c. [ ID=258962 ]

### Sleepiness / Drowsiness (1 definition)
- sleepiness or drowsiness  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > sleepiness, drowsiness, Caurap. [ ID=258963 ]

### Sloth / Indolence / Excessive Sleep (1 definition)
- excessive sleep, sloth, and indolence  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > sleeping too much, sloth, indolence, Manu-smṛti (Title) ix, 13; xii, 33 [ ID=258964 ]

## Sources

Definitions from 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; The Purana Index; The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects; Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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