war meaning in Sanskrit
युद्धम् yuddham
/wɔː//wɔɹ/
war in Sanskrit: युद्धम् (yuddham), संग्राम (saṃgrāma), युध्यते (yudhyate). In English, war means organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
Sanskrit words for war
- conflict involving organized use of arms
- युद्धम् yuddham, संग्राम saṃgrāma
- to engage in conflict
- युध्यते yudhyate
English meaning of war
- noun Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
- noun A particular conflict of this kind.
- noun Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
- noun Protracted state or state-sponsored political violence against dissidents.
war in a sentence
- holy war; just war; civil war
- a war of succession... a war of attrition... the Cold War... World War III...
- the Great Emu War... the Global War on Terrorism...
Synonyms of war
war in other languages
- war in Hindi
- war in Tamil
- war in Marathi
- war in Urdu
- war in Bengali
- war in Telugu
- war in Malayalam
- war in Kannada
- war in Punjabi
- war in Gujarati
- war in Odia
- war in Sinhala
- war in Assamese
- war in Nepali
- war in Pashto
- war in Tagalog
- war in Arabic
- war in Malay
- war in Indonesian
- war in Persian
- war in Thai
- war in Vietnamese
- war in Myanmar
Questions about war in Sanskrit
- What is the meaning of war in Sanskrit?
- War in Sanskrit is युद्धम् (yuddham), संग्राम (saṃgrāma), युध्यते (yudhyate).
- war इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
- War: युद्धम् (yuddham), संग्राम (saṃgrāma), युध्यते (yudhyate).
- What does war mean in English?
- War means organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: war (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.
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