English
Etymology
From Sanskrit अशोक (aśoka, literally “without grief”). Doublet of Ashok and Asoka.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ashoka
- (historical) An ancient Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE.
- Synonym: Asoka
- (Hinduism) The charioteer of Bhima in the epic Mahabharata.
Derived terms
- Ashoka Chakra
- Ashokan
- pillar of Ashoka
Translations
emperor
- Arabic: أَشُوكَا m (ʔašūkā)
- Armenian: Աշոկա (Ašoka)
- Assamese: অশোক (oxük)
- Bengali: অশোক (bn) (ośōk)
- Bihari: अशोक (aśōk)
- Bishnupriya Manipuri: অশোক (aśōk)
- Burmese: အသောကမင်း (a.sau:ka.mang:), အသောက (a.sau:ka.)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 阿育王 (zh) (Āyùwáng), 阿輸柯 / 阿输柯 (Āshūkē), 阿輸迦 / 阿输迦 (Āshūjiā)
- Czech: Ašóka m
- Danish: Ashoka c
- Dutch: Asoka m
- Estonian: Ašoka
- Finnish: Ašoka, Asoka
- French: Ashoka m
- Georgian: აშოკა (ašoḳa)
- German: Ashoka m
- Greek: Ασόκα (el) m (Asóka)
- Ancient: Πιοδᾱ́σσης (grc) m (Piodā́ssēs)
- Gujarati: અશોક (aśok)
- Hebrew: אשוקה m (ašoka)
- Hindi: अशोक (hi) m (aśok)
- Hungarian: Asóka
- Icelandic: Ashoka
- Indonesian: Asoka
- Irish: Ashoka m
- Japanese: アショーカ (Ashōka), 阿育王 (あいくおう, Aiku-ō)
- Kannada: ಅಶೋಕ (kn) (aśōka)
- Kashmiri: اَشوک (aśōk)
- Khmer: អសោក (km) (a’saok)
- Korean: 아소카 (Asoka), 아육왕 (Ayugwang)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Lü: ᦀᦷᦉᧅᧈ (˙ʼṡok¹)
- Macedonian: Ашока (Ašoka)
- Maithili: अशोक (aśōk)
- Malayalam: അശോകചക്രവർത്തി (aśōkacakravaṟtti)
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Marathi: अशोक (aśok)
- Nepali: अशोक (ne) (aśok)
- Newar: अशोक (aśoka)
- Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Odia: ଅଶୋକ (aśoka)
- Persian: آشوکا (âšôkâ)
- Polish: Aśoka m
- Portuguese: Asoka m, Ashoka m
- Prakrit:
- Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀅𑀲𑁄𑀓 (asoka)
- Punjabi: ਅਸ਼ੋਕ (pa) (aśok)
- Russian: Ашо́ка m (Ašóka)
- Sanskrit: अशोक (sa) m (aśoka)
- Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
- Serbo-Croatian: Ашока (Ašoka)
- Sindhi: اشوڪا (aśōka)
- Sinhalese: අශෝක (aśōka)
- Spanish: Aśoka m
- Tagalog: Ashoka
- Tamil: அசோகர் (acōkar)
- Telugu: అశోకుడు (te) (aśōkuḍu)
- Thai: อโศก (th) (à-sòok)
- Tibetan: མྱ་ངན་མེད (mya ngan med)
- Turkish: Asoka
- Ukrainian: Ашо́ка m (Ašóka)
- Urdu: اشوک m (aśok)
- Uyghur: ئاسوكا (asoka)
- Vietnamese: A-dục, A-dục vương
- Welsh: Asoka
- Western Panjabi: اشوک (aśōk)
- Zhuang: Ayuzvuengz
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charioteer
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: Ašoka
- Marathi: अशोक m (aśok)
- Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
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References
- Puranic Encyclopedia: a comprehensive dictionary with special reference to the epic and Puranic literature, Vettam Mani, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1975, p. 59.