As a deity name
Name 852 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
आश्रम · noun · masculine
[वि॰ आश्रमी] ऋषियों और मुनियों का निवासस्थान । तपोवन · साधु संत के रहने की जगह — Śabdasāgara
आश्रम · āśram · s.m.
= آسرم āsram, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 57
आश्रम · masculine
monastery, hermitage, ashram
Cited formation "आश्रम" is आ- + श्रम: श्रम means "labour, work", and the prefix आ- forms until; contrary. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(8) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi आश्रम — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit आश्रम (āśrama).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
ā-śrama m. n. (√ śram), a hermitage, the abode of ascetics, the cell of a hermit or of retired saints or sages, Mn.; R.; Daś.; Ragh.; Megh. &c.
a stage in the life of a Brāhman (of which there are four corresponding to four different periods or conditions, viz. 1st, Brahmacārin, ‘student of the Veda’; 2nd, Gṛha-stha, ‘householder’; 3rd, Vānaprastha, ‘anchorite’; and 4th, Saṃnyāsin, ‘abandoner of all worldly concerns’, or sometimes Bhikṣu, ‘religious beggar’; in some places the law-givers mention only three such periods of religious life, the first being then omitted), Mn.; R.; Suśr.; Ragh. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a hermitage, the abode of ascetics, the cell of a hermit or of retired saints or sages, &c.
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
ā-śrama m. n. (√ śram), a hermitage, the abode of ascetics, the cell of a hermit or of retired saints or sages, Mn.; R.; Daś.; Ragh.; Megh. &c.
a stage in the life of a Brāhman (of which there are four corresponding to four different periods or conditions, viz. 1st, Brahmacārin, ‘student of the Veda’; 2nd, Gṛha-stha, ‘householder’; 3rd, Vānaprastha, ‘anchorite’; and 4th, Saṃnyāsin, ‘abandoner of all worldly concerns’, or sometimes Bhikṣu, ‘religious beggar’; in some places the law-givers mention only three such periods of religious life, the first being then omitted), Mn.; R.; Suśr.; Ragh. &c.
a hut built on festal occasions, VarBṛS.
a college, school
a wood or thicket, L.
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