సంస్కారము

Telugu

Alternative forms

సంస్కారం (saṁskāraṁ)

Etymology

From Sanskrit संस्कार (saṃskāra) +‎ -ము (-mu).

Noun

సంస్కారము • (saṁskāramu? (plural సంస్కారములు)

  1. forming well, making perfect, perfecting, completing, finishing, polishing, refining, reforming
  2. cooking, dressing (food)
  3. preparing (as in tanning or hardening skins)
  4. refinement, perfection, education, accomplishment
  5. forming in mind, conception, idea, notion
  6. impression, form
  7. mould
  8. impression on the mind or memory
  9. the power of memory, faculty of recollection, self-reproductive quality, association
  10. any faculty, capacity, instinct
  11. making sacred, hallowing, consecration
  12. purification, purity
  13. any sanctifying or purificatory rite enjoined on the first three castes, a sacrament
  14. burning on the funeral pyre, cremation