The Sanskrit term for archery, dhanurveda, came to refer to martial arts in general.

( The Pali / Sanskrit term for monks and nuns means " one who seeks alms ".

Ap () is the Vedic Sanskrit term for water, in Classical Sanskrit occurring only in the plural is not an element. v, ( sometimes re-analysed as a thematic singular, ), whence Hindi.

In Buddhist literature the Sanskrit term cakra ( Pali cakka ) is used in a different sense of " circle ," referring to a Buddhist conception of the Cycle of Rebirth consisting of six states in which beings may be reborn.

It is a term which has already been used more or less distinctively by Sanskrit philologists, as a generic appellation for the South Indian people and their languages, and it is the only single term they ever seem to have used in this manner.

Dukkha ( Pāli ; Sanskrit: ; Tibetan phonetic: dukngal ) is a Buddhist term commonly translated as " suffering ", " stress ", " anxiety ", or " dissatisfaction ".

The rapid spread of the term may be related to the almost exclusive use of this script to publish sacred Sanskrit texts.

The Pali term dukkha ( Sanskrit: duhkha ) is typically translated as " suffering ", but the term dukkha has a much broader meaning than the typical use of the word " suffering ".

The term " noble truths " is a common translation of the Pali terms ariya sacca ( Sanskrit: arya satya ).

The Pali term sacca ( Sanskrit: satya ) means " truth " and " real " or " actual thing.

Hindi, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Nepali, Marathi and Sanskrit have the term ( Devanagari: म ा त ृ भ ू म ी), literally " Mother-Earth ".

Hīnayāna ( ह ी नय ा न ) is a Sanskrit and Pāli term literally meaning: the " Inferior Vehicle ", " Deficient Vehicle ", the " Abandoned Vehicle ", or the " Defective Vehicle ".

The term Padawan appears to originate in Sanskrit and can be understood as “ learner ," both in Sanskrit and by contemporary native speakers of Sanskrit-based languages.

Bhakti is a Sanskrit term, meaning " loving devotion to the supreme God.

The Indian free software community sometimes uses the term " Swatantra software ", borrowing a word from Sanskrit.

A bhikkhu ( the term in the Pali language ) or Bhikshu ( in Sanskrit ), first ordains as a Samanera ( novice ).

Nirvāṇa (;, nibbāna ; ) is an ancient Sanskrit term used in Indian religions to describe the profound peace of mind that is acquired with moksha ( liberation ).

" This term may be derived from the Sanskrit words " rddhi " and " hrdya ," which mean " magical ," " a type of medicinal plant ", and " heart-pleasing ".

The scientific name Piper and the common name " pepper " are derived from the Sanskrit term pippali, denoting the Long Pepper ( P. longum ).

Prakrit is foremost a native term, designating " vernaculars " as opposed to Sanskrit.

According to the dictionary of Monier Monier-Williams, the most frequent meanings of the Sanskrit term, from which the word " prakrit " is derived, are " original, natural, normal " and the term is derived from, " making or placing before or at first, the original or natural form or condition of anything, original or primary substance ".

Its latest meaning is more or less similar to the Sanskrit word kalpa and Hebrew word olam.

Rasa theory blossoms beginning with the Sanskrit text Nātyashāstra ( nātya meaning " drama " and shāstra meaning " science of "), a work attributed to Bharata Muni where the Gods declare that drama is the ' Fifth Veda ' because it is suitable for the degenerate age as the best form of religious instruction.

Some of the ancient names of this body of water include Sindhu Sagar ( meaning " Sea of Sindh " in Sanskrit ) and Erythraean Sea.

In Hinduism, Vayu ( Sanskrit व ा य ु ), also known as Vāta व ा त, Pavana पवन ( meaning the Purifier ), or Prāna, is a primary deity, who is the father of Bhima and the spiritual father of Lord Hanuman.

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

The Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary lists for the Sanskrit word a meaning of " collective Name for 5 peoples, viz.

The word " Emerald " is derived ( via Old French: Esmeraude and Middle English: Emeraude ), from Vulgar Latin: Esmaralda / Esmaraldus, a variant of Latin Smaragdus, which originated in Greek: σμάραγδος ( smaragdos ; " green gem "); its original source being either the Sanskrit word मरकत marakata meaning " emerald " or the Semitic word baraq ( ב ָּ ר ָ ק ; الب ُ راق ; " lightning " or " shine ") ( cf.

Hari is mentioned in Sanskrit as yellow or golden color equivalent to Persian Zar meaning Gold ( yellow ).

Jains practice Samayika, which is a Sanskrit word meaning equanimity.

This has been said to derive from the παν-" all " and θήρ from θηρευτής " predator ", meaning " predator of all " ( animals ), though this may be a folk etymology — it may instead be ultimately of Sanskrit origin, from pundarikam, the Sanskrit word for " tiger ".

The word " kludge " is, according to Burling, derived from the same root as the German " klug " ( Dutch kloog, Swedish Klag, Danish Klog, Gothic Klaugen, Lettish Kladnis and Sanskrit Veklaunn ), originally meaning " smart " or " witty ".

