विधा

Borrowed from Sanskrit विधा (vidhā).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʋɪ.d̪ʱɑː/, [ʋɪ.d̪ʱäː]

विधा • (vidhā) f (Urdu spelling ودھا)

1. skill acquired through training
2. labor

• कार्य (kārya), काम (kām)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “विधा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 922

Compound of वि- (vi-, “apart”) +‎ धा (dhā, “to place”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋi.dʱɑː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ʋi.d̪ʱɑː/

विधा • (vidhā)

1. to distribute, apportion, grant, bestow
2. to furnish, supply, procure
3. to spread, diffuse
4. to put in order, arrange, dispose, prepare, make ready
5. to divide, parcel out
6. to ordain, direct, enjoin, settle, appoint
7. to form, create, build, establish, found
8. to perform, effect, produce, cause, occasion, make, do
9. to make, render
10. to contrive or manage that
11. to put or lay on or in, direct towards
12. to send out, despatch (spies)
13. to take trouble with
14. to treat, deal with
15. to be allotted or intended for
16. to be accounted, pass for

विधा • (vidhā) stem, f

1. division, part, portion
2. form, manner, kind, sort
3. fodder
4. increase
5. wages, hire
6. pronunciation

• Monier Williams (1899) “विधा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 967/2-3.