प्रकृति

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रकृति (prakṛti, “nature, origin”).

प्रकृति • (prakŕti) f

1. nature

• संस्कृति (sanskŕti, “culture”)

• प्राकृतिक (prākŕtik, “natural”)
• प्राकृत (prākŕt, “a Prakrit”)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “प्रकृति”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “प्रकृति”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.

• IPA^(key): [prʌkɾit̪i]
• Phonetic Devanagari: प्रक्रिति

प्रकृति • (prakr̥ti)

1. nature

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɾɐ.kr̩.ti/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾɐ.kr̩.t̪i/

प्रकृति • (prakṛti) stem, m

1. nature (प्र + कृ + -क्त), (literally meaning "as created/done", hence the "nature")

• → Bengali: প্রকৃতি (prokriti)
• → Hindi: प्रकृति (prakŕti)
• → Kannada: ಪ್ರಕೃತಿ (prakṛti)
• → Malayalam: പ്രകൃതി (prakr̥ti)
• → Tamil: பிரகிருதி (pirakiruti)
• → Telugu: ప్రకృతి (prakr̥ti)

प्रकृति • (prakṛti) stem, f

1. the original or natural form or condition of anything, original or primary substance (opposite to वि-कृति q.v.)
2. cause original source
3. origin, extraction
4. nature, character, constitution, temper, disposition
5. fundamental form, pattern, standard, model, rule (especially in ritual)
6. (philosophy) the original producer of (or rather passive power of creating) the material world (consisting of 3 constituent essences or गुणs called सत्त्व, रजस्, and तमस्), Nature (distinguished from पुरुष, Spirit as माया is distinguished from ब्रह्मन् in the वेदान्तs)
7. (plural) the 8 producers or primary essences which evolve the whole visible world (namely अ-व्यक्त, बुद्धि or महत्, अहं-कार, and the 5 तन्-मात्रस् or subtle elements; rarely the 5 elements alone)
8. (Hinduism) a goddess, the personified will of the Supreme in the creation (hence the same with the शक्ति or personified energy or wife of a deity, as लक्ष्मी, दुर्गा etc.; also considered as identical with the Supreme Being)
9. (in the plural) name of a class of deities under मनु रैभ्य Hariv.
10. (politics, in the plural) a king's ministers, the body of ministers or counsellors, ministry
11. the subjects of a king, citizens, artisans
12. the constituent elements or powers of the state (of which are usually enumerated, namely king minister, allies, treasure, army, territory, fortresses)
13. the various sovereigns to be considered in case of war (namely the मध्यम, विजिगीषु, उदासीन, and शत्रु; to which should be added 8 remoter princes, namely the मित्र, अरिमित्र, मित्र-मित्र, अरिमित्र-मित्र, पार्ष्णि-ग्रह, आक्रन्द, पार्ष्णिग्राहासार, आक्रन्दासास; each of these 12 kings has 5 प्रकृतिs in the form of minister, territory, fortresses, treasure, and army, so that the total number of प्रकृतिs may be 72) Mn. vii. 155, 157. Kull.
14. (grammar) the crude or elementary form of a word, base, root, an uninflected word
15. name of 2 classes of metres
16. (arithmetic) a co-efficient multiplier
17. temperament, the predominance of one of the humours at the time of generation
18. (with त्रितीया) the third nature, a eunuch
19. matter, affair
20. the male or female organ of generation L.
21. a woman or womankind
22. a mother
23. an animal
24. name of a woman

• Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 2nd Ed. 1899
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “प्रकृति”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan