प्रीति

Sanskrit

Noun

प्रीति (prīti) f

  1. any pleasurable sensation, pleasure, joy, gladness, satisfaction (with loc. or ifc.; with ind.p., ‘joy at having done anything’).
  2. friendly disposition, kindness, favour, grace, amity (with समम् or ifc.), affection, love (with gen. loc., or ifc.).
  3. joy or gratification personified (esp. as a daughter of दक्ष or as one of the two wives of काम-देव) Hariv. Pur. Kathās.
  4. Name of a श्रुति.
  5. the 2nd of the 27 astrological Yogas.
  6. Name of the 13th कला of the moon.
  7. a symbolical expression for the sound ध्.
  8. in a friendly way, amicably

References

  • Monier William's Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 2nd Ed. 1899.

Read in another language

This page is available in 3 languages

Last modified on 24 January 2013, at 13:51