Hindi

Noun

मुद्रा • ‎(mudrā) f

1. a seal
2. a stamp
3. any currency or coin; money
   • 1998, Rajwant Rao Pradeep Kumar Rao, Pracheen Bharatiya Mudrayen [Ancient Indian Money], Motilal Banarsidass Publishe (ISBN 9788120823730), page 26

     भारतीय मुद्रा के अध्ययन के साथ ही यह जिज्ञासा भी उत्यित हुई कि भारत में मुद्रा का उदभव किस प्रकार सम्भव हुआ ।‎

     bhārtīya mudrā ke adhyayan ke sāth hī yah jijñāsā bhī utyit huī ki bhārat mẽ mudrā kā udbhav kis prakār sambhav huā .

     with the study of Indian currency this curiosity has also arisen of by which means has money been developed in India...

4. expression, face, appearance
5. the name of specific finger positions

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Sanskrit

Etymology

From मुद्र ‎(mudrá, “joyous, glad”).

Pronunciation

Noun

मुद्रा • ‎(mudrā́) f

1. a seal or any instrument used for sealing or stamping, a seal-ring, signet-ring, any ring
2. type for printing or instrument for lithographing
3. any stamp or print or mark or impression
   1. the stamp or impression made by a seal etc.
4. a stamped coin, piece of money, rupee, cash, medal
5. an image, sign, badge, token (especially a token or mark of divine attributes impressed upon the body)
6. authorization, a pass, passport (as given by a seal)
7. shutting, closing (as of the eyes or lips)
8. lock, stopper, bung
9. mystery
10. name of particular positions or intertwinings of the fingers (24 in number, commonly practiced in religious worship, and supposed to possess an occult meaning and magical efficacy)
11. a particular branch of education ("reckoning by the fingers")
12. parched or fried grain
13. (rhetoric) the natural expression of things by words, calling things by their right names
14. (music) a dance accordant with tradition

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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 822