आश्रम

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit आश्रम (āśrama).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɑːʃ.ɾəm/,

आश्रम • (āśram) m (Urdu spelling آشرم)

1. (Hinduism) monastery, hermitage, ashram

   साधु आश्रम में वेदों की पढ़ाई करते हैं।

   sādhu āśram mẽ vedõ kī paṛhāī karte ha͠i.

   Monks study the Vedas in the ashram.

From the root श्रम् (√śram).

आश्रम • (ā-śrama) stem, m or n

1. hermitage, the abode of ascetics, the cell of a hermit or of retired saints or sages; ashram
2. a stage in the life of a Brahman (of which there are four corresponding to four different periods or conditions, namely 1st, ब्रह्मचारिन् (brahmacārin, “student of the veda”); 2nd, गृहस्थ (gṛha-stha, “householder”); 3rd, वानप्रस्थ (vānaprastha, “anchorite”); and 4th, संन्यासिन् (saṃnyāsin, “abandoner of all worldly concerns”), or sometimes भिक्षु (bhikṣu, “religious beggar”); in some places the law-givers mention only three such periods of religious life, the first being then omitted)
3. hut built on festal occasions
4. college, school
5. wood, thicket
6. (masculine) name of a pupil of Pṛthvī-dhara

• अनाथ आश्रम (anātha āśrama)

• → English: ashram
• → German: Aschram
• → Hindi: आश्रम (āśram)
• → Khmer: អាស្រម (ʼaahrɔɔm)
• → Old Javanese: āśrama
  • Javanese: ꦲꦱꦿꦩ (asrama)
  • → Balinese: ᬆᬰ᭄ᬭᬫ (asrama), ᬰ᭄ᬭᬫ (srama)
• → Malay: asrama
• → Thai: อาศรม (aa-sǒm)
• → Tocharian B: aśrām

• Monier Williams (1899) “आश्रम”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0158.