Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“destitute”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a deity name
Name 798 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“destitute”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
अचेतन · adj
चेतनारहित । जिसमें चेतना का अभाव हो । जिसमें सुख दुःख आदि किसी प्रकार के अनुभव की शक्ति न हो । जड़ । 'चेतन' का उलटा · अज्ञान (को॰) · जीवरहित । निर्जीव (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
अचेतन · noun · masculine
अचैतन्य पदार्थ । जड़ द्रव्य — Śabdasāgara
अचेतन · aćetan · adj.
= اچيت aćet; and = اچيتنيه aćaitanya, qq.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 28
Cited formation "अचेतन" is अचेत + -न: अचेत means "unconscious", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "अचेतन" is अ- + चेतन: चेतन means "Percipient, perceiving, observing, sentient, conscious, intelligent, rational", and the prefix अ- forms negation, lack. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "अचेतन" is अ- + चेतन: चेतन means "Percipient, perceiving, observing, sentient, conscious, intelligent, rational", and the prefix अ- forms without, lacking. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §4(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
without consciousness, inanimate
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
a-cetana mfn. without consciousness, inanimate
unconscious, insensible, senseless, fainting, &c.
acetana a. [na. ba.] 1 Inanimate, not sentient, irrational; cetana ˚neṣu Me. 5; ˚naṃ brahma inanimate Brahma; ˚naṃ nāma guṇaṃ na lakṣayet Ś. 6. 12 destitute of life, lifeless (object &c.); ˚neṣvapi cetanāvapaducāraḥ Mbh. 2 Not conscious, insensible; senseless; buddhiśatamacetane naṣṭaṃ H. 2. 161.
acetana mfn. (-naḥ-nā-naṃ) Insensible, unconscious, devoid of reason or feeling. E. a neg. cetanā consciousness.
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