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Hindi
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्रसाद (prasāda).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi) IPA(key): /pɾə.sɑːd̪/,
Noun
प्रसाद • (prasād) m
- (Hinduism, Sikhism) a type of food that is served as a religious offering
Declension
Declension of प्रसाद (masc cons-stem)
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singular
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plural
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direct
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प्रसाद prasād
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प्रसाद prasād
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oblique
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प्रसाद prasād
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प्रसादों prasādõ
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vocative
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प्रसाद prasād
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प्रसादो prasādo
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Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
From प्रसद् (prasad, “to fall into the power of”).
Pronunciation
Noun
प्रसाद • (prasāda) stem, m
- clearness, brightness, pellucidness, purity
- अम्बुप्रसाद (ambu-prasāda) — the clearing nut tree, Strychnos potatorum
- प्र्सादति (prsādati) — to be clear or bright
- clearness of style, perspicuity
- brightness (of the face)
- calmness, tranquillity, absence of excitement
- serenity of disposition, good humour
- graciousness, kindness, kind behaviour, favour, aid, mediation
- प्रसादात् (prasādāt) — through the kindness or by the favour of
- prasādaṃ √kṛ — to be gracious
- दुष्प्रसाद (duṣ-prasāda) — difficult to be propitiated
- Kindness personified as a son of Dharma and Maitrī
- clarified liquor, a decoction
- settlings, a residuum
- free gift, gratuity
- a propitiatory offering or gift (of food = प्रसादद्रव्य (prasāda-dravya), प्रसादान्न (prasādā-nna))
- the food presented to an idol, or the remnants of food left by a spiritual teacher (which any one may freely appropriate to his own use)
- approbation
- well-being, welfare
- name of a commentator on the prakriyā-kaumudī
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