Avishvasa, Aviśvāsa: 12 definitions
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Avishvasa means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit term Aviśvāsa can be transliterated into English as Avisvasa or Avishvasa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Avisvas.
In Hinduism
Sports, Arts and Entertainment (wordly enjoyments)
Source: archive.org: Syainika Sastra of Rudradeva with English Translation (art)Aviśvāsa (अविश्वास) refers to “distrusting someone” (i.e., “not inspiring someone with confidence”), according to the Śyainika-śāstra: a Sanskrit treatise dealing with the divisions and benefits of Hunting and Hawking, written by Rājā Rudradeva (or Candradeva) in possibly the 13th century.—Accordingly, [while discussing the importance of hawks]: “[...] To please and protect the people and to test their loyalty or otherwise by keen observation, to take into, and inspire them with confidence or to distrust them (aviśvāsa), as the case may be, to know their mind by the movement of their eyes and their actions, [...] and such other qualities, which have been highly spoken of in politics [are considered also essential in the art of hawking]”.
This section covers the skills and profiencies of the Kalas (“performing arts”) and Shastras (“sciences”) involving ancient Indian traditions of sports, games, arts, entertainment, love-making and other means of wordly enjoyments. Traditionally these topics were dealt with in Sanskrit treatises explaing the philosophy and the justification of enjoying the pleasures of the senses.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishaviśvāsa (अविश्वास).—m Distrust. aviśvasanīya a Un- worthy of confidence.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAviśvāsa (अविश्वास).—a. Not inspiring confidence, mistrusted.
-saḥ Mistrust, suspicion.
-sā A cow calving after long intervals.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryAviśvāsa (अविश्वास).—mfn.
(-saḥ-sā-saṃ) Mistrusted. m.
(-saḥ) Suspicion, mistrust. E. a neg. viśvāsa trust.
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Aviśvāsā (अविश्वासा).—f.
(-sā) A cow calving after long intervals. E. a neg. viśvāsa trust.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryAviśvāsa (अविश्वास).—m. 1. want of confidence, distrust, [Pañcatantra] i. [distich] 295. 2. treachery(?), [Rāmāyaṇa] 3, 52, 48. ºśam, adv. without confiding, distrustfully, [Pañcatantra] iii. [distich] 59.
Aviśvāsa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms a and viśvāsa (विश्वास).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryAviśvāsa (अविश्वास).—1. [masculine] mistrust, suspicion.
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Aviśvāsa (अविश्वास).—2. [adjective] mistrustful, suspicious.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Aviśvāsa (अविश्वास):—[=a-viśvāsa] [from a-viśvasat] m. mistrust, suspicion, [Mahābhārata xii, 5160; Rāmāyaṇa] etc.
2) [v.s. ...] mfn.not inspiring with confidence, mistrusted, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
3) Aviśvāsā (अविश्वासा):—[=a-viśvāsā] [from a-viśvāsa > a-viśvasat] f. a cow calving after long intervals, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Aviśvāsa (अविश्वास):—[a-viśvāsa] (saḥ) 1. m. Mistrust, unbelief, want of confidence.
2) Aviśvāsā (अविश्वासा):—[a-viśvāsā] (sā) 1. f. A cow calving after a long interval.
[Sanskrit to German]
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.
Hindi dictionary
Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionaryAviśvāsa (अविश्वास) [Also spelled avisvas]:—(nm) distrust, disbelief; non-confidence; suspicion, doubt; -[prastāva] no-confidence motion.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusAviśvāsa (ಅವಿಶ್ವಾಸ):—[noun] want of trust; lack of faith or confidence; distrust.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Vishvasa, A, Vishva.
Starts with: Avishvasajanaka, Avishvasanirnaya, Avishvasaniya, Avishvasaniyatva, Avishvasant, Avishvasat.
Ends with: Amdhavishvasa, Anavishvasa, Atmavishvasa, Gatavishvasa, Jatavishvasa, Upajatavishvasa.
Full-text: Avishvasin, Vishvasi, Vishvasu, Avisvas, Dvaidhibhava, Sukhodaya, Nihnava.
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