आश्रम

Borrowed from Sanskrit आश्रम (āśrama).

• IPA^(key): /ɑːʃ.ɾəm/

आश्रम • (āśram) m

1. (Hinduism) monastery, hermitage, ashram

   साधु आश्रम में वेदों की पढ़ाई करते हैं।

   sādhu āśram mẽ vedõ kī paṛhāī karte hain.

   Monks study the Vedas in the ashram.

From the root श्राम्यति (√śram).

आश्रम • (ā-śrama) 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
• → Tocharian B: aśrām

• Monier Williams (1899), “आश्रम”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0158.