As a deity name
Name 528 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
As a Hindi name
ध्यान · noun · masculine
बाह्म इंद्रियों के प्रयोग कि बिना केवल मन में लाने की क्रिया या भाव । अतःकरण में उपस्थित करने की क्रिया या भाव । मानसिक प्रत्यंक्ष । जैसे, किसी देवता का ध्यान करना, किसी प्रिय व्यक्ति का ध्य़ान करना · सोच विचार । चिंतन । मनन । जैसे,— आजकल तुम किस ध्यान में रहते हो · भावना । प्रत्यय । विचार । ख्याल । जैसे,— (क) चलते समय तुम्हें यह ध्यान न हुआ कि धोती लेते चलें ? । (ख) मन में इस बात का ध्यान बना रहता है । क्रि॰ प्रं॰— होना — Śabdasāgara
ध्यान · noun · masculine
दमनक । दौना · गंधतृण — Śabdasāgara
ध्यान · dhyān · s.m.
Meditation, contemplation (especially profound and abstract religious contemplation); divine intuition or discernment; consideration, imagination (esp. that profound and abstract consideration which brings objects fully and undisturbedly before the mind); mental representation of the personal attributes of the divinity to whom worship may happen to be addressed — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 553
ध्यान · masculine
attention, focus; meditation, reflection; consideration, notice, heedfulness, care; reflection, reverie
Cited formation "ध्यान" is ध्या + -न: ध्या means "विचार । चिंतन", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "ध्यान" is ध्याना + -न: ध्याना means "स॰", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi ध्यान — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit ध्यान (dhyāna). Doublet of दीन (dīn) (“creed, religion”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
dhyāna n. meditation, thought, reflection, (esp.) profound and abstract religious meditation, (˚nam āpad, ā-√ sthā or ˚naṃ-√ gam, to indulge in r˚ m˚), ChUp.; Mn.; MBh.; Kāv. &c. (with Buddhists divided into 4 stages, MWB. 209; Dharmas. lxxii; but also into 3 ib. cix)
mental representation of the personal attributes of a deity, W.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
meditation, thought, reflection, (esp.) profound and abstract religious meditation, (˚nam āpad, ā-√ sthā or ˚naṃ-√ gam, to indulge in r˚ m˚), &c. (with Buddhists divided into 4 sta…
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dhyāna n. meditation, thought, reflection, (esp.) profound and abstract religious meditation, (˚nam āpad, ā-√ sthā or ˚naṃ-√ gam, to indulge in r˚ m˚), ChUp.; Mn.; MBh.; Kāv. &c. (with Buddhists divided into 4 stages, MWB. 209; Dharmas. lxxii; but also into 3 ib. cix)
mental representation of the personal attributes of a deity, W.
insensibility, dulness, Bhpr.
dhyāna m. N. of a partic. personification, MaitrS.
of the 11th day of the light half in Brahma's month, Pur.
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