Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“inauspicious, evil, sin, sorrow”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“inauspicious, evil, sin, sorrow”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
अभद्र · adj
अमांगलिक । अशुभ । अकल्याणकारी · अश्रेष्ट । असाधु । अशिष्ट । बेहूदा । कमीना — Śabdasāgara
अभद्र · noun · masculine
बुराई । पाप । दृष्टता · शोक — Śabdasāgara
अभद्र
indecent, uncivil
Cited formation "अभद्र" is अ- + भद्र: भद्र means "Good, well, prosperous, happy, auspicious, fortunate, lucky", and the prefix अ- forms negation, lack. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "अभद्र" is अ- + भद्र: भद्र means "Good, well, prosperous, happy, auspicious, fortunate, lucky", and the prefix अ- forms without, lacking. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §4(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi अभद्र — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Classical Sanskrit अभद्र (abhadra). By surface analysis, अ- (a-) + भद्र (bhadra).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a-bhadra mfn. inauspicious, mischievous
a-bhadra n. mischief.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
mischief.
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
a-bhadra mfn. inauspicious, mischievous
a-bhadra n. mischief.
abhadra a. Inauspicious, bad, evil, ill, wicked. — draṃ 1 Evil, sin, wickedness. 2 Sorrow.
Alternative readings
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