Additionally, Sanskrit grammarians debated for over twelve centuries whether humans ' ability to recognize the meaning of words was god-given ( possibly innate ) or passed down by previous generations and learned from already established conventions — e. g. a child learning the word for cow by listening to trusted speakers talking about cows.

The English word " mandarin " ( from Portuguese mandarim, from Malay menteri, from Hindi mantri, from Sanskrit mantrin, meaning " minister or counsellor "), originally meant an official of the Chinese empire.

The word is originally from a PIE verbal root, meaning " to think, remember ", whence also Latin mens " mind ", Sanskrit

Muay boran, and therefore muay Thai, was originally called by more generic names such as pahuyuth ( from the Sanskrit bahu-yuddha meaning unarmed combat ), dhoi muay ( boxing or pugilism, a cognate of the Malay word tomoi ) or simply muay.

The name Indus comes from the Sanskrit word sindhu, meaning ocean, from which also come the words Sindh, Hindu, and India.

Philosophical conceptions of qi from the earliest records of Chinese philosophy ( 5th century BCE ) correspond to Western notions of humours and the ancient Hindu yogic concept of prana, meaning " life force " in Sanskrit.

The Old Irish sam (' summer ') is from Proto-Indo-European language ( PIE ) * semo -; cognates are Welsh haf, Breton hañv, English summer and Old Norse language sumar, all meaning ' summer ', and the Sanskrit sáma (" season ").

The word itself is from Sanskrit " Samudra ", ( सम ु द ् र ), meaning " gathering together of waters, sea or ocean ".

His name "" means " painless, without sorrow " in Sanskrit ( the a privativum and śoka " pain, distress ").

Borax was known from the deserts of western Tibet, where it received the name of tincal, derived from the Sanskrit.

This thesis is supported by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, explaining that the Turko-Mongol name Timur underwent a similar evolution, from the Sanskrit word cimara (" iron ") via a modified version * čimr to the final Turkicized version timür, with-ür replacing-r due to the Turkish vowel harmony ( hence babr → babür ).

Its name derives from the Sanskrit word for " wheel " or " turning " ( चक ् र ं, pronounced in Hindi ; Pali: cakka चक ् क, Oriya: ଚକ ୍ ର, Malayalam: ചക ് ര ം, Thai: จ ั กระ, Telugu: చక ్ రo, Tamil: சக ் கரம ், Kannada: ಚಕ ್ ರ, Chinese: 輪 / 轮, pinyin: lún,, Wylie: khor lo ).

Sanskrit priyā " beloved ") and was known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time: e. g. Friggja in Sweden, Frīg ( genitive Frīge ) in Old English, and Fricka in Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Some historians ascribe Kabul the Sanskrit name of Kamboja ( Kamboj ).

According to some of these sources, the Koh-i-Noor was originally found more than 5000 years ago, and is mentioned in ancient Sanskrit writings under the name Syamantaka.

Guānyīn is a translation from the Sanskrit Avalokitasvara, referring to the Mahāyāna bodhisattva of the same name.

Direct translations from the Sanskrit name Avalokitasvara include:

The name Avalokitasvara was later supplanted by the Avalokiteśvara form containing the ending-īśvara, which does not occur in Sanskrit before the seventh century.

Direct translations from the Sanskrit name Avalokiteśvara include:

" Mani " is a Sanskrit name used in all three Aramaic dialects and therefore common among their speakers.

The royal title ro-ja is read on several documents, including on stone libation tables from the sanctuaries, where it follows the name of the main god, Asirai ( the equivalent of Sanskrit Asura, and of Avestan Ahura ).

La Marle suggests that the name mwi-nu ( Minos ) is expected to mean ' ascetic ' as Sanskrit muni, and fits this explanation to the legend about Minos sometimes living in caves on Crete.

* The name Nepal is also supposed to be derived from the Sanskrit word " NEP "( न े प ), with the suffix " AL " ( आल ) added to it ; though still under controversy, NEP were the people who used to be cow herders — the GOPALS ( ग ो प ा ल )— who came to the Nepal valley for the first time from the Ganges plain of India.

The locations of Sattagydia and Hindush and the extent of their boundaries have not been identified either though it is certain that these two tributaries existed along the river Indus as the name Hindush is analogous with the Indus and was derived by the Persians from the Sanskrit word Sindhu.

The only name which can be said to truly fit God's transcendent state is Sat ( Sanskrit Satnam, Truth ), the changeless and timeless Reality.

Prakrit ( also transliterated as Pracrit ) ( Sanskrit:, Shauraseni: प ा उद, Telugu: ప ్ ర ా క ృ త, Maharashtri: प ा उअ ) is the name for a group of Middle Indo-Aryan languages, derived from dialects of Old Indo-Aryan languages.

The name derives from the Sanskrit श ् र ी ल ं क ा śrī ( venerable ) and lankā ( island ), the name of the island in the ancient Indian epics Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

In South Asia, nutmeg, which originates from the Banda Islands in the Molukas, has a Sanskrit name.

The name stems from Serendip, an old name for Sri Lanka ( aka Ceylon ), from Arabic Sarandib, which was adopted from Tamil " Seren deevu " or originally from Sanskrit Suvarnadweepa or golden island ( some trace the etymology to Simhaladvipa which literally translates to " Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island ").