As a deity name
Name 988 of the Gopal Sahasranāma — Sammohana Tantra, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 262 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 731 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 137 of the Surya Sahasranāma — Bhavishya Purana, as taught by Lord Brahma / Sages
As a Hindi name
हंसाय · haṅsāʼe · conj.
of haṅsānā, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1237
हँसना
to laugh, chuckle; to smile; to laugh [with पर (par) ‘at’], to make fun of or joke about; to be or appear cheerful or pleasant
हँसाना
to make laugh, entertain
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit हसति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Hindi verb set हँसना (hãsnā) हँसाना (hãsānā) हँसवाना (hãsvānā) Etymology tree Proto-Indo-Aryan *źʰas- Sanskrit हस् (has) Sanskrit हसति (hasati) Prakrit 𑀳𑀲𑀇 (hasaï) Apabhramsa हसइ (hasaï) Hindi हँसना Inherited from Apabhramsa हसइ (hasaï), from Prakrit हसइ (hasaï), from Sanskrit…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Hindi verb set हँसना (hãsnā) हँसाना (hãsānā) हँसवाना (hãsvānā) From हँसना (hãsnā, “laugh”) + -आना (-ānā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
Nom. Ā. ˚yate, to be like a goose or swan
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (4)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "haṃsāya" is the dative of "haṃsa" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
haṃsāya Nom. Ā. ˚yate, to be like a goose or swan, Prasannar.
1. haṃsa m. (ifc. f(ā). ; accord. to Uṇ. iii, 62 fr. √ 1. han, ‘to go?’) a goose, gander, swan, flamingo (or other aquatic bird, considered as a bird of passage; sometimes a mere poetical or mythical bird, said in RV. to be able to separate Soma from water, when these two fluids are mixed, and in later literature, milk from water when these two are mixed; also forming in RV. the vehicle of the Aśvins, and in later lit˚ that of Brahmā; ifc. also = ‘best or chief among’), RV. &c. &c.
the soul or spirit (typified by the pure white colour of a goose or swan, and migratory like a goose; sometimes ‘the Universal Soul or Supreme Spirit’, identified with Virāj, Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu, Śiva, Kāma, and the Sun; du. ‘the universal and the individual Spirit’; accord. to Sāy. resolvable into ahaṃ sa, ‘I am that’), Up.; MBh.; Hariv. &c.
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