As a Hindi name
लालसा · noun · feminine
किसी पदार्थ को प्राप्त करने की बहुत अधिक उत्कंठा या अभिलाषा । बहुत अधिक इच्छा या चाह । लिप्सा · उत्सुकता · वह अभिलाषा जो गर्भिणी स्त्री के मन में गर्भावस्था में उत्पन्न होती है । दोहद । विशेष दे॰ 'दोहद' — Śabdasāgara
लालसा · adj
लोल । चंचल — Śabdasāgara
लालसा · lālasā · s.f.
Longing, ardent desire, eager longing for an absent person or object; covetousness (see lālać); the longing of a pregnant woman; regret, sorrow — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 947
लालसा · feminine
desire, want; greed
Cited formation "लालसा" is ला- + लसा: लसा means "हल्दी", and the prefix ला- forms without. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §5(4) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "लालसा" is लालस + -आ: लालस means "चंचल", 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 — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi लालसा — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit लालसा (lālasā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
lālasā f. a kind of metre, Piṅg., Sch.
lālasā [las spṛhāyāṃ yaṅ luk bhāve a] 1 Longing or ardent desire, extreme desire, eagerness. 2 Asking, solicitation, entreaty. 3 Regret, sorrow. 4 The longing of a pregnant woman (dohada).
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a kind of metre, Sch.
Verified derivationMultiple readings (10)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "lālasā" is the feminine form of "lālasa" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
lālasā f. a kind of metre, Piṅg., Sch.
lālasā [las spṛhāyāṃ yaṅ luk bhāve a] 1 Longing or ardent desire, extreme desire, eagerness. 2 Asking, solicitation, entreaty. 3 Regret, sorrow. 4 The longing of a pregnant woman (dohada).
lālasā mf. (-saḥ-sā) 1 Ardent desire. 2 Regret, sorrow, missing, wishing for any person or object absent. 3 Soliciting, asking. 4 The longing of pregnant women. 5 Wanton sport, dalliance. E. lala to desire, to wish for, asaṇ Uṇādi aff. or laṣa to wish, or las to sport, aff. ghañ and ṭāp, and the root reiterated, deriv. irr.
lālasa mf(ā)n. (fr. Intens. of √ las) eagerly longing for, ardently desirous of, delighting or absorbed in, devoted or totally given up to (loc. or comp.), MBh.; Kāv. &c. (-tā f.)
lālasa m. and f(ā). longing or ardent desire, fond attachment or devotion to (loc.), Bhartṛ.; Bālar. (L. also ‘regret, sorrow; asking, soliciting; the longing of a pregnant woman; dalliance’)
Alternative readings
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