As a deity name
Name 632 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 840 of the Hanuman Sahasranāma — Rasvin Samhita / Brahmanda Purana, as taught by Lord Ram / Sages
Name 196 of the Narasimha Sahasranāma — Brahmanda Purana / Narasimha Purana, as taught by Sages to Assembly of Devotees
Name 181 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
As a Hindi name
विजय · noun · feminine
युद्ध या विवाद आदि में होनेवाली जीत । विपक्षी या शत्रु को दबाकर अपना प्रभुत्व या पक्ष स्थापित करना । जय । जीत । पराजय का उलटा · एक प्रकार का छंद जो केशव के अनुसार सवैया का मत्तगयंद नामक भेद है · हरिवंश के अनुसार जयंत (इंद्र का पुत्र) के पुत्र का नाम (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
विजय · noun · masculine
भोजन करना । खाना । (पूरब) — Śabdasāgara
विजय · vi-jay · s.m.
Overcoming, defeating; surpassing, excelling — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1182
विजय · masculine
a male given name, Vijay, from Sanskrit
विजय · feminine
victory, success; conquest, triumph
Cited formation "विजय" is वि- + जय: जय means "victory, triumph", and the prefix वि- forms lacking, away, special, various, opposite. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(16) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi विजय — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit विजय (vijaya).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
vi-jaya m. contest for victory, victory, conquest, triumph, superiority, RV. &c. &c. (fig. applied to ‘the sword’ and to ‘punishment’, MBh. xii, 6204; 4428)
the prize of victory, booty, KātyŚr.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
contest for victory, victory, conquest, triumph, superiority, &c. &c. (fig. applied to ‘the sword’ and to ‘punishment’, )
Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (6)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "vijaya" is the vocative of "vijayā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
vi-jaya m. contest for victory, victory, conquest, triumph, superiority, RV. &c. &c. (fig. applied to ‘the sword’ and to ‘punishment’, MBh. xii, 6204; 4428)
the prize of victory, booty, KātyŚr.
N. of a partic. hour of the day (esp. the 17th, and the hour of Kṛṣṇa's birth accord. to some the 11th Muhūrta), MBh.; Hariv. &c.
the third month, L.
the 27th (or first) year of Jupiter's cycle, VarBṛS.
vi-jayā (ā), f. N. of various plants (accord to, L. Terminalia Chebula; Sesbania Aegyptiaca; Vitex Negundo; Rubia Munjista; Premna Spinosa; a kind of hemp; a kind of śamī; = vacā), VarBṛS.; Suśr. &c.
of a partic. Tithi or lunar day (the 12th day in the light half of Śrāvaṇa i.e. Kṛṣṇa's birthday, the 10th in that of Āśvina, being a festival in honour of Durgā, and the 7th in that of Bhādrapada, if it falls on a Sunday; also the 7th night in the Karma-māsa), VarBṛS.; BhP. &c.
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