# उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa)

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उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) is a Sanskrit word meaning left, rejected, or stale, spit out from the mouth, that which is spit out, leavings, fragments, or remainder, left as a remainder, rejected, abandoned. Its 20 recorded definitions are grouped into 4 contexts, among them Adjective: Leftover, Rejected, Stale, Noun: Leavings, Remnants, Ritually Impure Person.

- **Root:** शिष् (śiṣ)
- **Etymology:** E. उत् up, शिष to leave as a residue, and क्त aff — E. ut up, śiṣa to leave as a residue, and kta aff
- **SLP1:** `ucCizwa`  **IAST:** ucchiṣṭa  **Devanagari:** उच्छिष्ट
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchchhishta
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/uchchhishta/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** उच्छिष्टा (ucchiṣṭā)

## Meanings by context

### Adjective: Leftover, Rejected, Stale (12 definitions)
- left, rejected, or stale  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2) [Printed book page 173,3] उच् - छिष्ट (uc-chiṣṭa) mfn. left, rejected, stale [ ID=30413 ]
- Left as a remainder  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) [Printed book page 0287-c ] उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) p. p. 1 Left as a remainder
- Rejected, abandoned  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) [Printed book page 0287-c ] उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) p. p. 2 Rejected, abandoned; अन् (an) ° (°) Raghuvaṃśa (Bombay) 12. 15
- stale  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) [Printed book page 0287-c ] उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) p. p. 3 Stale; ° कल्पना (°kalpanā) stale idea or invention
- 1. Left over. 2. Ritually impure from leftover food. 3. A remnant or leavings.  
  *Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) [Printed book page 048-2 ] उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) úc-chiṣṭa, pp. (√śiṣ) left over; having a remnent of food ( in the mouth or hands ), ritually impure; n. remnant, leavings ( esp. of a sacrifice or of food ): -tā, f. impurity; condition of a remnent; -ṃ nī, = almost entirely devour- -aśana, n. easting of remnants. [ ID=4311 ]
- 1. Left or rejected as food. 2. Left or abandoned.  
  *Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) [Printed book page 138 ] उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) mfn. ( - ष्टः - ष्टा - ष्टं (-ṣṭaḥ-ṣṭā-ṣṭaṃ) ) 1 Left, rejected as food; (i. e. spit out of the mouth, or orts, crumbs, fragments, &c.) 2 Left, abandoned. E. उत् (ut) up, शिष (śiṣa) to leave as a residue, and क्त (kta) aff. [ ID=6627 ]
- Left as food  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) [Printed book page 113-a ] उच्छि _ ष्ट (ucchi_ṣṭa) ( ष्टः - ष्टा - ष्टं ) ((ṣṭaḥ-ṣṭā-ṣṭaṃ)) a. Left (as food.) [ ID=6018 ]
- Abandoned  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) [Printed book page 122-25 ] उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) (I) a. (f. ष्टा (ṣṭā) ) Abandoned. [ ID=6041 ]
- 1. Left or rejected as food. 2. Left or abandoned.  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) [Printed book page 113-b ] उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) mfn. ( - ष्टः - ष्टा - ष्टं (-ṣṭaḥ-ṣṭā-ṣṭaṃ) ) 1. Left, rejected as food; (i. e. spit out of the mouth, or orts, crumbs, fragments, &c.) 2. Left, abandoned. E. उत् (ut) up, शिष् (śiṣ) to leave as a residue, and क्त (kta) aff. [ ID=6625 ]
- 1. Left, rejected, or impure. 2. Leavings, especially of food.  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) [Printed book page 080 ] उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) a. left, rejected, impure ( pers. & th. ). n. leavings, esp. of the sacrificial food; abstr. ° ता (°tā) † f. [ ID=5213 ]
- 1. Left. 2. Leavings, especially of food or a sacrifice.  
  *Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary*
  > उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) [Printed book page 131-b ] úcchiṣṭa, ppl. left; as n. leavings, esp. of a sacrifice or of food. [ √śiṣ + ud. ] [ ID=776 ]
- 1. Left, rejected, or stale. 2. Having the remains of food on the mouth or hands and considered impure. 3. Leavings, fragments, or remainder.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) [Printed book page 0146-b ] Uc-chiṣṭa, as, ā, am, left, rejected, stale; having the remains of food on the mouth or hands, one who has not washed his hands and mouth and there- fore is considered impure; ( am ), n. leavings, frag- ments, remainder (especially of a sacrifice or of food). —Ucchiṣṭa-kalpanā, f. a stale invention. —Uc- chiṣṭa-gaṇapati, is, m. (opposed to śuddha-ga- ṇapati ), Gaṇeśa as worshipped by the Ucchiṣṭas or men who leave the remains of food in their mouth during prayer. —Ucchiṣṭa-tā, f. the being left, state of being a remnant or remainder. —Ucchiṣṭa-bho- jana, am, n. eating the leavings of another man; ( as ), m. one who eats another's leavings; the attendant upon an idol, whose food is the leavings of offerings. —Ucchiṣṭa-bhojin, ī, inī, i, or ucchiṣṭa- Page0146-c+ 73 bhoktṛ, tā, trī, tṛ, an eater of leavings, a mean person. —Ucchiṣṭa-modana, am, n. wax. —Ucchi- ṣṭānna (°ṭa-an°), as, ā, am, leavings, offal. [ ID=10238 ]

### Noun: Leavings, Remnants (5 definitions)
- spit out from the mouth  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > spit out of the mouth (as remnants of food), TS.; ChUp.; ŚBr.; MBh.; Yājñ. &c. [ ID=30414 ]
- that which is spit out  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > उच् - छिष्ट (uc-chiṣṭa) n. that which is spit out [ ID=30416 ]
- leavings, fragments, or remainder, especially of a sacrifice or food  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > leavings, fragments, remainder (especially of a sacrifice or of food), AV.; ŚBr.; KātyŚr.; Mn.; ĀśvGṛ. &c. [ ID=30417 ]
- Leavings, fragments, or remainder of food or sacrifice.  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > — ष्टं (ṣṭaṃ) 1 Leavings, fragments, remainder (especially of food or sacrifice); नोच्छिष्टं (ṣṭaṃ) कस्यचिद् (nocchiṣṭaṃ kasyacid) दद्यात् (dadyāt) Manusmṛti 2. 56; so द्विज (dvija) °, गृध्र ° (°, gṛdhra°)
- Leavings or fragments, especially of food.  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) (II) n. Leavings, fragments. remainder (especially of food). [ ID=6042 ]

### Ritually Impure Person (2 definitions)
- Impure due to having unwashed hands or food remnants in the mouth.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > one who has still the remains of food in the mouth or hands, one who has not washed his hands and mouth and therefore is considered impure, impure, Gaut.; Mn. [ ID=30415 ]
- impure from not washing the mouth and hands after a meal  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) [Printed book page 0287-c ] उच्छिष्ट (ucchiṣṭa) p. p. 4 (Used actively) One who has not washed his mouth and hands after meals, and hence considered impure; न चोच्छिष्टः क्वचिद् (na cocchiṣṭaḥ kvacid) व्रजेत् (vrajet) Manusmṛti 2. 56

### Specific Nouns/Entities (e.g., Honey, Goddess) (1 definition)
- Honey  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > — ष्टं (ṣṭaṃ) 2 Honey

## Sources

Definitions from Apte Practical 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; 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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