As a deity name
Name 55 of the Durga Sahasranāma — Kula Arnava Tantra / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 896 of the Gayatri Sahasranāma — Devi Bhagavata Purana, as taught by Sages
Name 29 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
Name 412 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
विद्या · noun · feminine
वह ज्ञान जो शिक्षा आदि के द्वारा उपार्जित या प्राप्त किया जाता है । वह जानकारी जो सीखकर हासिल की जाती है । किसी विषय का विशिष्ट ज्ञान । इल्म । जैसे,— (क) विद्या पढ़कर मनुष्य पंडित होता है । (ख) आजकल पाठशालाओं मों अनेक प्रकार की विद्याएँ पढ़ाई जाती हैं · वह ज्ञान जिसके द्वारा मोक्ष की प्राप्ति या परमपुरुषार्थ की सिद्धि होती है · वे शास्त्र आदि जिनके द्वारा ज्ञान प्राप्त किया जाता है — Śabdasāgara
विद्या · vidyā · s.f.
Knowledge, learning, scholarship; science, philosophy — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1185
विद्या · feminine
a female given name, Vidya, from Sanskrit
विद्या · feminine
learning; discipline, branch of learning
Cited formation "विद्या" is विद्य + -आ: विद्य means "लाभ । प्राप्ति", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "विद्या" is विद्य + -आ: विद्य means "लाभ । प्राप्ति", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Sanskrit विद् (vid) Sanskrit -या (-yā) Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā)lbor. Hindi विद्या Learned borrowing from Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
knowledge (cf. kāla-jāta-v˚), science, learning, scholarship, philosophy, &c. &c. (according to some there are four Vidyās or sciences, 1. trayī, the triple Veda; 2. ānvīkṣikī, log…
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M1 · same meaning "vidyā" is the feminine form of "vidya" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M3 · meaning shifts "vidya" is derived from "vid" with the yat suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
1. vid cl. 2. P. (Dhātup. xxiv, 56) vetti (vidmahe, Br.; vedati, ˚te, Up.; MBh.; vidati, ˚te, AV. &c.; vindati, ˚te, MBh. &c.; Impv. vidāṃ-karotu, Pañcat. [cf. Pāṇ. iii, 1, 41]; 1. sg. impf. avedam, 2. sg. avet or aves [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 75] RV. &c. &c.; 3. pl. avidus, Br. [cf. Pāṇ. iii, 4, 109]; avidan, MBh. &c.; pf. veda [often substituted for pr. vetti cf. Pāṇ. iii, 4, 83], 3. pl. vidus or vidre, RV.; viveda, MBh. &c.; vidāṃcakāra, Br. &c. [cf. Pāṇ. iii, 1, 38; accord. to Vop. also vidām-babhūva]; aor. avedīt, ib.; vidām-akran, TBr.; fut. veditā, ŚBr.; vettā, MBh. fut. vediṣyati, ˚te, Br.; Up.; vetsyati, ˚te, MBh. &c.; inf. veditum, ˚tos, Br.; vettum, MBh. &c.; ind.p. viditvā, Br. &c.), to know, understand, perceive, learn, become or be acquainted with, be conscious of, have a correct notion of (with acc., in older, language also with gen.; with inf. = to know how to), RV. &c. &c. (viddhi yathā, ‘know that’; vidyāt, ‘one should know’, ‘it should be understood’; ya evam veda [in Br.], ‘who knows thus’, ‘who has this knowledge’); to know or regard or consider as, take for, declare to be, call (esp. in 3. pl. vidus, with two acc. or with acc. and nom. with iti, e.g. taṃ sthaviraṃ viduḥ, ‘they consider or call him aged’; rājarṣir iti māṃ viduḥ, ‘they consider me a Rājarṣi’), Up.; Mn.; MBh. &c.; to mind, notice, observe, remember (with gen. or acc.), RV.; AV.; Br.; to experience, feel (acc. or gen.), RV. &c. &c.; to wish to know, inquire about (acc.), ŚBr.; MBh. : Caus. vedayate (rarely ˚ti; aor. avīvidat; Pass. vedyate), to make known, announce, report, tell, ŚBr. &c. &c.; to teach, explain, ŚāṅkhŚr.; Nir.; to recognize or regard as, take for (two acc.), MBh.; Kāv. &c.; to feel, experience, ŚBr.; Mn. &c.: Desid. of Caus. in vivedayiṣu, q.v.: Desid. vividiṣati or vivitsati, to wish to know or learn, inquire about (acc.), ŚBr.; &c. : Intens. vevidyate, vevetti Gr.
vid [cf. Gk. εἶδον for ἐϝιδον, οἶδα for ϝοιδα = veda; Lat. videre; Slav. věděti; Goth. witan, wait; Germ. wizzan, wissen; Angl.Sax. wât; Eng. wot.]
