Amiva, Amīvā: 8 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Amīvā (अमीवा).—[am-van-īḍāgamaḥ nipātaḥ] Ved.

1) Affliction, sickness, disease.

2) Distress, terror.

3) A demon, tormenting spirit.

-vaḥ An enemy, one who afflicts or torments;

-vam 1 Affliction, distress, pain, injury, कच्चिद् बुधः स्वस्त्यनमीव आस्ते (kaccid budhaḥ svastyanamīva āste) Bhāgavata 3.1.32. कुठारैश्चिच्छिदुः क्रुद्धाः स्मरन्तोऽमीवमस्य तत् (kuṭhāraiścicchiduḥ kruddhāḥ smaranto'mīvamasya tat) Bhāgavata 4.28.26.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Amīva (अमीव).—n.

(-vaṃ) 1. Sin. 2. Pain.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Amīva (अमीव).—[am + īva], n. Pain, [Rāmāyaṇa] 3, 59, 23.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Amīva (अमीव).—[neuter] pain, disease, distress, grief; [feminine] amīvā the same, concr. tormentor, fiend.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Amīva (अमीव):—n. (√am), pain, grief, [Rāmāyaṇa; Bhāgavata-purāṇa]

2) Amīvā (अमीवा):—[from amīva] f. distress, terror, fright, [Ṛg-veda; Atharva-veda; Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā]

3) [v.s. ...] tormenting spirit, demon, [Ṛg-veda; Atharva-veda]

4) [v.s. ...] affliction, disease, [Ṛg-veda]

5) Āmīvā (आमीवा):—[=ā-mīvā] f. disease, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Amīva (अमीव):—[a-mīva] (vaṃ) 1. n. Sin; pain.

[Sanskrit to German]

Amiva in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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