आशय

From Sanskrit आशय (āśaya).

• IPA^(key): /ɑː.ʃəj/

आशय • (āśay) m

1. abode, home

   Synonyms: निवास (nivās), वास (vās), गृह (gŕh), घर (ghar)

2. (in compounds) container, vessel

   अग्न्याशय ― agnyāśay ― pancreas (literally, “fire-vessel”)

• मूत्राशय (mūtrāśay, “bladder, vesica”)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “आशय”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From आ- (ā-) +‎ शय (śaya), and the latter from the root शी (śī)

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɑː.ɕɐ́.jɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.ɕɐ.jɐ/

आशय • (āśaya) m

1. seat
2. place
3. asylum
4. receptacle
5. stomach, abdomen
6. any vessel of the body

   रक्ताशय ― raktāśaya ― heart (lit. ‘the receptacle of blood’)

   आमाशय ― āmāśaya ― stomach (lit. ‘the bleating receptacle’)

7. the seat of feelings and thoughts, be it mind, heart or soul
8. thought , meaning , intention
9. fortune, fate
10. fate
11. property

• प्रौढत्व (prauḍhatva, “confidence, arrogance”)
• प्रौढवाद (prauḍhavāda, “an arrogant or bold assertion”)
• प्रौढपुष्प (prauḍhapuṣpa, “having blossoms full-grown”)
• प्रौढप्रताप (prauḍhapratāpa, “of mighty prowess”)

• Monier Williams (1899), “आशय”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 714.