Raha, Rāha, Rāhaa: 16 definitions
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Raha means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, 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
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Rāha (राह).—A clan belonging to Rohita Prajāpati.*
- * Vāyu-purāṇa 100. 61.
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.
In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Raha (रह) refers to a “secret”, according to the Guru-maṇḍala-arcana [i.e., “Guru Mandala Worship]” ritual often performed in combination with the Cakrasaṃvara Samādhi, which refers to the primary pūjā and sādhanā practice of Newah Mahāyāna-Vajrayāna Buddhists in Nepal.—Accordingly, “The letter E shape, abode of strong essence, the womb space of the lotus, Therein the midst, a secret Vaṃ [e.g., vaṃrahaṃ], a beautiful bowl, the origin of all one’s self, An abode of perfectly pure awakened omniscience, beautiful divine power, And I, innately pure, praise the highest pleasure, the innate heroic couple”.
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
rahā (रहा).—f ( P) Way, manner, method, fashion, course.
rahā (रहा).—f Way, manner fashion.
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
Raha (रह).—m.
(-haḥ) Solitariness, privacy. E. rah to be private, ac aff.
Raha (रह).—(°—) = rahas.
Raha (रह):—[from rah] m. = rahas2 [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Raha (रह):—(haḥ) 1. m. Solitariness; privacy.
Raha (रह):—m. = rahas Comm. zu [Amarakoṣa 2, 8, 1, 22.] raharūḍhabhāvāḥ im Geheimen [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 10, 55, 40.]
Raha (रह):—(*m.) = ^2. rahas. Am Anfange eines Comp. so v.a. im Geheimen [Bhāgavatapurāṇa]
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
1) Raha (रह):——an allomorph of [rāha] used in several compound words; ~[gujara] a highway; ~[jana] a highwayman, brigand; ~[janī] waylaying, brigandage; ~[numā] a guide; ~[numāī] guidance; ~[bara] a guide; ~[barī] guidance.
2) Rahā (रहा):—(a) past tense of '[rahanā]'; -[sahā] remaining, residual, left over.
3) Rāha (राह) [Also spelled rah]:—(nf) a way, path; route, course; passage; -[kharca] travel expences; ~[gīra] a traveller; wayfarer; pedestrian; ~[dārī] a passport; octroi, toll; —[calatā] wayfaring; a stranger; hence •[ādamī; -cāha] manners, ways; -[jana] a highwayman; brigand; -[janī] waylaying; brigandage; —[dekhanā, apanī] to mind one’s own business, to go one’s way; ~[bara] a guide; ~[barī] guidance; —[rasma/rīti] mutual relations, give and take; contacts; —[meṃ, khudā kī] in the name of God, for God's sake; —[tākanā/dekhanā] to wait, to keep waiting (for); —[para lānā] to bring round; to win over; —[pūchanā] to seek information regarding the way; to seek guidance; —[laganā] to go one’s way; to mind one’s own business; see also [rāstā].
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Prakrit-English dictionary
1) Raha (रह) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Rah.
2) Raha (रह) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Rabhasa.
3) Raha (रह) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Rahas.
4) Raha (रह) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Ratha.
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
Raha (ರಹ):—
1) [noun] a lonely or deserted or a private place.
2) [noun] the state or fact of being lonely; lonliness.
3) [noun] something that is known by a single person or very few people and which is kept deliberately from others knowledge; a secret.
4) [noun] a secret meeting.
5) [noun] the feeling of suprrise; wonder.
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Raha (ರಹ):—
1) [noun] that by which something is done or obtained; a means.
2) [noun] a road; a way.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
1) Raha (रह):—n. → दह [daha]
