Hindi

Noun

क्रिया • ‎(kriyā) f ‎(Urdu spelling کریا)

1. (grammar) verb
2. doing, performance
3. action, act, deed
4. undertaking
5. business
6. use
7. work, labour; a literary work
8. medical treatment or practice
9. a religious act or ceremony, a pious act, a duty
10. obsequies
11. oath

Declension

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “क्रिया”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English Oxford. 1884.

Sanskrit

Etymology

From the root कृ ‎(kṛ, “to do, make”). Also Proto-Indo-Aryan *kriyāˊ.

Noun

क्रिया • ‎(kriyā) f

1. doing, performing, performance, occupation with (in compounds), business, act, action, undertaking, activity, work, labour
2. bodily action, exercise of the limbs
3. (grammar) action (as the general idea expressed by any verb), verb

   सकर्मक्रिया ‎(sakarma-kriyā) — "active" verb

   अकर्मक्रिया ‎(akarma-kriyā) — intransitive verb

4. noun of action
5. literary work
6. medical treatment or practice, applying a remedy, cure

   समक्रियत्व ‎(sama-kriya-tva) — ?

   विषमक्रिय ‎(viṣama-kriya) — undergoing unequal (medical) treatment

7. a religious rite or ceremony, sacrificial act, sacrifice
8. (with caramā), "the last ceremony", rites performed immediately after death, obsequies, purificatory rites (as ablution etc.)
9. religious action, worship
10. Religious Action (personified as a daughter of Daksha and wife of Dharma; or as a daughter of Kardama and wife of Kratu)
11. judicial investigation (by human means, as by witnesses, documents etc., or by superhuman means, as by various ordeals)
12. atonement
13. disquisition
14. study
15. means, expedient

Declension

Descendants

• English: Kriya, kriya
• Sinhalese: ක්‍රියාව ‎(k‍riyāva)
• Telugu: క్రియ ‎(kriya)
• Thai: กริยา ‎(grì-yaa)
• Marathi: क्रिया ‎(kriyā)

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0320
• Arthur A. Macdonell, A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, 1893, page 076
• Horace Hayman Wilson, A dictionary in Sanscrit and English, 2nd ed., Calcutta: Education Press, Circular Road, 1832, page 257
• Carl Capeller, A Sanskrit-English dictionary, based upon the St. Petersburg lexicons, London: Luzac & Co., 1891, page 137