Hindi

Noun

प्रसाद • ‎(prasād) m

1. (Hinduism, Sikhism) a type of food that is served as a religious offering in both Hinduism and Sikhism

Sanskrit

Etymology

From प्रसद् ‎(prasad, “to fall into the power of.”)

Noun

प्रसाद • ‎(pra-sāda) m

1. clearness, brightness, pellucidness, purity

   अम्बुप्रसाद ‎(ambu-prasāda) — the clearing nut tree, Strychnos potatorum

   प्र्सादति ‎(prsādati) — to be clear or bright

2. clearness of style, perspicuity
3. brightness (of the face)
4. calmness, tranquillity, absence of excitement
5. serenity of disposition, good humour
6. graciousness, kindness, kind behaviour, favour, aid, mediation

   प्रसादात् ‎(prasādāt) — through the kindness or by the favour of

   prasādaṃ √kṛ — to be gracious

   दुष्प्रसाद ‎(duṣ-prasāda) — difficult to be propitiated

7. Kindness personified as a son of Dharma and Maitrī
8. clarified liquor, a decoction
9. settlings, a residuum
10. free gift, gratuity
11. a propitiatory offering or gift (of food = प्रसादद्रव्य ‎(prasāda-dravya), प्रसादान्न ‎(prasādā-nna))
12. the food presented to an idol, or the remnants of food left by a spiritual teacher (which any one may freely appropriate to his own use)
13. approbation
14. well-being, welfare
15. name of a commentator on the prakriyā-kaumudī

Declension

Descendants

• Telugu: ప్రసాదము ‎(prasādamu)
• Thai: ประสาท ‎(bprà-sàat) (prasad)

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 0696