As a deity name
Name 811 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
Name 368 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
सहना
to bear, suffer; to tolerate
Śabdasāgara also records: सहित । समेत · एक साथ । युगपत्
Platts (p. 704) also records: (f. -ā), Bearing, enduring, suffering; sustaining
Cited formation "सह" is स- + ह: ह means "the thirty-third consonant in Hindi", and the prefix स- forms with, together with, same. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(23) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *séǵʰeti Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáȷ́ʰatay Sanskrit सह॑ते (sáhate) Prakrit 𑀲𑀳𑀇 (sahaï) Hindi सहना Inherited from Prakrit 𑀲𑀳𑀇 (sahaï), from Sanskrit सह॑ते (sáhate), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáȷ́ʰatay, from Proto-Indo-Europe…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
together with, along with, with (with √ grah and ā-√ dā, ‘to take with one’; with √ dā, ‘to give to take away with one’; with kṛtvā and acc., ‘taking with one’, ‘in the company of’…
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "saha" is the vocative of "sahā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
1. saha mf(ā)n. powerful, mighty, RV.
(ifc.) overcoming, vanquishing, MBh.
bearing, enduring, withstanding, defying, equal to, a match for (gen. or comp.), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
causing, effecting, stimulating, exerting, Śiś.
able to, capable of (inf. or comp.), Kālid.; Śiś.; Kathās.
sahā (ā), f. the earth, L.
(with Buddhists) N. of a division of the world (with loka-dhātu, ‘the world inhabited by men’), Kāraṇḍ.
Alternative readings
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