सावधान

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सावधान (sāvadhāna). Cognate with Bengali সাবধান (śabdhan), Assamese সাৱধান (xawodhan), Gujarati સાવધાન (sāvdhān), Marathi सावध (sāvadh)

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /sɑːʋ.d̪ʱɑːn/, [säːʋ.d̪ʱä̃ːn]

सावधान • (sāvdhān) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling ساودھان)

1. careful
2. wary
3. alert, cautious
4. aware, mindful, attentive
5. safe, prudent, circumspect

सावधान • (sāvdhān) (Urdu spelling ساودھان)

1. caution!

   Synonyms: ख़बरदार (xabardār), चौकस (caukas)

2. take care!

• सावधान रहना (sāvdhān rahnā)

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

From स- (sa-, “with”) +‎ अवधान (avadhāna, “attention”). The latter word itself faced semantic expansion, originally meaning "placing down or away", and is composed of अव- (ava-, “away, down”) +‎ धा (dhā, “to put, place”, root) +‎ -अन (-ana).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sɑː.ʋɐ.dʱɑː.nɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪ɑː.ʋɐ.d̪ʱɑː.n̪ɐ/

सावधान • (sāvadhāna)

1. careful
2. cautious
3. attentive
4. heedful, mindful
5. with an attentive mind
6. intent upon doing anything

• Bengali: সাবধান (śabodhan)
• Gujarati: સાવધાન (sāvdhān)
• Hindi: सावधान (sāvdhān)
• Marathi: सावध (sāvadh)
• Urdu: ساودھان (sāvdhān)

• Monier Williams (1899) “सावधान”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1211/1.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “सावधान”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan