स्वस्तिक

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्वस्तिक (svastika, “a lucky or auspicious object”). By surface analysis, सु- (su-) +‎ अस्ति (asti) +‎ -क (-ka). Doublet of सथिया (sathiyā).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /sʋəs.t̪ɪk/, [sʋɐs.t̪ɪk]

स्वस्तिक • (svastik) m (Urdu spelling سوستک)

1. swastika
2. a lucky or auspicious object

From सु- (sú, “good, well”) + अस्ति (ásti-), a verbal abstract to the root of the verb "to be", svasti thus meaning "well-being" — and the diminutive suffix -क (-ka); hence "little thing associated with well-being", corresponding roughly to "lucky charm". The word first appears in the Classical Sanskrit (in the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ʋɐs̪.t̪i.kɐ/

स्वस्तिक • (svastika) stem, m

1. a kind of bard (who utters words of welcome or eulogy)
2. any lucky or auspicious object, especially a kind of mystical cross or mark made on persons and things to denote good luck; a swastika
3. the crossing of the arms or hands on the breast
4. a bandage in the form of a cross
5. a dish of a particular form
6. a kind of cake
7. a triangular crest-jewel
8. the meeting of four roads, a crossroad
9. a particular symbol made of ground rice and formed like a triangle (it is used in fumigating the image of durgā, and is said to symbolize the liṅga)
10. a kind of garlic
11. cock
12. libertine

स्वस्तिक • (svastika) stem, m or n

1. a mansion or temple of a particular form
2. European water-clover (Marsilea quadrifolia)
3. a particular mode of sitting practised by yogins (in which the toes are placed in the inner hollow of the knees)

स्वस्तिक • (svastika) m

1. name of a serpent-demon
2. name of one of Skanda's attendants
3. name of a Danava
4. name of a poet
5. name of another man

• → English: swastika
• → German: Swastika, Svastika
  • → Turkish: svastika
• → Hindi: स्वस्तिक (svastik)
• → Lithuanian: svãstika
• Pali: sotthika
• Prakrit: 𑀲𑀢𑁆𑀣𑀺𑀅 (satthia), 𑀲𑁄𑀢𑁆𑀣𑀺𑀅 (sŏtthia)
  • Gujarati: સાથિયો (sāthiyo)
  • Hindustani:
    • Hindi: सथिया (sathiyā)
    • Urdu: سَتھِیا (sathiyā)

• Monier Williams (1899) “स्वस्तिक”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1283.
• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “स्वस्तिक”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016