ahimsa
/əˈhɪmsɑː/
ahimsa noun: a doctrine of non-violence, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them.
Noun
ahimsa (uncountable)
- A doctrine of non-violence, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them.
- Already, at this very early date, the ritualists were moving towards the ideal of ahimsa ("harmlessness") that would become the indispensable virtue of the Indian Axial Age.2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books, published 2007, page 79
- This, in essence, is the Jain doctrine of ahimsa – a direct inversion of Vedic beliefs about the sustaining powers of animal sacrifice.2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 9
ahimsa meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu
ahimsa in Hindi
- ahimsa
- अहिंसा ahinsā
ahimsa in Tamil
- doctrine of non-violence in Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism
- அகிம்சை akimcai
ahimsa in Marathi
- doctrine of non-violence in Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism
- अहिंसा ahiusā
ahimsa in Telugu
- doctrine of non-violence in Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism
- అహింస ahiṁsa
More languagesFewer languages
- ahimsa in Punjabi
- ਅਹਿੰਸਾ ahinsā
- ahimsa in Gujarati
- અહિંસા ahinsā
- ahimsa in Malay
- ahimsa
- ahimsa in Indonesian
- ahimsa
- ahimsa in Thai
- อหิงสา
Forms of ahimsa
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Origin of ahimsa
Borrowed from Sanskrit अहिंसा (ahiṃsā).
Words formed from ahimsa
Phrases with ahimsa
Questions about ahimsa
- What does ahimsa mean?
- Ahimsa means a doctrine of non-violence, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them.
- What is ahimsa in Hindi?
- Ahimsa in Hindi is अहिंसा (ahinsā). See Ahimsa meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ahimsa?
- Ahimsa is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ahimsa?
- Ahimsa is pronounced /əˈhɪmsɑː/.
Words near ahimsa in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ahimsa (page history and authors); अहिंसा (Hindi) (page history and authors); ਅਹਿੰਸਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); અહિંસા (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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