Saja, Sājā: 8 definitions

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Saja means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi, biology, Tamil. 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.

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Saja in India is the name of a plant defined with Terminalia alata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Pentaptera tomentosa Roxb. ex DC., nom. illeg., nom. superfl. (among others).

2) Saja is also identified with Terminalia crenulata It has the synonym Pentaptera crenulata (Roth) DC..

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Prodr. Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’ Orient. (1834)
· Prodr. (1828)
· Taxon (1979)
· Novae Plantarum Species praesertim Indiae Orientalis (1821)
· Cat. Ind. Pl. (1833)
· Prodr. (DC.) (1828)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

saja (सज).—m (Commonly sāja m) Apparatus, materials &c.

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sajā (सजा).—m Commonly sajjā.

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sajā (सजा).—f ( P) Punishment. v .

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sāja (साज).—m (sajja S through P) Apparatus, materials, necessaries; the requisites of a business or work as collected and disposed, or as viewed collectively or comprehensively. 2 By speciality or preëminence. The instruments and apparatus of a band of dancing-girls, of musicians or vocalists, of legend-narrators, players, jugglers &c. 3 The habiliments, trappings, whole accoutrement or equipment (of dancers, actors, or other performers, of soldiers &c.) 3 Accoutring, equipping, dressing up, fitting out and making ready. 4 Habiliments, attire, or dress generally as a characterizing equipment. 5 (By eminence--this being the main instrument of any company of performers.) The tabor called mṛdaṅga or pakhavāja.

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sāja (साज).—n C A kind of grass.

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

sajā (सजा).—f Punishment.

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sāja (साज).—m Apparatus. Equipping. The habiliments.

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sāja (साज).—n A kind of grass.

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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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Sāja (साज):—mfn. together with the lunar mansion Pūrva-bhadra-padā, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā]

[Sanskrit to German]

Saja 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.

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Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

1) Saja (सज) [Also spelled saj]:—(nf) adoration/adorning, ornamentation; —[dhaja/baja] prank; ornamentation.

2) Sajā (सजा):—(nf) punishment; penalty; -[e-mauta] capital punishment; ~[yāphtā] convicted, punished; —[kā majā milanā]to reap the harvest of one’s evil deeds.

3) Sāja (साज):—(nm) accoutrements, embellishment; appurtenance; see [sāja; -gṛha] green room; -[saṃvāra] upkeep, maintenance; —[sajānā] to organise a spectacle; to present in a particular manner.

4) (nm) a musical instrument; implement, equipment; harness; used as a suffix to mean —a mendor or manufacturer of (as [jīnasāja]); ~[gāra] favourable, suitable; -[bāja] intrigue, conspiracy; paraphernalia; -[saṃgīta] instrumental music; -[sāmāna] furnishings, appurtenance, equipment; necessaries; —[cheḍanā] to commence playing of a musical instrument; to prepare the ground for.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Saja (ಸಜ):—[noun] = ಸಜೆ [saje].

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Sajā (ಸಜಾ):—[noun] = ಸಜೆ [saje].

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Sāja (ಸಾಜ):—

1) [noun] produced or existing in nature; not artificial or manufactured; natural.

2) [noun] present since one’s birth; innate; not acquired; inborn.

3) [noun] really being what it is said to be or coming from the alleged source or origin; not counterfeit or artificial; real; true; authentic; genuine.

4) [noun] happening as a result of natural process, rather than an accident, violence, etc.; natural.

5) [noun] growing spontaneously, without being planted or tended by human hand, as vegetation.

6) [noun] having undergone little or no processing and containing no chemical additives; natural.

7) [noun] free from affectation or constraint; natural.

8) [noun] arising easily or spontaneously; natural.

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Sāja (ಸಾಜ):—

1) [noun] the quality of being natural; naturalness.

2) [noun] the true or actual state of a matter; truth.

3) [noun] the quality of being simple, not complicated.

4) [noun] an honest, straightforward man.

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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.

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Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Sajā (ஸஜா) noun < Persn. sazā. Punishment. See சஜா. [saja.]

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Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.

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