As a deity name
Name 987 of the Shiva Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Sage Tandi to Sage Upamanyu
Name 395 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
विराम · noun · masculine
किसी क्रिया या व्यापार का कुछ देर के लिये बद होना । रूकना या थमना । ठहराव । ठहरना । यो॰—विरामसंधि=युद्ध में लिप्त दोनो पक्षो की ओर कुछ समय के लिये युदध बंद करने का सपझौता । युदध बंद करने की संधि · चलने की थकावट दूर करने के लिये रास्ते में ठहरना । चलना रोकना । सुस्ताना । दम मारना । विश्राम · वाक्य के अंतर्गत वह स्थान जहाँ बोलते समय ठहरना पड़ता हो — Śabdasāgara
विराम · vi-rām · s.m.
Leaving off, cessation, rest, repose, discontinuance (of working, speaking, &c.); stopping, stop, pause, stoppage of sound; (in Gram.) 'the stop,' name of a small oblique stroke placed under a consonant to denote that it is quiescent, i.e. that it has no vowel inherent or otherwise pronounced after it (e.g. विराज् virāj) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1186
विराम · masculine
stop, ending; pause; comma; virama (a diacritic used to remove an inherent vowel)
Cited formation "विराम" is वि- + राम: राम means "Shri Rāma, the seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu", 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 विराम — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit विराम (virāma).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
vi-rāma m. cessation, termination, end, ŚāṅkhGṛ.; Mn. &c. (acc. with √ yā or pra-√ yā, to come to an end, rest)
end of a word or sentence, stop, pause (ifc. = ending with), APrāt.; Pāṇ. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
cessation, termination, end, &c. (acc. with √ yā or pra-√ yā, to come to an end, rest)
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Dictionary citations
vi-rāma m. cessation, termination, end, ŚāṅkhGṛ.; Mn. &c. (acc. with √ yā or pra-√ yā, to come to an end, rest)
end of a word or sentence, stop, pause (ifc. = ending with), APrāt.; Pāṇ. &c.
end of or caesura with in a Pāda, Śrutab.
(in gram.) ‘the stop’, N. of a small oblique stroke placed under a consonant to denote that it is quiescent i.e. that it has no vowel inherent or otherwise pronounced after it (this mark is sometimes used in the middle of conjunctions of consonants; but its proper use, according to native grammarians, is only as a stop at the end of a sentence ending in a consonant)
desistence, abstention, Kāś.; Vop.
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