विशोक viśoka
boy 3 syllables SLP1 viSoka

As a deity name

Name 631 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed

As a Hindi name

विशोक · noun · masculine

अशोक वृक्ष · युधिष्ठिर के एक अनुचर का नाम · पूराणानुसार ब्रह्मा के एक मानस पुत्र का नाम — Śabdasāgara

विशोक · adj

जिसे शोक न हो । शओकरहित — Śabdasāgara

विशोक · vi-śok · adj.

Freed from grief, free from sorrow, happy — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1194

Cited formation "विशोक" is वि- + शोक: शोक means "mourning, grief, lament", and the prefix वि- forms lacking, away, special, various, opposite. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(16) — cited from the extracted rule table

As a Sanskrit word

Meaning

free from sorrow

Scripturally attested Verified derivationMultiple readings (4)

Why this matches what you typed

M1 · same meaning "viśoka" is the vocative of "viśokā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.

Dictionary citations

Monier-Williams (1899) · विशोक

vi—śoka m. cessation of sorrow, BhP.

Monier-Williams (1899) · विशोक

vi—śoka mf(ā)n. free from sorrow

Monier-Williams (1899) · विशोक

removing sor˚, AitBr.; Up. &c.

Monier-Williams (1899) · विशोक

containing no description of any sor˚, Sāh.

Monier-Williams (1899) · विशोक

vi—śoka m. Jonesia Asoka, L.

Monier-Williams (1899) · विशोका (linked stem)

vi—śokā (ā), f. N. of one of the perfections which are obtained by Yoga, Sarvad.; VP.

Monier-Williams (1899) · विशोका (linked stem)

exemption from grief (one of the original properties of man), MW.

Alternative readings

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