Pha, Phā: 19 definitions
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Pha means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, the history of ancient India, Marathi, Jainism, Prakrit, 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.
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In Hinduism
Vyakarana (Sanskrit grammar)
Pha (फ).—(l) the letter or sound फ् (ph),the vowel अ (a) being added for facility of pronunciation ;(2) the affix फ (pha) for which आयन (āyana) is always substituted as given by Panini in P.VII.1.2.
Vyakarana (व्याकरण, vyākaraṇa) refers to Sanskrit grammar and represents one of the six additional sciences (vedanga) to be studied along with the Vedas. Vyakarana concerns itself with the rules of Sanskrit grammar and linguistic analysis in order to establish the correct context of words and sentences.
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Pha (फ).—This letter means Jhañjhāvāta. Phū is phūtkāra, a sound resembling hissing and means 'useless' also. (Chapter 348, Agni Purāṇa)
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
India history and geography
Phā.—(IE 8-1), abbreviation of Phālguna. Note: phā is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
pha (फ).—The twenty-second consonant. It corresponds nearly with Ph in Up-hill, Up-hold, if the words be divided and pronounced as U-phill, U-phold. It is the aspirate of प.
pha (फ).—The twenty-second consonant.
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
Pha (फ).—a. Obvious, evident.
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Pha (फ).—
1) A high wind, stormy gale.
2) Yawning with the mouth wide open.
3) Fruitfulness.
4) An increaser.
5) The performance of a mystical rite (to propitiate Kubera;s attendants).
6) Increasing, expanding.
7) Swelling.
8) Gain.
Derivable forms: phaḥ (फः).
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Phā (फा).—
1) Useless or idle speech (n., also).
2) Heat.
3) Increase.
4) An increaser.
-pham 1 An angry speech
2) Blowing into, puffing up.
3) Bubbling, boiling.
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Phā (फा).—m. (Nom. phās)
1) Heat.
2) Idle talk.
Pha (फ).—The twenty-second consonant of the Nagari Alphabet, the aspirate of the preceding letter, and expressed by P'h.
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Pha (फ).—m.
(-phaḥ) 1. Increasing, swelling, enlarging, expanding. 2. Performance of a mystical rite, by which Kuvera'S attendants are propitiated. 3. A high wind, a gale. 4. Wind expelled in yawning. 5. Fruitfulness, fertility. 6. An augmentor or increaser. nf. (phaṃ-phā) Unprofitable or idle speech. n.
(-phaṃ) 1. Angry speech. 2. Bursting with some little noise, as air bubbles, boiling water, &c.; bubbling, boiling. f.
(-phā) Distress, anxiety. E. phal to bear fruit, or sphāy to swell, aff. ḍa; in the latter case, the initial is rejected.
1) Pha (फ):—1. pha aspirate of pa.
2) 2. pha mfn. (only [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]) manifest
3) m. a gale
4) swelling
5) gaping
6) gain
7) = vardhaka
8) = yakṣa-sādhana
9) n. flowing
10) bursting with a popping noise
11) bubbling, boiling
12) angry or idle speech.
13) Phā (फा):—m. ([nominative case] phās) heat, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
14) idle talk, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
15) increase or increaser, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
1) Pha (फ):—ph. The 22nd consonant and aspirate of the preceding.
2) (phaḥ) 1. m. Increasing; a gale; a yawning; fertility; a mystical rite. f. Distress. n. Angry speech; bubbling up. f. n. Idle speech.
Pha (फ):—
1) adj. offenbar (mphuṭa) [VIŚVA im Śabdakalpadruma] —
2) m. a) = yakṣasādhana (performance of a mystical rite, by which Kuvera's attendants are propitiated [Wilson’s Wörterbuch]). — b) das Anschwellen. — c) ein starker Wind (jhañjhāvāta) [Medinīkoṣa ph. 1.] — d) das Gähnen mit weit geöffnetem Munde (jṛmbhāniṣphāra). — e) Vermehrer (vardhaka). — f) Gewinn (phalalābha) [VIŚVA.] —
3) n. a) eine zornige Rede. — b) unnützes Sprechen. — c) das Blasen, Pusten [Medinīkoṣa] — Vgl. vipha, sapha und phā .
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Phā (फा):—m. (nom. phās)
1) Gluth (saṃtāpa). —
2) unnützes Reden (niṣphalabhāṣaṇa) [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] —
3) Wachsthum, Vermehrung (vṛddhi). —
4) Vermehrer (vardhaka) [VIŚVA im Śabdakalpadruma] — Vgl. pha .
