Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“death”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“death”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
मा · noun · feminine
लक्ष्मी · माता · ज्ञान — Śabdasāgara
मा · pron
न । नहीं । मत — Śabdasāgara
मा · mā · s.f.
A mother — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 977
Cited formation "मा" is म + -आ: म means "the twenty-fifth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "मा" is मना + -आ: मना means "forbidden, prohibited", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "मा" is म + -आ: म means "the twenty-fifth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
or with the Impv. (in only, [ hṛṇītās] agniḥ, may Agni not be angry with us; but very often in later language, e.g. mā kranda do not cry, you can go or not go, may not this foe ari…
Verified derivationMultiple readings (12)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "mā" is the accusative of "asmad" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "mā" is the feminine form of "ma" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M1 · same meaning "mā" is the nominative of "man" — the same word in a different grammatical case, derived from the stem's own paradigm.
M1 · same meaning "mā" is the nominative of "mṛ" — the same word in a different grammatical case, derived from the stem's own paradigm.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
mā f. a mother, L.
measure, L.
authority (-tva n.), Nyāyam.
light, L.
knowledge, L.
asmad base of the first person pl., as used in comp.
also by native grammarians considered to be the base of the cases asmān &c. (see above).
1. ma the labial nasal.
2. ma m. (in prosody) a molossus.
man in comp. for 1. mad.
man cl. 8. 4. Ā. (Dhātup. xxx, 9; xxv, 67) manute, manyate (ep. also ˚ti; 3. pl. manvate, RV.; pf. mene, Br. &c.; mamnāthe, ˚nāte, RV.; aor. amata, amanmahi, Subj. manāmahe, mananta, p. manāna, q.v., RV.; maṃsi, amaṃsta, Subj. maṃsate, Prec. maṃsīṣṭa, 1. pers. mc. masīya, ib.; māṃsta, AV., ˚stām, TĀr.; mandhvam, Br.; amaniṣṭa Gr.; fut. maṃsyate, Br., ˚ti, MBh.; mantā, manitā, Gr.; maniṣyate, RV.; inf. mantum, MBh. &c., mantave, ˚tavai, RV., mantos, Br.; ind.p. matvā, Up. &c.; manitvā Gr.; -matya, Br. &c.; -manya, MBh. &c.), to think, believe, imagine, suppose, conjecture, RV. &c. &c. (manye, I think, methinks, is in later language often inserted in a sentence without affecting the construction; cf. g. cādi and Pāṇ. iv, 1, 106); to regard or consider any one or anything (acc.) as (acc. with or without iva, or adv., often in -vat; in later language also dat., to express contempt [cf. Pāṇ. ii, 3, 17], e.g. g. rājyaṃ tṛṇāya manye, ‘I value empire at a straw’ i.e. I make light of it = laghu √ man, and opp. to bahu, or sādhu √ man, to think much or well of, praise, approve), ib.; to think one's self or be thought to be, appear as, pass for (nom.; also with iva), ib.; to be of opinion, think fit or right, MBh.; Kāv. &c.; to agree or be of the same opinion with (acc.), MBh.; to set the heart or mind on, honour, esteem (with na, disdain), hope or wish for (acc. or gen.), RV. &c. &c.; to think of (in prayer &c., either ‘to remember, meditate on’, or ‘mention, declare’, or ‘excogitate, invent’), RV.; AV.; to perceive, observe, learn, know, understand, comprehend (acc., Ved. also gen.), RV. &c. &c.; to offer, present, MBh. : Caus. (Dhātup. xxxiv, 36) mānayati (ep. also ˚te; aor. amīmanat; Pass. mānyate), to honour, esteem, value highly (also with uru, bahu and sādhu), AV. &c. &c.; (Ā.) stambhe, Dhātup. xxxiii, 35; garvake, ib.; Vop. : Desid. (Dhātup. xxiii, 3) mīmāṃsate (rarely ˚ti; amīmāṃsiṣṭhās, ŚBr.; mīmāṃsyate, AV.; mimaṃsate, mimaṃsiṣate Gr.), to reflect upon, consider, examine, investigate, AV.; Br. &c.; to call in question, doubt (‘with regard to’ loc.), ib. : Desid. of Desid. mīmāṃsiṣate Gr.: Intens. manmanyate, manmanti, ib.
mṛ cl. 6. Ā. (Dhātup. xxviii, 110) mriyate (ep. and mc. also P. ˚ti; cl. 1. P. Ā. marati, marate, RV.; Impv. mara, Cāṇ.; pf. mamāra, mamruḥ, RV. &c. &c.; p. mamṛvas, RV.; Ā. mamrire, BhP.; aor. amṛta Subj. mṛthāh, RV.; AV.; Pot. murīya, AV.; mṛṣīṣṭa, Pāṇ. i, 3, 61; fut. martā Gr.; mariṣyati, AV. &c. &c.; ˚te, MBh.; inf. martum, MBh.; R. &c.; martave, AV.Paipp.; ind.p. mṛtvā, Br.; -māram, MBh.), to die, decease, RV. &c. &c.: Pass. mriyate (cf. above; sometimes used impers. with instr.; pf. mamre; aor. amāri), Bhaṭṭ. : Caus. mārayati (mc. also ˚te; aor., amīmarat) : Pass. māryate, to cause to die, kill, slay, AV. &c. &c.: Desid. of Caus. See mimārayiṣu: Desid. mumūrṣati (Pāṇ. vii, 1, 102), to wish or be about to die, face death, ŚrS. &c. &c. : Intens. memrīyate, marmarti Gr.
mṛ [cf. Zd. mar, mareta; Gk. βροτός for μροτός; Lat. mors, morior &c.; Slav. mrěti; Lith. mìrti; Goth. maurthr; Germ. Mord, morden; Eng. murder.]
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