As a Hindi name
अवश्य · a-vaśya · adj.
Necessary, &c. = avaśyak — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 106
अवश्य
necessary, mandatory, required
अवश्य
certainly, assuredly, of course
Śabdasāgara also records: निश्चय करके । निस्संदेह । जरूर
Cited formation "अवश्य" is अ- + वश्य: वश्य means "(f. -ā), To be subjected or subdued, controllable, governable", 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 "अवश्य" is अ- + वश्य: वश्य means "(f. -ā), To be subjected or subdued, controllable, governable", 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 अवश्य — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit अवश्य (avaśya), अवश्यम् (avaśyam).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a-vaśya in comp. with a fut. p.p. (and with some other words) for a-vaśyam, Pāṇ. vi, 1, 144, Comm.
disobedient, KaṭhUp.; Pañcat.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
in comp. with a fut. p.p. (and with some other words) for a-vaśyam, Comm.
Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "avaśya" is the vocative of "avaśyā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
a-vaśya in comp. with a fut. p.p. (and with some other words) for a-vaśyam, Pāṇ. vi, 1, 144, Comm.
disobedient, KaṭhUp.; Pañcat.
avaśya a. 1 Untameable, ungovernable, unruly. 2 Inevitable; atha maraṇamavaśyameva jaṃtoḥ Ve. 3. 4. 3 Indispensable, necessary. Comp. — putraḥ a son whom it is impossible to govern or teach.
avaśya mfn. (-śyaḥ-śyā-śyaṃ) Untameable, ungovernable. ind. (-śyaḥ) Certainly, necessarily. E. ava, śye to go, ḍam affix; irregularly formed: it occurs in composition with or without the nasal, as avaśyaṅkārī who does what is necessary, avaśyapācyaḥ to be necessarily cooked, &c. E. a neg. vaśa to subdue, affix yat.
ava-śyā f. (√ śyai), hoar-frost, dew, L.
avaśyā [ava-śyai ka] 1 Hoar-frost, a fog or mist. 2 An independent woman.
Alternative readings
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