Pha (फ):——
1) Adj. offenbar. —
2) m. — a) ein brausender Windstoss. — b) das Anschwellen. — c) das Gähnen mit weit geöffnetem Munde. — d) Gewinn. — e) das sich zu Willen Machen — , Citiren eines Yakṣa. — f) = vardhaka. —
3) n. — a) eine zornige Rede. — b) unnützes Sprechen. — c) das Blasen , Pusten.
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Phā (फा):—m. (Nom. phās) —
1) Glut. —
2) unnützes Reden. —
3) Wachsthum , Vermehrung. —
4) Vermehrer.
Pha (फ) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Pha.
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
Pha (फ) [Also spelled f]:—-the second letter of the fifth pentad (i.e. [pavarga]) of the Devnagri: alphabet.
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Prakrit-English dictionary
Pha (फ) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Pha.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
Pha (ಫ):—
1) [noun] (gen. pronounced with the vowel 'ಅ') the thirty sixth letter of Kannaḍa alphabet and the twenty second consonant.
2) [noun] a symbol for the number two.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
1) Pha (फ):—n. the twenty-second letter of the Devanagari alphabet with the sound /ph/, /pʰ/ similar to /f/; the phonetic sign adopted for फ [pha ] in this dictionary is /pʰə/ and /pha/;
2) Phā (फा):—n. 1. → फाहा [phāhā ] ; 2. (baby talk) throwing;
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.
Pali-English dictionary
1) pha (ဖ)—
(1) paeiea kāriya pha．(2) phāeiea kāriyapha．
(၁) ပ၏ ကာရိယ ဖ။ (၂) ဖာဓာတ်၏ ကာရိယဖ။
2) pha (ဖ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
(1) pūmhu ce．(2) le．phaggava-．(3) --so ca．(4) --hūsoasaṃ (saṃ)．(5) a,amarhi．
(၁) ယဇ်ပူဇော်မှုကို ပြီးစေခြင်း။ (၂) လေ။ ဖဂ္ဂဝ-လည်းကြည့်။ (၃) ကြမ်းတမ်း-ထက်မြက်-သော စကား။ (၄) ဖုတ်ဖုတ်-ဝုတ်ဝုတ်-ဟူသောအသံ (ခွေးဟောင်သံ)။ (၅) အကျိုးမဲ့၊ အကျိုးမရှိ။
3) pha (ဖ)—
33- 22- pha-akkharā,oṭṭhaja-dhanita-pha．
ဗျည်း ၃၃-လုံးတို့တွင် ၂၂-လုံးမြောက် ဖ-အက္ခရာ၊ ဩဋ္ဌဇ-ဓနိတ-ဖဗျည်း။
[Pali to Burmese]
1) pha—
(Burmese text): ဗျည်း ၃၃-လုံးတို့တွင် ၂၂-လုံးမြောက် ဖ-အက္ခရာ၊ ဩဋ္ဌဇ-ဓနိတ-ဖဗျည်း။
တိပိ၊၁၅၊၁
(Auto-Translation): In the 33-letter set, the 22nd letter is the consonant "F," and it is associated with "Aught" and "Dhanita." Tipi, 15, 1
2) pha—
(Burmese text):
(၁) ယဇ်ပူဇော်မှုကို ပြီးစေခြင်း။ (၂) လေ။ ဖဂ္ဂဝ-လည်းကြည့်။ (၃) ကြမ်းတမ်း-ထက်မြက်-သော စကား။ (၄) ဖုတ်ဖုတ်-ဝုတ်ဝုတ်-ဟူသောအသံ (ခွေးဟောင်သံ)။ (၅) အကျိုးမဲ့၊ အကျိုးမရှိ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Concluding the offering. (2) Air. Look at the fog - it also watches. (3) Harsh and rude words. (4) Sounds that are whistling and hissing (like a dog's bark). (5) Useless, without benefit.
3) pha—
(Burmese text): (၁) ပ၏ ကာရိယ ဖ။ (၂) ဖာဓာတ်၏ ကာရိယဖ။
တိပိ၊၁၅၊၁
(Auto-Translation): (1) The nature of the soul. (2) The nature of the element of fire. Tibetan, 15, 1.
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.
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Starts with (+28): Padampa, Pha chi mi, pha dam pa sangs rgyas, Pha ni dza, Pha nong, Pha ong khra, pha rgyud, pha rol tu phyin pa drug, Pha toosp, Pha-doh, Pha-gol, Pha-khi-mon, Pha-khol, Pha-mahadeo, Pha-rai, Phaa laa, Phaakee, Phaalasaa, Phaaldu, Phaamshyi koong.
Full-text (+1084): Shapha, Phiya, Repha, Phati, Mukhashapha, Phatkarin, Rephas, Aikashapha, Gopphaka, Phakara, Dvishapha, Abdhikapha, Pham?B, Po, pha rol tu phyin pa drug, Ardhavisarga, Diem pha, Pha bo, Dam pha, Phase.
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