As a Hindi name
भोज · noun · masculine
वहुत से लोगों का एक साथ बैठकर खाना पीना । जेवनार । दावत · भीज्यपदार्थ । खाने की चीज · ज्वार और भाँग के योग से बनी हुई एक प्रकार की शराब जो पूने की ओर मिलती है — Śabdasāgara
भोज · noun · masculine
भाजकट नामक दश । जसे आजकल भोजपुर कहते हैं · चंद्रवंशियों के एक वंश का नाम · पुराणनुसार शांति देवी के गर्भ से उत्पन्न वसुदेव के एक पुत्र का नाम — Śabdasāgara
भोज · bhoj · s.m.
Eating, enjoying, feasting; meal; feast, banquet — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 195
भोज · bhoj · s.m.
Name of the country of Patna and Bhāgalpur; name of a celebrated sovereign of Malwa (supposed to have flourished about the end of the tenth century or beginning of the eleventh, and to have been a great patron of learning) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 195
भोज · masculine
a meal; feast
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit भोज्य — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Prakrit भोज्ज (bhŏjja), from Sanskrit भोज्य (bhojya, “to be consumed”), from the root भुज् (bhuj, “to enjoy, consume, eat”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
bhojya See p. 767.
bhojya mfn. to be enjoyed or eaten, eatable, what is enjoyed or eaten, (esp.) what may be eaten without mastication, Bhpr.; MaitrUp.; MBh.; Yājñ. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
bestowing enjoyment, bountiful, liberal
Verified derivationMultiple readings (4)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "bhoja" is the vocative of "bhojā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
bhoja mfn. bestowing enjoyment, bountiful, liberal, RV.
enjoying, leading a life of enjoyment, BhP.
bhoja m. a king with uncommon qualities, AitBr.
(pl.) N. of a country (near the Vindhya mountain) or of a people (the descendants of Mahā-bhoja), MBh.; Hariv.; Pur. &c.
a king of the Bhojas, MBh.
bhojā (ā), f. a princess of the Bhojas, MBh.; Hariv. (v.l. bhojyā)
N. of the wife of Vīra-vrata, BhP.
Alternative readings
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