"tattva" meaning in English

See tattva in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: tattvas [plural]
Etymology: From Sanskrit तत्त्व (tattva, “truth; reality; principle etc.”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|sa|तत्त्व||truth; reality; principle etc.}} Sanskrit तत्त्व (tattva, “truth; reality; principle etc.”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} tattva (plural tattvas)
  1. (Indian philosophy) An element or aspect of reality conceived as an aspect of deity, forming the basis of human experience.

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sa",
        "3": "तत्त्व",
        "4": "",
        "5": "truth; reality; principle etc."
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit तत्त्व (tattva, “truth; reality; principle etc.”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Sanskrit तत्त्व (tattva, “truth; reality; principle etc.”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tattvas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tattva (plural tattvas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An element or aspect of reality conceived as an aspect of deity, forming the basis of human experience."
      ],
      "id": "en-tattva-en-noun-H7uyndcH",
      "links": [
        [
          "element",
          "element"
        ],
        [
          "aspect",
          "aspect"
        ],
        [
          "reality",
          "reality"
        ],
        [
          "deity",
          "deity"
        ],
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Indian philosophy",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Indian philosophy) An element or aspect of reality conceived as an aspect of deity, forming the basis of human experience."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tattva"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sa",
        "3": "तत्त्व",
        "4": "",
        "5": "truth; reality; principle etc."
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit तत्त्व (tattva, “truth; reality; principle etc.”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Sanskrit तत्त्व (tattva, “truth; reality; principle etc.”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tattvas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tattva (plural tattvas)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Sanskrit",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An element or aspect of reality conceived as an aspect of deity, forming the basis of human experience."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "element",
          "element"
        ],
        [
          "aspect",
          "aspect"
        ],
        [
          "reality",
          "reality"
        ],
        [
          "deity",
          "deity"
        ],
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Indian philosophy",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Indian philosophy) An element or aspect of reality conceived as an aspect of deity, forming the basis of human experience."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tattva"
}

Download raw JSONL data for tattva meaning in English (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.