2) Rāha (राह):—n. 1. way; road; path; street; course; 2. the amount or tax used in making road at the time of need;
3) Rāhā (राहा):—n. opinion; counsel;
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) raha (ရဟ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[raha(raho)+gata．kye．]
[ရဟ(ရဟော)+ဂတ။ နောက်ပုဒ်ကျေသည်။]
2) raha (ရဟ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[raha+a．ramu+a．vivittamarahatiti raho,rahacāge,ramante asminti vā raho,vaṇṇavikāro．．ṭī．353．vijanavācaka rahasaddā mano ．rū97．nīti,pada．133．nirutti．nhā-79．¤ raha-saddā ni．,2．144-a pañcikā．ra-saṃ．]
[ရဟ+အ။ ရမု+အ။ ဝိဝိတ္တမရဟတိတိ ရဟော၊ ရဟစာဂေ၊ ရမန္တေ အသ္မိန္တိ ဝါ ရဟော၊ ဝဏ္ဏဝိကာရော။ ဓာန်။ဋီ။၃၅၃။ ဝိဇနဝါစက ရဟသဒ္ဒါ မနောဂိုဏ်း ဖြစ်သည်။ ရူ၉၇။နီတိ၊ပဒ။၁၃၃။ နိရုတ္တိ။နှာ-၇၉။ ၎င်း ရဟ-သဒ္ဒါ နိပါတ်ပုဒ်ဖြစ်သည်။ မောဂ်၊၂။၁၄၄-အဖွင့် ပဉ္စိကာ။ ရဟသ်-သံ။]
3) raha (ရဟ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[raha+a．rahi+a．raha cāge．rahati．raho．rahi gatiyaṃ．rahati,raho．rahaṃ．nīti,dhātu．195．pāpadhammavācaka rahasaddā rājādi ．nīti,pada．217．nīti,sutta．39va．akārantapu．nirutti．nhā-1vava．(pu,na) ra-saṃ．raha(pu,na)-prā,addhamāgadhī]
[ရဟ+အ။ ရဟိ+အ။ ရဟ စာဂေ။ ရဟတိ။ ရဟော။ ရဟိ ဂတိယံ။ ရဟတိ၊ ရဟော။ ရဟံ။ နီတိ၊ဓာတု။၁၉၅။ ပါပဓမ္မဝါစက ရဟသဒ္ဒါ ရာဇာဒိ ဂိုဏ်းဖြစ်သည်။ နီတိ၊ပဒ။၂၁၇။ နီတိ၊သုတ္တ။၃၉ဝ။ အကာရန္တပုလ္လိင်ဖြစ်သည်။ နိရုတ္တိ။နှာ-၁ဝဝ။ (ပု၊န) ရဟသ်-သံ။ ရဟ(ပု၊န)-ပြာ၊ အဒ္ဓမာဂဓီ]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) raha—
(Burmese text): (၁) စွန့်-ပယ်-အကြွင်းမဲ့ဖြတ်-အပ်သော၊ (အကုသိုလ်တရား)။ (၂) စွန့်ပယ်-တတ်သော၊ သူ။ (၃) စွန့်-ပယ်-အပ်သည်၏အဖြစ်။ (၄) (ဂတိတို့၌) သွား-တစ်ဖန်ဖြစ်-ခြင်း။
(Auto-Translation): (1) The act of discarding without exception, (ultimate reality). (2) One who is able to discard. (3) The state of having discarded. (4) (In terms of identity) becoming once again.
2) raha—
(Burmese text): (၁) ဆိတ်ကွယ်ရာ၊ ဆိတ်ငြိမ်ရာ၊ နား မျက်စိတို့၏ ဆိတ်ကွယ်ရာ၊ ဆိတ်ကွယ်-ဆိတ်ငြိမ်-ရာအရပ်။ (၂) ဖုံးလွှမ်းရာဖြစ်သော (အရပ်)။ (၃) ဖုံးလွှမ်းသော၊ သူ။ (၄) ဆိတ်ကွယ်ခြင်း။ (၅) မျက်ကွယ်၌ဖြစ်ခြင်း။ (၆) ဖုံးလွှမ်း-လျှို့ဝှက်-အပ်သော (အကျင့်သီလ)။ (၇) မျက်ကွယ်။ (၈) ရဟောနိသဇ္ဇ သိက္ခာပုဒ်။ (၉) (ဆိတ်ကွယ်ရာ၌ (နေသော) ဘိက္ခုနီရဟော နိသဇ္ဇသိက္ခာပုဒ်။ (၁ဝ) မာတုဂါမရဟော နိသဇ္ဇသိက္ခာပုဒ်။ (၁၁) ရဟောသညကတ္ထေရ အပဒါန်။ (န) (၁၂) ခါတွက်ခြင်း။ (၁၃) လျှို့ဝှက်ခြင်း။ (ရဟသ်) (န) (၁) ဆိတ်ကွယ်ရာ။ (၂) လုံခြုံရာ။ (၃) သင့်လျော် မှန်ကန်သည်၏အဖြစ်။ (၄) မွေ့လျော်ခြင်း (ထောမ)။ (၁) ဆိတ်ကွယ်ရာ။ (၂) လျှို့ဝှက်ရာဌာနအထူး။ (၃) မိန်းမတို့၏ (မေထုန်မှု)။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) The place of concealment, the place of silence, the place of ears and eyes, a place of concealment-silence. (2) The place that is enveloped. (3) The one who envelops. (4) The act of concealment. (5) To be in concealment. (6) Enveloped-secret behavior. (7) Concealment. (8) The noble qualities of the Rahu being. (9) The qualities of the red Rahu that is (in concealment). (10) The qualities of the Marutaga Rahu. (11) The destruction of the Rahu being. (12) Calculation. (13) Secrecy. (1) The place of concealment. (2) The place of safety. (3) The proper and correct state. (4) Drowsiness. (1) The place of concealment. (2) The special secret department. (3) The downfall of women. Please refer to the original.
3) raha—
(Burmese text): ဆိတ်ကွယ်-ဆိတ်ငြိမ်-ရာအရပ်သို့ ချဉ်းကပ်သော၊ သူ။
(Auto-Translation): The sheep quietly approaches the edge of the pasture.
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 (+14): Rahaab, Rahaante, Rahaanto, Rahaba, Rahabhava, Rahabhavasamanna, Rahada, Rahada Sutta, Rahadadinava, Rahadani, Rahadari, Rahadariciti, Rahadaricitu, Rahadi, Rahadia-simi, Rahadiya-simi, Rahadri, Rahadupama, Rahagallaka, Rahah.
Full-text (+218): Viraha, Ratha, Rahu, Rahas, Virahita, Rahati, Rahahstha, Raho, Rahasu, Rahassa, Rahadari, Virahati, Rahi, Rahabhava, Arahas, Rahasya, Rah, Rahahshila, Rahahshuci, Rahaseyyaka.
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