योग

Sanskrit

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Definitions
  • the act of yoking, joining, attaching, harnessing, putting to (of horses)
  • yoke, team, vehicle, conveyance
  • employment, use, application, performance
  • equipping or arraying (of an army)
  • fixing (of an arrow on the bow-string)
  • putting on (of armour)
  • remedy, cure
  • means, expedient, device, way, manner, method
  • supernatural means, charm, incantation, magical art
  • trick, stratagem, fraud, deceit (compare yoga-nanda)
  • undertaking, business, work
  • acquisition, gain, profit, wealth, property
  • occasion, opportunity
  • any junction, union, combination, contact with (+instrumental with or without सह (tr=sahá), or compound)
  • mixing of various materials, mixture
  • partaking of, possessing (instrumental or compound)
  • connection, relation (योगात् (योगात्), योगेन (tr=yógena) and योगतस् (tr=yóga-tas) at the end of a compound: in consequence of, on account of, by reason of, according to, through)
  • putting together, arrangement, disposition, regular succession
  • fitting together, fitness, propriety, suitability
  • exertion, endeavour, zeal, diligence, industry, care, attention
  • yoga: application or concentration of the thoughts, abstract contemplation, meditation, (especially) self-concentration, abstract meditation and mental abstraction practised as a system
  • any simple act or rite conducive to yoga or abstract meditation
  • Yoga personified (as the son of Dharma and Kriya)
  • a follower of the yoga system
  • (in samkhya) the union of soul with matter (one of the 10 मूलिकअर्था (tr=mūlika-arthā)s or radical facts)
  • (with पाशुपत (पाशुपत)s) the union of the individual soul with the universal soul
  • (with पाञ्चरात्र (पाञ्चरात्र)s) devotion, pious seeking after God
  • (with जैन (जैन)s) contact or mixing with the outer world
  • (astronomy) conjunction, lucky conjuncture
  • (astronomy) a constellation, asterism (these, with the moon, are called चान्द्रयोगाः (tr=cāndra-yogāḥ) and are 13 in number; without the moon they are called खयोगाः (tr=kha-yogāḥ), or नाभसयोगाः (tr=nābhasa-yogāḥ))
  • (astronomy) the leading or principal star of a lunar asterism
  • (astronomy) name of a variable division of time (during which the joint motion in longitude of the sun and moon amounts to 13 degrees 20 minutes; there are 27 such yogas beginning with विष्कम्भ (विष्कम्भ) and ending with वैधृति (वैधृति))
  • (arithmetic) addition, sum, total
  • (grammar) the connection of words together, syntactical dependence of a word, construction (at the end of a compound = dependent on, ruled by)
  • (grammar) a combined or concentrated grammatical rule or aphorism
  • the connection of a word with its root, original or etymological meaning (as opposed to रूढि (रूढि))
  • violator of confidence, spy
  • name of a scholiast or commentator on the परमार्थसार (परमार्थसार)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *yáwgas inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwgas inherited from Proto-Indo-European *yówgos, *yewg- (join, yoke, harness, unite, tie together).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*yewg-

Gloss

join, yoke, harness, unite, tie together

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