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Hindi
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit जिघांसा (jighāṃsā).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi) IPA(key): /d͡ʒɪ.ɡʱɑːn.sɑː/,
Noun
जिघांसा • (jighānsā) f
- desire to kill or destroy
- Synonym: मारने की इच्छा (mārne kī icchā)
- revenge
- Synonyms: बदला (badlā), प्रतिहिंसा (pratihinsā), प्रतिशोध (pratiśodh), प्रतिवैर (prativair)
Declension
Declension of जिघांसा (fem ā-stem)
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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जिघांसा
jighānsā
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जिघांसाएँ
jighānsāẽ
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| oblique
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जिघांसा
jighānsā
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जिघांसाओं
jighānsāõ
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| vocative
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जिघांसा
jighānsā
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जिघांसाओ
jighānsāo
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Further reading
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
Back-formation from जिघांसति (jíghāṃsati, “to wish to kill/destroy”) + -आ (-ā).
Pronunciation
Noun
जिघांसा • (jighāṃsā) stem, f
- desire to kill or destroy
c. 700 CE – 900 CE,
Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.54.30:
- ततो रथादवप्लुत्य खड्गपाणिर्जिघांसया। कृष्णमभ्यद्रवत् क्रुद्धः पतङ्ग इव पावकम्॥
- tato rathādavaplutya khaḍgapāṇirjighāṃsayā. kṛṣṇamabhyadravat kruddhaḥ pataṅga iva pāvakam.
- Then Rukmī leaped down from his chariot and, sword in hand, rushed toward Kṛṣṇa with the desire to kill him, like a bird flying into the wind.
- malice, revenge
Declension
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899) “जिघांसा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 421.
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “jighāṃsā”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “जिघांसा”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “जिघांसा”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press