स्वस्तिक

Borrowed from Sanskrit स्वस्तिक (svástika, “a lucky or auspicious object”). Doublet of सथिया (sathiyā)

• IPA^(key): [sʋəstik]

स्वस्तिक • (svastik) m (Urdu spelling سوستک‎)

1. swastika
2. a lucky or auspicious object

From सु- (sú, “good, well”) + अस्ति (ásti-), a verbal abstract to the root of the verb "to be", svasti thus meaning "well-being" — and the diminutive suffix क (-ka); hence "little thing associated with well-being", corresponding roughly to "lucky charm". The word first appears in the Classical Sanskrit (in the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /s̪ʋɐ́s̪.t̪i.kɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ʋɐs̪.t̪i.kɐ/

स्वस्तिक • (svástika) m

1. a kind of bard (who utters words of welcome or eulogy)
2. any lucky or auspicious object, especially a kind of mystical cross or mark made on persons and things to denote good luck; a swastika
3. the crossing of the arms or hands on the breast
4. a bandage in the form of a cross
5. a dish of a particular form
6. a kind of cake
7. a triangular crest-jewel
8. the meeting of four roads, a crossroad
9. a particular symbol made of ground rice and formed like a triangle (it is used in fumigating the image of durgā, and is said to symbolize the liṅga)
10. a species of garlic
11. cock
12. libertine

स्वस्तिक • (svástika) m or n

1. a mansion or temple of a particular form
2. Marsilea quadrifolia
3. a particular mode of sitting practised by yogins (in which the toes are placed in the inner hollow of the knees)

स्वस्तिक • (svástika) m

1. name of a serpent-demon
2. name of one of Skanda's attendants
3. name of a Danava
4. name of a poet
5. name of another man

• → English: swastika
• → German: Swastika
• → Hindi: स्वस्तिक (svastik)