मुद्रा

From Sanskrit मुद्रा (mudrā).

मुद्रा • (mudrā) f

1. a seal
2. a stamp
3. any currency or coin; money
   • 1998, Rajwant Rao Pradeep Kumar Rao, Pracheen Bharatiya Mudrayen [Ancient Indian Money], 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 jigyāsā 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...

4. expression, face, appearance
5. the name of specific finger positions

From मुद्र (mudrá, “joyous, glad”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mud̪.ɽɑ́ː/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmud̪.ɽɑː/

मुद्रा • (mudrā́) f

1. a seal or any instrument used for sealing or stamping, a seal-ring, signet-ring, any ring
2. type for printing or instrument for lithographing
3. any stamp or print or mark or impression
   1. the stamp or impression made by a seal etc.
4. a stamped coin, piece of money, rupee, cash, medal
5. an image, sign, badge, token (especially a token or mark of divine attributes impressed upon the body)
6. authorization, a pass, passport (as given by a seal)
7. shutting, closing (as of the eyes or lips)
8. lock, stopper, bung
9. mystery
10. 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
11. female consort for sexual yoga practices
12. form of a deity
13. a particular branch of education ("reckoning by the fingers")
14. parched or fried grain
15. (rhetoric) the natural expression of things by words, calling things by their right names
16. (music) a dance accordant with tradition

• Tamil: முத்திரை (muttirai)
• Burmese: မုဒြာ (mu.dra)

• Monier Williams (1899), “मुद्रा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 822.