अभिषेक

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अभिषेक (abhiṣeká).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ə.bʱɪ.ʂeːk/, [ɐ.bʱɪ.ʃeːk]

अभिषेक • (abhiṣek) m (Urdu spelling اَبِھشیک)

1. sprinkling, anointing (especially with sacred water)
2. inauguration, consecration, investiture

   Synonym: उद्घाटन (udghāṭan)

3. (Hinduism) the ceremonial bathing of an idol; offering made in connection with bathing an idol

अभिषेक • (abhiṣek) m

1. a male given name, Abhishek, from Sanskrit

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “अभिषेक”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884) “अभिषेक”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “अभिषेक”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अभिषेक (abhiṣeká).

• IPA^(key): /ə.bʱi.ʂek/

अभिषेक • (abhiṣek) m

1. abhisheka

• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “अभिषेक”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Berntsen, Maxine, “अभिषेक”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1982-1983.
• दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण [Date, Yashwant Ramkrishna] (1932-1950) “अभिषेक”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे [Pune]: महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ).

• IPA^(key): [ʌbisek]
• Phonetic Devanagari: अबिसेक्

अभिषेक • (abhiṣek)

1. Alternative spelling of अभिषेक् (abhiṣek)

अभिषेक • (abhiṣek) m

1. Alternative spelling of अभिषेक् (abhiṣek)

• “अभिषेक”, in नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश (nepālī br̥hat śabdakoś) [Comprehensive Nepali Dictionary]‎, Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2018

From अभि- (abhi-) +‎ सेक (séka).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ.bʱi.ʂɐj.kɐ́/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɐ.bʱiˈʂeː.kɐ/

अभिषेक • (abhiṣeká) stem, m

1. anointing, inaugurating or consecrating (by sprinkling water); inauguration of a king, royal unction
2. the water or liquid used at an inauguration
3. (Hinduism) abhisheka (the ceremonial bathing of an idol)

• Pali: abhiseka
  • → Burmese: ဘိသိက် (bhi.sik) (learned)
• Prakrit: 𑀅𑀪𑀺𑀲𑁂𑀅 (abhisea)

• Bengali: অভিষেক (obhiśek)
• English: abhisheka
• Hindustani: abhiṣek

  Hindi: अभिषेक

  Urdu: اَبِھشیک (abhiśek)

• Marathi: अभिषेक (abhiṣek)
• Nepali: अभिषेक् (abhiṣek)
• Old Khmer: ʼabhiṣeka, ʼabbhiseka
  • → Thai: อภิเษก (à-pí-sèek)
• Tamil: அபிஷேகம் (apiṣēkam)

• Monier Williams (1899) “Abhi-sheká”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 71, column 1.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “अभिषेक”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “abhiṣēká”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press