As a deity name
Name 871 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
अभिप्राय · noun · masculine
आशय । मतलब । अर्थ । तात्पर्य । गरज । प्रयोजन · अर्थ । माने । मतलब । जैसे, शब्द या वाक्य का (को॰) · राय । विचार । सलाह (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
अभिप्राय · abhiprāya · s.m.
Aim, purpose, intention, design, wish, desire; sentiment; goal; the main purport of a book, &c — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 5
अभिप्राय · masculine
purpose, aim, goal
Cited formation "अभिप्राय" is अभि- + प्राय: प्राय means "Going away, departure", and the prefix अभि- forms towards, against, superior, special. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi अभिप्राय — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit अभिप्राय (abhiprāya). Cognate with Bengali অভিপ্রায় (obhipraẏ).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
abhi-prāya See abhi-pre.
abhi-prāya m. aim, Pāṇ. i, 3, 72
As a Sanskrit word
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abhi-prāya See abhi-pre.
abhi-prāya m. aim, Pāṇ. i, 3, 72
purpose, intention, wish, R. &c.
opinion, Mn. vii, 57, &c.
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