Malinya, Mālinya: 12 definitions
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Alternative spellings of this word include Maliny.
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Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarymālinya (मालिन्य).—n S Dirtiness, filthiness, foulness.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishmālinya (मालिन्य).—n Dirtiness, filthiness, foulness.
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 dictionaryMālinya (मालिन्य).—[malinasya bhāvaḥ ṣyañ]
1) Dirtiness, foulness, impurity.
2) Pollution, defilement.
3) Sinfulness.
4) Blackness.
5) Trouble, affliction.
Derivable forms: mālinyam (मालिन्यम्).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryMālinya (मालिन्य).—n.
(-nyaṃ) 1. Foulness, dirtiness, impurity. 2. Blackness. 3. Sinfulness. 4. Trouble, affliction.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryMālinya (मालिन्य).—i. e. malina + ya, n. Blackness, Böhtl. Ind. Spr. 1915 (mālinyaṃ ko doṣaḥ, What an object of blame is the blackness! i. e. the blackness is no object of blame).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryMālinya (मालिन्य).—[neuter] foulness, defilement, impurity.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Mālinya (मालिन्य):—mfn. ([from] malina) [gana] saṃkāśādi
2) n. foulness, dirtiness, impurity, [Kāvya literature; Kathāsaritsāgara; Rājataraṅgiṇī]
3) darkness, obscurity, [Śārṅgadhara-paddhati]
4) trouble, shame, affliction (cf. vadana-m).
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Mālinya (मालिन्य) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Māliṇṇa, Mālinna.
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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 dictionaryMālinya (मालिन्य) [Also spelled maliny]:—(nm) sullenness; rancour, estrangement; impurity, dirtiness.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusMālinya (ಮಾಲಿನ್ಯ):—
1) [noun] the quality, fact or state of being dirty; want of cleanliness; dirtiness.
2) [noun] darkness; want of sufficient light.
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)
Ends with: Jalamalinya, Manomalinya, Vadanamalinya, Vayumalinya.
Full-text: Vadanamalinya, Malinna, Maliny, Parisara, Madhyagata, Malina.
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Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana (by Gaurapada Dāsa)
Text 7.75 < [Chapter 7 - Literary Faults]
Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī)
Verse 2.3.47 < [Part 3 - Involuntary Ecstatic Expressions (sattvika-bhāva)]
Verse 2.4.21 < [Part 4 - Transient Ecstatic Disturbances (vyābhicāri-bhāva)]
Hanuman Nataka (critical study) (by Nurima Yeasmin)
7. Kavisamayas in the Hanumannāṭaka < [Chapter 4]
Satirical works of Kshemendra (study) (by Arpana Devi)
2. Kavisamaya or the poetic convention < [Chapter 4 - Literary study of the Three Satirical Works]
The backdrop of the Srikanthacarita and the Mankhakosa (by Dhrubajit Sarma)
Part 6 - Kavisamaya or the poetic convention < [Chapter III - Literary Assessment Of The Śrīkaṇṭhacarita]
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 3 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)
Part 3 - Āḻvārs and Śrī-vaiṣṇavas on certain points of controversy in religious dogmas < [Chapter XVII - The Āḻvārs]