As a Hindi name
पूरक · pūrak · adj.
Filling, completing; filling up; satisfying; full, &c. ( = pūrā, q.v.) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 279
पूरक · masculine
complement, supplement, filler; closing the right nostril and drawing up air through the left; cake of meal (pinda) offered at the conclusion of the funeral rites or oblation to the manes; multiplier
पूरक
filling, filling up, satisfying; completing, complementary, supplementary
Śabdasāgara also records: पूरा करनेवाला । जिससे किसी की पूर्ति हो
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi पूरक — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit पूरक (pūraka). Doublet of पूरा (pūrā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
pūraka mfn. filling, completing, fulfilling, satisfying (ifc. or with gen.; cf. Pāṇ. ii, 3, 70, Kāś.), Mn.; MBh. &c.
pūraka m. flood, stream, effusion, BhP.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
closing the right nostril with the forefinger and then drawing up air through the left and then closing the left nostril and drawing up air through the right (as a religious exerci…
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M3 · meaning shifts "pūraka" is derived from "pūra" with the ka/kan suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
pūra mfn. (√ pṝ, Caus.) filling, making full (cf. pāṇi-)
fulfilling, satisfying (cf. kāma-)
pūraka mfn. filling, completing, fulfilling, satisfying (ifc. or with gen.; cf. Pāṇ. ii, 3, 70, Kāś.), Mn.; MBh. &c.
pūraka m. flood, stream, effusion, BhP.
Dictionary citations
pūraka mfn. filling, completing, fulfilling, satisfying (ifc. or with gen.; cf. Pāṇ. ii, 3, 70, Kāś.), Mn.; MBh. &c.
pūraka m. flood, stream, effusion, BhP.
(in arithm.) the multiplier
pūraka m. a ball of meal offered at the conclusion of the oblations to the Pitṛs, L. (also -piṇḍa m., Kull. on Mn. v, 85)
pūraka m. closing the right nostril with the forefinger and then drawing up air through the left and then closing the left nostril and drawing up air through the right (as a religious exercise), RTL. 402
pūra mfn. (√ pṝ, Caus.) filling, making full (cf. pāṇi-)
fulfilling, satisfying (cf. kāma-)
Alternative readings
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