As a Hindi name
दूरदर्शन · noun · masculine
गिद्ध · विद्वान् । पंडित · समझदार — Śabdasāgara
दूरदर्शन · masculine
Doordarshan (the first television network of India)
दूरदर्शन · masculine
farsightedness; ability to see far
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Etymology tree Hindi दूर (dūr) Proto-Indo-European *derḱ- Sanskrit दृश् (dṛś) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Sanskrit -अन (-ana) Sanskrit दर्शन (darśana)bor. Hindi दर्शन (darśan) Hindi दूरदर्शन Sanskritic formation from दूर (dūr, “far”) + दर्शन (darśan, “seeing, vision, sight”). Calqu…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi दूरदर्शन — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit दूरदर्शन (dūradarśana).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
dūra—darśana m. ‘far-seeing’, a vulture, L.
dūra—darśana n. long-sightedness
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
long-sightedness
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Dictionary citations
dūra—darśana m. ‘far-seeing’, a vulture, L.
dūra—darśana n. long-sightedness
foresight, W.
dūra—darśana mfn. visible only from afar, BhP. i, 11, 8.
dūradarśana n. (-naṃ) 1 Foresight. 2 Long-sightedness. m. (-naḥ) A vulture. E. dūra, and darśana seeing.
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