आशय

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit आशय (āśayá).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɑː.ʃəj/,

आशय • (āśay) m

1. (rare, formal) abode, home

   Synonyms: निवास (nivās), वास (vās), गृह (gŕh), घर (ghar)

2. (in compounds) container, vessel
3. (in compounds, physiology) organ

• अग्न्याशय (agnyāśay, “pancreas”)
• आमाशय (āmāśay, “stomach”)
• गर्भाशय (garbhāśay, “womb”)
• पित्ताशय (pittāśay, “gall-bladder”)
• मूत्राशय (mūtrāśay, “bladder, vesica”)
• अंडाशय (aṇḍāśay, “ovary”)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “आशय”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From आ- (ā-) +‎ शय (śaya), from शी (śī, “to sleep, lie down for sexual intercourse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie down, settle”).

Compare with Pali āsaya.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɑː.ɕɐ.jɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.ɕɐ.jɐ/

आशय • (āśayá) stem, m

1. resting-place, bed
2. seat, place
3. an asylum, abode or retreat
4. a receptacle
5. any recipient
6. any vessel of the body

   रक्ताशय ― raktāśaya ― heart (lit. ‘the receptacle of blood’)

   आमाशय ― āmāśaya ― stomach (lit. ‘the receptacle of undigested (food)’)

7. the stomach, abdomen
8. the seat of feelings and thoughts, the mind, heart, soul
9. thought, meaning, intention
10. disposition of mind, mode of thinking
11. the balance of the fruits of previous works, which lie stored up in the mind in the form of mental deposits of merit or demerit, until they ripen in the individual soul's own experience into rank, years, and enjoyment
12. the will
13. pleasure
14. virtue
15. vice
16. fate
17. fortune
18. property
19. a miser, niggard
20. name of the plant Artocarpus integer (syn. Artocarpus integrifolia; chempedak)

• Hindi: आशय (āśay)
• → Tamil: ஆசயம் (ācayam)

• Monier Williams (1899) “आशय”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 714.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “āśayá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press