शतधा

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit शतधा (śatadhā).

Pronunciation

Adverb

शतधा • (śatdhā)

  1. into a hundred parts or pieces
    मेरा हृदय शतधा छिन्न हो गया।
    merā hŕday śatdhā chinn ho gayā.
    My heart shattered into a hundred pieces.
  2. in a hundred ways
  3. hundredfold

References

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Sanskrit numbers (edit)
१००
100
1,000  →  100,000  → 
10
    Cardinal: शत (śata)
    Ordinal: शततम (śatatama)
    Multiplier: शतधा (śatadhā)
    Distributive: शतशस् (śataśas)

Etymology

From शत (śatá) +‎ -धा (-dhā́).

Pronunciation

Adverb

श॒त॒धा • (śatadhā́)

  1. in a hundred ways
  2. a hundredfold
  3. into a hundred parts or pieces

Descendants

  • Hindi: शतधा (śatdhā)

References

  • Monier Williams (1899), “शतधा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1049, column 2.
  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2026), “śatadhā”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.