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सहाय

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सहाय (sahāya).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /sə.ɦɑːj/, [sɐ.ɦäːj]

Noun

सहाय (sahāy) m or f by sense

  1. helper, rescuer, patron
  2. (only feminine) help, assistance, protection

Declension

NOTE: This term is declined masculine or feminine according to the gender of the referent.

More information singular, plural ...
More information singular, plural ...

References

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Marathi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सहाय (sahāya).

Pronunciation

Noun

सहाय (sahāy) m

  1. companion, adherent, follower
  2. assistant, helper

References

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Where is this definition pulled from? Is it perhaps a semantic extension of Etymology 2 (ghee or clarified butter is a major helper with flavor and texture)?”

Adjective

सहाय (sahā-ya)

  1. along with clarified butter
Declension
More information Masculine a-stem declension of सहाय, Nom. sg. ...
More information Feminine ā-stem declension of सहाय, Nom. sg. ...
More information Neuter a-stem declension of सहाय, Nom. sg. ...

Etymology 2

Probably from सह (saha, companion) + अय (aya, go) (compare सहायन (sahā-yana)). An alternate derivation from a Prakrit form of सखाय (sakhāya) (for which see सखि (sakhi, friend) for more) is less likely.

Noun

सहाय (sahā-ya) stem, m

  1. "one who goes along with (another)", a companion, follower, adherent, ally, assistant, helper in or to (locative or compound)
  2. (at the end of a compound) "having as a companion or assistant, accompanied or supported by"
  3. (ibc.) companionship, assistance
  4. name of Shiva
  5. ruddy goose
  6. a kind of drug or perfume
Declension
More information Masculine a-stem declension of सहाय, Nom. sg. ...
Descendants
  • Lü: ᦉᦠᦻ (ṡḣaay)
  • Malay: sahaya
  • Malay: saya
  • Old Javanese: sahāya
  • Thai: สหาย (sà-hǎai)

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “सहाय”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 1194/3, 1195/1.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 507-8
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