उपनिषद्

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit उपनिषद् (upaniṣad).

Proper noun

उपनिषद् • (upniṣad) f (Urdu spelling اپنشد‎)

  1. (Hinduism) an Upanishad (Hindu religious text)

Sanskrit

Etymology

उप- (upa-) +‎ नि- (ni-) +‎ सद् (sad)

Noun

उपनिषद् • (upaniṣad) f

  1. sitting at the foot of a teacher to receive knowledge
    1. secret knowledge passed in this manner
  2. esoteric cosmology
  3. esoteric doctrine, secret knowledge, mystical meaning, mystical words (ŚBr., ChUp., etc.)
  4. a class of Hindu religious texts in which doctrines of sacred knowledge are expounded

Root

उपनिषद् • (upaniṣad)

  1. sit, approach

Descendants

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0201
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