उपनिषद्
Sanskrit
noun
Definitions
- sitting at the foot of a teacher to receive knowledge
- esoteric cosmology
- esoteric doctrine, secret knowledge, mystical meaning, mystical words (, , etc.)
- a class of Hindu religious texts in which doctrines of sacred knowledge are expounded
Etymology
Prefix from Sanskrit नि (down, into).
Origin
Sanskrit
नि
Gloss
down, into
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
下
Emoji
🌧️ 👇️ 👎️ 📉
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Upanishad English
- Upanishadic English
- उपन्यस्यति Sanskrit
- नि Sanskrit
- संनिरुणद्धि Sanskrit
- उपनिषद् Hindi
- اپنکهت Persian
- *ní Proto-Indo-Aryan