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  2. Compassion - Wikipedia

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    Compassion is thus related in origin, form and meaning to the English noun patient (= one who suffers), from patiens, present participle of the same patior, and is akin to the Greek verb πάσχειν (paskhein, to suffer) and to its cognate noun πάθος (= pathos). [4]

  3. Empathy - Wikipedia

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    Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another person's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience. [1] [2] [3] There are more (sometimes conflicting) definitions of empathy that include but are not limited to social, cognitive, and emotional processes primarily concerned with understanding others.

  4. Karuṇā - Wikipedia

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    The word comes from the Sanskrit kara, meaning “to do” or “to make,” [3] indicating an action-based form of compassion, rather than the pity or sadness associated with the English word. In Hindu mythology, the concept of "Karuṇā" or compassionate action is deeply embedded and is often illustrated through stories, characters, and ...

  5. Daya (virtue) - Wikipedia

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    Daya (Sanskrit: दया, IAST: dǎyā) is a Sanskrit word commonly translated as "sympathy" or "compassion". [1] [2] [3] It is derived from the root word 'da', which means "gift" and is a concept in Hinduism and Sikhism where one feels sympathy for the suffering of others. [2] In the Yoga and Hindu tradition, daya is one of the 10 Yamas. [2] [4]

  6. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Compound verbs, a highly visible feature of Hindi–Urdu grammar, consist of a verbal stem plus a light verb. The light verb (also called "subsidiary", "explicator verb", and "vector" [ 55 ] ) loses its own independent meaning and instead "lends a certain shade of meaning" [ 56 ] to the main or stem verb, which "comprises the lexical core of ...

  7. Hindustani verbs - Wikipedia

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    1. karnā "to do"→ kar rahā rêhnā "to be/stay doing." 2. karnā "to do"→ kar rahā honā "to be doing." mārnā "to hit" It is a non-productive light verb (LV) and is used with very limited verbs, most commonly with denā "to give". 1. denā "to give" → de mārnā "to hit once but with all force" phāṛnā "to tear" It is a non ...

  8. Hindustani declension - Wikipedia

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    Hindi-Urdu, also known as Hindustani, has three noun cases (nominative, oblique, and vocative) [1] [2] and five pronoun cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, and oblique). The oblique case in pronouns has three subdivisions: Regular, Ergative , and Genitive .

  9. Self-compassion - Wikipedia

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    Self-compassion focuses on soothing and comforting the self when faced with distressing experiences. [50] Self-compassion is composed of three components; self kindness versus self-judgement, a sense of common humanity versus isolation and mindfulness versus over-identification when confronting painful thoughts and emotions. [50]