As a Hindi name
अभाग्य · abhāgya · s.m.
= ابهاگ abhāg — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 5
अभाग्य · masculine
misfortune, ill luck
अभाग्य
unfortunate, unlucky, luckless
Śabdasāgara also records: अभागवाल । भाग्यहीन । अभागा
Cited formation "अभाग्य" is अ- + भाग्य: भाग्य means "fortune", and the prefix अ- forms negation, lack. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "अभाग्य" is अ- + भाग्य: भाग्य means "fortune", and the prefix अ- forms without, lacking. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §4(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi अभाग्य — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit अभाग्य (abhāgya). By surface analysis, अ- (a-, “not; without”) + भाग्य (bhāgya, “luck; fortune”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a-bhāgya mfn. unfortunate, wretched.
abhāgya mfn. (-gyaḥ-gyā-gyaṃ) Unfortunate, wretched. E. a neg. bhāgya fortunate. So abhāgyavat (-vān-vatī-vat)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
unfortunate, wretched.
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
a-bhāgya mfn. unfortunate, wretched.
abhāgya mfn. (-gyaḥ-gyā-gyaṃ) Unfortunate, wretched. E. a neg. bhāgya fortunate. So abhāgyavat (-vān-vatī-vat)
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