poor meaning in Sanskrit
दीन dīna
/pʊɚ/
More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations
archaic/pʊə/
poor in Sanskrit: दीन (dīna), ध्रिगु (dhrigu). In English, poor means with no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
Sanskrit words for poor
- with few or no possessions or money
- दीन dīna, ध्रिगु dhrigu
English meaning of poor
- adjective With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
- adjective Of low quality.
- adjective Worthy of pity.
- adjective Deficient in a specified way.
poor in a sentence
- We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.
- That was a poor performance.
- Oh, you poor thing, you're drenched!
Synonyms of poor
poor in other languages
- poor in Hindi
- poor in Tamil
- poor in Marathi
- poor in Urdu
- poor in Bengali
- poor in Telugu
- poor in Malayalam
- poor in Kannada
- poor in Punjabi
- poor in Gujarati
- poor in Odia
- poor in Sinhala
- poor in Assamese
- poor in Pashto
- poor in Tagalog
- poor in Arabic
- poor in Malay
- poor in Indonesian
- poor in Persian
- poor in Thai
- poor in Vietnamese
- poor in Myanmar
Questions about poor in Sanskrit
- What is the meaning of poor in Sanskrit?
- Poor in Sanskrit is दीन (dīna), ध्रिगु (dhrigu).
- poor इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
- Poor: दीन (dīna), ध्रिगु (dhrigu).
- What does poor mean in English?
- Poor means with no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: poor (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-poor.ogg, en-uk-poor.ogg.
Cite this page: “poor meaning in Sanskrit.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sanskrit/poor. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.