# उत्सव (utsava)

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उत्सव (utsava) is a Sanskrit word meaning enterprise, beginning, a festival or jubilee, joy, gladness, and merriment, opening, blossoming, height, elevation, insolence. Its 18 recorded definitions are grouped into 9 contexts, among them Festival or Celebration, Enterprise or Beginning, Etymological Note or Reference.

- **Root:** 2. सु (2. su)
- **Etymology:** E. उत्, षू to bear, to bring forth, affix अच; happiness, &c. is produced by it — E. ut, ṣū to bear, to bring forth, affix aca; happiness, &c. is produced by it
- **SLP1:** `utsava`  **IAST:** utsava  **Devanagari:** उत्सव
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/utsava/declensions.md

## Meanings by context

### Festival or Celebration (6 definitions)
- a festival or jubilee  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > a festival, jubilee [ ID=31951 ]
- 1. A festival or jubilee. 2. Height or elevation. 3. Impatience. 4. A wish. 5. Passion or wrath.  
  *Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उत्सव (utsava) [Printed book page 144 ] उत्सव (utsava) m. ( - वः (-vaḥ) ) 1 A festival, a jubilee. 2 Height, elevation. 3 Impatience. 4 Wish. 5 Passion, wrath. E. उत्, षू (ut, ṣū) to bear, to bring forth, affix अच् (ac); happiness, &c. is produced by it. [ ID=6915 ]
- 1. A festival. 2. Elevation. 3. Passion. 4. Wish. 5. Impatience.  
  *Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उत्सव (utsava) [Printed book page 118-b ] उत्स _ व (utsa_va) ( वः ) ((vaḥ)) 1. m. A festival; elevation; passion; wish; impatience. [ ID=6315 ]
- 1. A festival or jubilee. 2. Joy or merry-making. 3. Height or elevation. 4. Wrath. 5. A wish.  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उत्सव (utsava) [Printed book page 128-10 ] उत्सव (utsava) m. 1. A festival, a jubilee, M. iii.59; 2. joy, merry-making, स कृत्वा विरतोत्सवान् (sa kṛtvā viratotsavān) R. iv.78, xvi.10; 3. height elevation; 4. wrath; 5. wish. [ ID=6306 ]
- 1. A festival or jubilee. 2. Height or elevation. 3. Impatience. 4. Wish. 5. Passion or wrath.  
  *Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उत्सव (utsava) [Printed book page 118-b ] उत्सव (utsava) m. ( - वः (-vaḥ) ) 1. A festival, a jubilee. 2. Height, elevation. 3. Impatience. 4. Wish. 5. Passion, wrath. E. उत्, षू (ut, ṣū) to bear, to bring forth, affix अच; (aca;) happiness, &c. is produced by it. [ ID=6912 ]
- A festival  
  *Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उत्सव (utsava) [Printed book page 0114-b ] उत्सव (utsava) utsava, i. e. ud-su + a, m. A festival, Daśak. in Chr. 180, 5; figura- tively, Amar. 23. — Comp. Baddha- ( vb. bandh ), adj., f. vā, celebrating a festival, Kathās. 25, 269. [ ID=2080 ]

### Enterprise or Beginning (5 definitions)
- enterprise, beginning  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2) [Printed book page 182,2] उत् - सव (ut-sava) b अस् (as), m. enterprise, beginning, Ṛg-veda (Title) i, 100, 8; 102, 1 [ ID=31950 ]
- 1. An undertaking. 2. A holiday or festival. 3. Flowering.  
  *Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उत्सव (utsava) [Printed book page 050-1 ] उत्सव (utsava) ut-savá, m. undertaking; holiday, festival; flowering; -saṃketa, m. pl. N. of a people. [ ID=4445 ]
- 1. An enterprise or beginning. 2. A feast or joy.  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > उत्सव (utsava) [Printed book page 083 ] उत्सव (utsava) m. enterprise, beginning; feast, joy. [ ID=5416 ]
- 1. An undertaking. 2. A festival.  
  *Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary*
  > उत्सव (utsava) [Printed book page 132-b ] utsavá, m. —1. an undertaking, beginning; —2. feast-day, festival, 25 4, 49 16. [ √2su + ud, ‘set a-going’; but the development of 2 from 1 is not clear.] [ ID=800 ]
- 1. Enterprise or beginning. 2. Festival, jubilee, joy, gladness, or merry-making. 3. Height, elevation, or insolence. 4. Passion or wrath. 5. A wish or the rising of a wish. 6. A section of a book.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > उत्सव (utsava) [Printed book page 0152-b ] उत्सव (utsava) utsava, as, m. (fr. rt. 2. su with ud? ), enterprise, beginning; a festival, a jubilee; joy, glad- ness; merry-making; height, elevation, insolence; passion, wrath; wish; rising of a wish; a section of a book. —Utsava-saṅketa, ās, m. pl., N. of a people. [ ID=10622 ]

### Etymological Note or Reference (1 definition)
- See ut-su  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H1) [Printed book page 182,1] उत् - सव (ut-sava) a &c. See उत् - सू (ut-sū), col. 2. [ ID=31881 ]

### Height or Elevation (1 definition)
- height, elevation  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > height, elevation [ ID=31954 ]

### Insolence (1 definition)
- insolence  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > insolence, L. [ ID=31955 ]

### Joy or Merriment (1 definition)
- Joy, gladness, and merriment.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > joy, gladness, merriment, MBh.; Ragh.; Kathās.; Amar. &c. [ ID=31952 ]

### Opening or Blossoming (1 definition)
- opening, blossoming  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > opening, blossoming, BhP. [ ID=31953 ]

### Passion or Wrath (1 definition)
- passion, wrath  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > passion, wrath, L. [ ID=31956 ]

### Wish or Desire (1 definition)
- wish, rising of a wish  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > wish, rising of a wish, L. [ ID=31957 ]

## 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; 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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