जय

Sanskrit

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Definitions
  • conquest, victory, triumph, winning, being victorious (in battle or in playing with dice or in a lawsuit)
  • (in the plural) name of particular verses causing victory (personified as deities)
  • or
  • a yellow variety of Vigna mungo ( <= )
  • name of the 3rd year of the 6th lustrum of the bṛhaspati cycle
  • (musical instruments) a kind of flute
  • (music) a kind of measure
  • the sun
  • Arjuna
  • Indra
  • name of a rishi (author of RV. x, 180 ; son of Angiras or of Indra; living under the 10th manu)
  • name of a spirit
  • name of an attendant of Vishnu
  • name of a Nāga
  • name of a Danava
  • name of a son
  • name of an ancient king (11th cakravartin in Bharata)
  • name of a Pandava hero
  • name of a Yudhisthira at Virata's court
  • name of Aśoka in a former birth
  • name of a carpenter
  • Terminalia chebula
  • नीलदूर्वा (tr=nīla-dūrvā)
  • for जपा (जपा)
  • name of a narcotic substance
  • the 3rd or 8th or 13th day of either half-month
  • one of the 7 flag-sticks of Indra's banner
  • name of the saurā dharmāḥ
  • name of Durga
  • name of a daughter of Dakṣa
  • name of yoginī
  • name of Śakti
  • name of a handmaid of Durga
  • name of a Buddhist deity (= Tārā)
  • of the mother of the 12th arhat of the present Avsarpini

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʷey- (win, conquer).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*gʷey-

Gloss

win, conquer

Concept
Semantic Field

Social and political relations

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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