Alternative spellings of this word include Budhvar.

In Hinduism

Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Wisdom Library: Jyotiṣa

Budhavāra (बुधवार) refers to “wednesday”. The corresponding planet is budha (mercury; literal translation: ‘awakening’, ‘intelligent’ etc). It is one of the seven days of the week (vāra). The term is used throughout Jyotiṣa literature.

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Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

Vaishnavism (Vaishava dharma)

Source: Pure Bhakti: Arcana-dipika - 3rd Edition

Budhavāra (बुधवार) refers to “Wednesday” and represents the first “day of the week” (vāra).—In accordance with the day of the week, one would utter, for example, budha-vārānvitāyāṃ.

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Vaishnava (वैष्णव, vaiṣṇava) or vaishnavism (vaiṣṇavism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshipping Vishnu as the supreme Lord. Similar to the Shaktism and Shaivism traditions, Vaishnavism also developed as an individual movement, famous for its exposition of the dashavatara (‘ten avatars of Vishnu’).

Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

budhavāra : (m.) Wednesday.

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

budhavāra (बुधवार).—m (S Day of Mercury.) Wednesday. Pr. navaṛyāsa nāhīṃ thāṅga budhavāracēṃ lagna.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

budhavāra (बुधवार).—m Wednesday.

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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 dictionary

Budhavāra (बुधवार).—Wednesday.

Derivable forms: budhavāraḥ (बुधवारः).

Budhavāra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms budha and vāra (वार). See also (synonyms): budhadina, budhavāsara.

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

Budhavāra (बुधवार).—m.

(-raḥ) Wednesday, E. budh Mercury, and vāra a day.

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

Budhavāra (बुधवार):—[=budha-vāra] [from budha > budh] m. = -dina, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Budhavāra (बुधवार):—[budha-vāra] (raḥ) 1. m. Wednesday.

[Sanskrit to German]

Budhavara 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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Budhavāra (बुधवार) [Also spelled budhvar]:—(nm) Wednesday; also ~[vāsara].

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Budhavāra (ಬುಧವಾರ):—[noun] the fourth day of the week; Wednesday.

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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: Vara, Budha.

Starts with: Budhavaranem.

Ends with: Budibudhavara.

Full-text: Vara, Buudhvaar, Budhvar, Kulavara, Budha, Budhavasara, Budhadina, Budhavaranem.

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