The Sanskrit term Aśrapa can be transliterated into English as Asrapa or Ashrapa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Aśrapa (अश्रप).—a blood drinker, a fiend, cannibal.

Derivable forms: aśrapaḥ (अश्रपः).

Aśrapa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms aśra and pa (प).

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Asrapa (अस्रप).—

1) 'a blood-drinker', a Rākṣasa or goblin; वध्यन्तेऽस्रपपुङ्गवाः (vadhyante'srapapuṅgavāḥ) Mv.6.24.

2) the Nakṣatra मूला (mūlā).

Derivable forms: asrapaḥ (अस्रपः).

Asrapa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms asra and pa (प).

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Asrapā (अस्रपा).—

1) a leech.

2) a Dākinī or female imp.

Asrapā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms asra and pā (पा).

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Āsrapa (आस्रप).—

1) 'blooddrinker', demon.

2) the 19th lunar mansion.

Derivable forms: āsrapaḥ (आस्रपः).

Āsrapa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms āsra and pa (प).

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

Aśrapa (अश्रप).—m.

(-paḥ) A fiend, a cannibal. E. aśra blood, and pa who drinks.

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Asrapa (अस्रप).—mf.

(-paḥ-pā) A Rakshasa or goblin. f.

(-pā) A leech. E. asra blood, and pa who drinks.

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Āsrapa (आस्रप).—m.

(-paḥ) The nineteenth lunar mansion. E. asrapa a Rakshasa or goblin, and aṇ aff. one of this race being the deity of the asterism.

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

1) Asrapa (अस्रप):—[=asra-pa] [from asra] m. (= asṛk-pa q.v.) a Rākṣasa, [Mahāvīra-caritra]

2) Asrapā (अस्रपा):—[=asra-pā] [from asra-pa > asra] f. a leech, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) [v.s. ...] a Ḍākinī or female imp, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

4) Āsrapa (आस्रप):—m. ([from] asra-pa), the nineteenth lunar mansion (presided over by the Rākṣasa Asra-pa), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

5) = asra-pa (q.v.), [Tārānātha tarkavācaspati’s Vācaspatyam, Sanskrit dictionary]

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

1) Aśrapa (अश्रप):—(paḥ) 1. m. A fiend; cannibal.

2) Asrapa (अस्रप):—[asra-pa] (paḥ) m. An imp.

3) Asrapā (अस्रपा):—[asra-pā] (pā) 1. f. A leech.

4) Āsrapa (आस्रप):—(paḥ) 1. m. A lunar mansion.

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context information

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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Asrapa (ಅಸ್ರಪ):—[noun] one who drinks the blood; a demon.

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Āsrapa (ಆಸ್ರಪ):—

1) [noun] a blood-drinker; a demon.

2) [noun] the asterism Mūlā, the nineteenth lunar mansion in the constellation Scorpius; Shaula.

context information

Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Partial matches: Asra, Pa.

Starts with: Ashrapana.

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