As a deity name
Name 36 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
As a Hindi name
हास · noun · masculine
हंसने की क्रिया या भाव । हँसी · परिहास । दिल्लगी । ठट्ठा । मजाक · निंदा का भाव लिए हँसी । उपहास — Śabdasāgara
हास · adj
श्वेत (वर्ण) । उज्वल — Śabdasāgara
हास · hās · s.m.
Laughing, laughter; mirth, merry-making, joy — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1216
हास · masculine
laughter, merriment, ridicule; a joke
Cited formation "हास" is ह + -आस: ह means "the thirty-third 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, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi हास — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit हास (hāsa).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
hāsa m. (ifc. f(ā). ) laughing, laughter, mirth (often in pl.), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
mocking, derision of (gen.), R.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
laughing, laughter, mirth (often in pl.), &c.
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (9)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "hāsa" is the vocative of "hāsā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
hāsa m. (ifc. f(ā). ) laughing, laughter, mirth (often in pl.), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
mocking, derision of (gen.), R.
a jest, joke, fun (ākhyāna-h˚, ‘a funny story’), Kathās.
dazzling whiteness (regarded as laughter in which the teeth are shown), R.; Kathās.; Sāh.
pride, arrogance, BhP.
hāsā (ā), f. N. of Durgā, L.
Alternative readings
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