Garbhashaya, Garbhāśaya, Garbha-ashaya: 14 definitions
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Garbhashaya 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 Garbhāśaya can be transliterated into English as Garbhasaya or Garbhashaya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Garbhashay.
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Garbhāśaya (गर्भाशय):—[garbhāśayaḥ] Uterus. The organ of female reproductive system for containing and nourishing the embryo.
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)
Garbhāśaya (गर्भाशय) refers to “infants in the womb”, according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 16) (“On the planets—graha-bhaktiyoga”), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “[...] Rāhu also presides over the most wicked in the family, over torturers, ungrateful men, thieves, persons who are untruthful, uncleanly and ungenerous; over ass-riders, duelists, persons of easily irritable temperament, infants in the womb (garbhāśaya) and Cāṇḍālas. [...]”.
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
garbhāśaya (गर्भाशय).—m (S) The uterus or womb. 2 The membrane that envelops the fœtus, secundines.
garbhāśaya (गर्भाशय).—m The womb.
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
Garbhāśaya (गर्भाशय).—the uterus, the womb.
Derivable forms: garbhāśayaḥ (गर्भाशयः).
Garbhāśaya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms garbha and āśaya (आशय).
Garbhaśayā (गर्भशया) or Garbhaśayyā.—f.
(-yā) The uterus. E. garbha, and śayā a bed.
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Garbhāśaya (गर्भाशय).—m.
(-yaḥ) The womb, the uterus. E. garbha the embryo, and āśaya asylum or abode.
Garbhāśaya (गर्भाशय).—m. the womb, Mahābhārata 14, 501.
Garbhāśaya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms garbha and āśaya (आशय).
Garbhāśaya (गर्भाशय):—[from garbha] m. = rbha-vasati, [Mahābhārata xiv; Suśruta]
1) Garbhaśayā (गर्भशया):—[garbha-śayā] (yyā) 1. f. The uterus.
2) Garbhāśaya (गर्भाशय):—[garbhā+śaya] (yaḥ) 1. m. The womb.
Garbhāśaya (गर्भाशय):—(garbha + āśaya) m. Uterus [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 1, 38.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 540.] [Mahābhārata 14, 501.] [Suśruta 1, 336, 20. 338, 1. 182, 6. 2, 56, 5.] garbhāśayastha [1, 278, 18.]
Garbhāśaya (गर्भाशय):—m. Mutterleib. stha Adj. im M. befindlich.
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
Garbhāśaya (गर्भाशय) [Also spelled garbhashay]:—(nm) the womb.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Garbhāśaya (ಗರ್ಭಾಶಯ):—[noun] a hollow, muscular organ of female mammals in which the ovum is deposited and the embryo and foetus are developed; the womb; the uterus.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Garbhāśaya (गर्भाशय):—n. womb; uterus;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Garbha, Saya, Ashaya, Caya.
Starts with (+0): Garbhashayana.
Full-text (+0): Garbhashay, Garbhashayya, Garbha, Garbhagara, Vanga, Assaka.
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