Definitions for ahimsa

ahimsa a·him·sa

Spelling: [uh-him-sah, uh-hing-]
IPA: /əˈhɪm sɑ, əˈhɪŋ-/

Ahimsa is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in ahimsa (aahims).

Definitions for ahimsa

noun

  1. the principle of noninjury to living beings.

Origin of ahimsa

1870-75; Sanskrit, equivalent to a- not, without (cognate with a-6) + hiṁsā injury, akin to hánti (he) slays, Greek phónos murder

Examples for ahimsa

It is not written that a follower of the religion of ahimsa (non-killing) may kill a fellow-man.

A man cannot then practice ahimsa and be a coward at the same time.

He hated no one, for that would be a negation of the great principle of ahimsa, on which he expatiated with immense earnestness.

In its positive form, ahimsa means the largest love, the greatest charity.

ahimsa truly understood is in my humble opinion a panacea for all evils mundane and extra-mundane.

ahimsa requires deliberate self-suffering, not a deliberate injuring of the supposed wrong-doer.

By birth I am a Vaishnavite, and was taught ahimsa in my childhood.

But Mr. Gandhi, with all his visionary idealism, was letting loose dangerous forces which recked naught of ahimsa.

The Wardha mosquitoes don't know a thing about ahimsa, 44-6 Swamiji!

It is firmly based on the Hindu idea of ahimsa, and hence avoids physical violence.

Word Value for ahimsa
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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