As a Hindi name
यास · noun · masculine
लाल धमासा — Śabdasāgara
यास · masculine
despair, desperation; despondency
Cited formation "यास" is य + -आस: य means "the twenty-sixth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -आस forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word of Persian origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Classical Persian یَاس (yās), a variant of یَأْس (ya's), in turn derived from Arabic يَأْس (yaʔs).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
A plant, (Hedysarum alhagi.) (-sā) A sort of bird, the Sārikā. E. yasa to endeavour, aff. ghañ.
Verified derivationMultiple readings (11)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "yāsa" is the vocative of "yāsā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M3 · meaning shifts "yāsa" is derived from "yās" with the aṇ/añ suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
1. yās = yas (only in avayāsisīṣṭhām), Kāṭh.
2. yās mfn. See a-yās.
yāsa m. = yavāsa, Alhagi Maurorum, L. (-śarkarā f. = yavāsa-ś˚, Car.)
yāsa m. (-saḥ) A plant, (Hedysarum alhagi.) f. (-sā) A sort of bird, the Sārikā. E. yasa to endeavour, aff. ghañ.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
yāsa m. = yavāsa, Alhagi Maurorum, L. (-śarkarā f. = yavāsa-ś˚, Car.)
yāsa m. (-saḥ) A plant, (Hedysarum alhagi.) f. (-sā) A sort of bird, the Sārikā. E. yasa to endeavour, aff. ghañ.
yāsā f. Turdus Salica, L.
1. yās = yas (only in avayāsisīṣṭhām), Kāṭh.
2. yās mfn. See a-yās.
Alternative readings
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