1. vidya (for 2. See p. 965, col. 1) = vidyā (ifc.; see a-v˚, kṛta-vidya, samāna-vidya-tā).
2. vidya n. finding, acquiring, gaining (see pativ˚ and putra-v˚).
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vidyā f. knowledge (cf. kāla-jāta-v˚), science, learning, scholarship, philosophy, RV. &c. &c. (according to some there are four Vidyās or sciences, 1. trayī, the triple Veda; 2. ānvīkṣikī, logic and metaphysics; 3. daṇḍa-nīti, the science of government; 4. vārttā, practical arts, such as agriculture, commerce, medicine &c.; and, Manu. vii, 43 adds a fifth, viz. ātma-vidyā, knowledge of soul or of spiritual truth; according to others, Vidyā has fourteen divisions, viz. the four Vedas, the six Vedāṅgas, the Purāṇas, the Mīmāṃsā. Nyāya, and Dharma or law ; or with the four Upa-vedas, eighteen divisions; others reckon 33 and even 64 sciences [= kalās or arts]; Knowledge is also personified and identified with Durgā; she is even said to have composed prayers and magical formulas)
any knowledge whether true or false (with Pāśupatas), Sarvad.
a spell, incantation, MBh.; Ragh.; Kathās.
magical skill, MW.
a kind of magical pill (which placed in the mouth is supposed to give the power of ascending to heaven), W.
1. vidya (for 2. See p. 965, col. 1) = vidyā (ifc.; see a-v˚, kṛta-vidya, samāna-vidya-tā).
2. vidya n. finding, acquiring, gaining (see pativ˚ and putra-v˚).
1. vid cl. 2. P. (Dhātup. xxiv, 56) vetti (vidmahe, Br.; vedati, ˚te, Up.; MBh.; vidati, ˚te, AV. &c.; vindati, ˚te, MBh. &c.; Impv. vidāṃ-karotu, Pañcat. [cf. Pāṇ. iii, 1, 41]; 1. sg. impf. avedam, 2. sg. avet or aves [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 75] RV. &c. &c.; 3. pl. avidus, Br. [cf. Pāṇ. iii, 4, 109]; avidan, MBh. &c.; pf. veda [often substituted for pr. vetti cf. Pāṇ. iii, 4, 83], 3. pl. vidus or vidre, RV.; viveda, MBh. &c.; vidāṃcakāra, Br. &c. [cf. Pāṇ. iii, 1, 38; accord. to Vop. also vidām-babhūva]; aor. avedīt, ib.; vidām-akran, TBr.; fut. veditā, ŚBr.; vettā, MBh. fut. vediṣyati, ˚te, Br.; Up.; vetsyati, ˚te, MBh. &c.; inf. veditum, ˚tos, Br.; vettum, MBh. &c.; ind.p. viditvā, Br. &c.), to know, understand, perceive, learn, become or be acquainted with, be conscious of, have a correct notion of (with acc., in older, language also with gen.; with inf. = to know how to), RV. &c. &c. (viddhi yathā, ‘know that’; vidyāt, ‘one should know’, ‘it should be understood’; ya evam veda [in Br.], ‘who knows thus’, ‘who has this knowledge’); to know or regard or consider as, take for, declare to be, call (esp. in 3. pl. vidus, with two acc. or with acc. and nom. with iti, e.g. taṃ sthaviraṃ viduḥ, ‘they consider or call him aged’; rājarṣir iti māṃ viduḥ, ‘they consider me a Rājarṣi’), Up.; Mn.; MBh. &c.; to mind, notice, observe, remember (with gen. or acc.), RV.; AV.; Br.; to experience, feel (acc. or gen.), RV. &c. &c.; to wish to know, inquire about (acc.), ŚBr.; MBh. : Caus. vedayate (rarely ˚ti; aor. avīvidat; Pass. vedyate), to make known, announce, report, tell, ŚBr. &c. &c.; to teach, explain, ŚāṅkhŚr.; Nir.; to recognize or regard as, take for (two acc.), MBh.; Kāv. &c.; to feel, experience, ŚBr.; Mn. &c.: Desid. of Caus. in vivedayiṣu, q.v.: Desid. vividiṣati or vivitsati, to wish to know or learn, inquire about (acc.), ŚBr.; &c. : Intens. vevidyate, vevetti Gr.
vid [cf. Gk. εἶδον for ἐϝιδον, οἶδα for ϝοιδα = veda; Lat. videre; Slav. věděti; Goth. witan, wait; Germ. wizzan, wissen; Angl.Sax. wât; Eng. wot.]
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