वनस्पति

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit वनस्पति (vanaspati).

Noun

वनस्पति • (vanaspati) m (Urdu spelling ونسپت)

1. plant, vegetation
2. vegetable

Declension

Declension of वनस्पति (masc i-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	वनस्पति vanaspati	वनस्पति vanaspati
oblique	वनस्पति vanaspati	वनस्पतियों vanaspatiyõ
vocative	वनस्पति vanaspati	वनस्पतियो vanaspatiyo

Synonyms

• (plant): पौधा (paudhā)
• (vegetable): सब्ज़ी (sabzī)

Sanskrit

Noun

वनस्पति • (vánaspáti) stem, m

1. ‘king of the wood’, a forest tree (especially a large tree bearing fruit apparently without blossoms, as several species of the fig, the jack tree etc., but also applied to any tree)
2. stem, trunk, beam, timber, post (especially the sacrificial post) (clarification of this definition is needed)
3. ‘lord of plants’, the सोम (soma) plant (clarification of this definition is needed)
4. the Indian fig-tree, Bignonia suaveolens
5. an offering made to the sacrificial post (clarification of this definition is needed)
6. anything made of wood (especially particular parts of a car or carriage, a wooden drum, a wooden amulet, a block on which criminals are executed, a coffin etc.)
7. an ascetic
8. name of Vishnu
9. name of a son of (clarification of this definition is needed) घृत-पृष्ठ (ghṛta-pṛṣṭha)
10. (in the dual) pestle and mortar

Noun

वनस्पति • (vanaspati) stem, f

1. name of a गन्धर्वी (gandharvī).(clarification of this definition is needed)

Descendants

• → Old Javanese: banaspati
  • Javanese: ꦧꦤꦱ꧀ꦥꦠꦶ (banaspati, “fire-demon”)
    • → Indonesian: banaspati
  • → Balinese: ᬩᬦᬲ᭄ᬧᬢᬶ (banaspati, “a lord of demon”)

Noun

वनस्पति • (vanaspati) stem, n

1. name of the वर्ष (varṣa) ruled by वनस्-पति (vanas-pati).(clarification of this definition is needed)

References

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