As a Hindi name
अभिघात · noun · masculine
[वि॰ अभिघातक, अभिघाती] · चोट पहुँचना । प्रहार । मार । ताड़ना । पुरूष की बाई ओर और स्त्री की दाई ओर का मसा — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "अभिघात" is अभि- + घात: घात means "blow, attack, hit", and the prefix अभि- forms towards, against, superior, special. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(6) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
striking, attack
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Dictionary citations
abhi-ghāta m. (√ han), striking, attack
infliction of injury, damage, Mn. xii, 77, &c.
striking back, driving away, warding off
abrupt or vehement articulation (of Vedic text), VPrāt.
abhi-ghāta n. an irregular combination of consonants i.e. the combination of the fourth letter of gutturals, cerebrals, &c. with the first or third letter, of the second with the first letter, and of the third with the second letter of those classes of consonants.
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