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Hindi
Etymology
From Sanskrit मुद्रा (mudrā).
Pronunciation
Noun
मुद्रा • (mudrā) f
- a seal
- a stamp
- any currency or coin; money
- 1998, Rajwant Rao Pradeep Kumar Rao, Pracheen Bharatiya Mudrayen , Motilal Banarsidass Publishe →ISBN, page 26
भारतीय मुद्रा के अध्ययन के साथ ही यह जिज्ञासा भी उत्यित हुई कि भारत में मुद्रा का उदभव किस प्रकार सम्भव हुआ ।- bhārtīya mudrā ke adhyayan ke sāth hī yah jijñāsā bhī utyit huī ki bhārat mẽ mudrā kā udbhav kis prakār sambhav huā .
- with the study of Indian currency this curiosity has also arisen of by which means has money been developed in India...
- expression, face, appearance
- the name of specific finger positions
Declension
Declension of मुद्रा (fem ā-stem)
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singular
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plural
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मुद्रा
mudrā
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मुद्राएँ
mudrāẽ
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मुद्रा
mudrā
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मुद्राओं
mudrāõ
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मुद्रा
mudrā
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मुद्राओ
mudrāo
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Nepali
Pronunciation
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- Phonetic Devanagari: मुद्रा
Noun
मुद्रा • (mudrā)
- any currency or coin; money
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
Possibly an Iranian borrowing, from Proto-Iranian *mudrā, possibly ultimately from Akkadian 𒈬𒊬 (mušarû, “object bearing a royal inscription”), from Sumerian 𒈬𒊬 (mu-sar /musar/), from 𒈬 (mu, “name, fame”) + 𒊬 (sar, “to write”).[1]
Or, if from मुद्र (mudrá, “joyous, glad”), then related to माद्यति (mādyati, “to rejoice, revel, be drunk, intoxicated”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
मुद्रा • (mudrā́) stem, f
- a seal or any instrument used for sealing or stamping, a seal-ring, signet-ring, any ring
- type for printing or instrument for lithographing
- any stamp or print or mark or impression
- the stamp or impression made by a seal etc.
- a stamped coin, piece of money, rupee, cash, medal
- an image, sign, badge, token (especially a token or mark of divine attributes impressed upon the body)
- authorization, a pass, passport (as given by a seal)
- shutting, closing (as of the eyes or lips)
- lock, stopper, bung
- mystery
- name of particular positions or intertwinings of the fingers of the hand (24 in number, commonly practiced in religious worship, and supposed to possess an occult meaning and magical efficacy); mudra
- female consort for sexual yoga practices
- form of a deity
- a particular branch of education ("reckoning by the fingers")
- parched or fried grain
- (rhetoric) the natural expression of things by words, calling things by their right names
- (music) a dance accordant with tradition
Declension
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Descendants
References
- ^ “mudra”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “741-743”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 741-743