As a Hindi name
पाश्या · noun · feminine
जाल । पाश — Śabdasāgara
पाना · masculine
spanner, wrench
पाना
to get, receive; to obtain; to win, attain, achieve; to find, come upon, meet
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit प्रापयति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Indo-Iranian *pra- Sanskrit प्र- (pra-) Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep- Sanskrit आप् (āp) Proto-Indo-E…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a multitude of nooses or ropes, a net
Verified derivationMultiple readings (4)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "pāśyā" is the instrumental of "pāśī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
pāśyā f. a multitude of nooses or ropes, a net, Pāṇ. iv, 2, 49.
pāśyā 1 A net. 2 A collection of snares or ropes (pāśānāṃ samūhaḥ).
pāśyā See under pāśa.
pāśyā f. (-śyā) A number of nooses. E. pāśa, and yat aff.
pāśī (ī), f. a rope, fetter, Śiś. xviii, 57 (cf. also 2. pāśī).
2. pāśī f. (for 1. See under pāśa) a stone, Kauś. 83; 85 (v.l. pasī; cf. pāṣaṇa, pāṣī).
Alternative readings
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