apajighāṁsu

The Sanskrit word apajighāṁsu is written in

Devanagari as अपजिघांसु.

✅ Correct Devanagari form

अपजिघांसु

✅ Meaning

• apajighāṁsu means “desiring to harm, wishing to injure, intending
• evil toward someone.”
• It is an adjective or substantive depending on context.

✅ Morphological breakdown

• apa- — a prefix meaning away, off, wrong, bad, hostile.
• √han (घन् / हन्) — the verbal root meaning to strike, kill, harm.
• jighāṁsu (जिघांसु) — desiderative form of √han, meaning one who wishes to harm.
• Combined: apa + jighāṁsu → apajighāṁsu (अपजिघांसु)
  → one who wishes to harm in a hostile or malicious way.

✅ Notes on usage

• Appears in classical Sanskrit texts as a descriptor for a hostile or malicious person.
• Often used in compounds or as a predicate adjective.

 apajighāṁsu is a Sanskrit desiderative form meaning “one who wants to take away / remove,” built from the prefix apa- (“away”) and the root √han / √ghā (“strike, kill, destroy”).

Breakdown of the word

Although the web results do not contain this term, we can analyze it using standard Sanskrit grammar:

• apa- — a prefix meaning away, off, back (as described in the list of prefixes in result

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• √han / √ghā — the verbal root “to strike, kill, destroy.”
• Desiderative stem formation — Sanskrit forms a desiderative (meaning “to want to do X”) by reduplicating the root and adding -sa / -su.
• -su / -ṁsu — a desiderative suffix meaning “desiring to …”.
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How the desiderative is formed

The desiderative of √han is irregular:

• Root: √han / √ghā
• Reduplication: ji-ghā- (standard reduplicated form)
• Desiderative suffix: -su → jighāṁsu = “one who wants to kill/strike.”

Now add the prefix:

• apa- + jighāṁsu → apajighāṁsu
  Meaning: “one who wants to kill away / remove / destroy / get rid of.”

Meaning in context

Depending on context, apajighāṁsu can mean:

• desiring to remove
• wanting to drive away
• seeking to destroy
• wishing to get rid of something/someone

The prefix apa- gives the sense of away, off, out, so the meaning is not simply “wanting to kill,” but “wanting to eliminate / remove.”

Related forms

• jighāṁsu — “desiring to kill/strike” (without the prefix)
• apahan — “to remove, take away” (simple verb with apa- + √han)
• apaghāta — “removal, destruction” (noun from the same root)

Why this form looks unusual

The root √han behaves irregularly in many derived forms. In desideratives, it uses the strengthened form ghā, not the simple han, and reduplicates as ji-.

Summary

apajighāṁsu = apa (away) + ji-ghā (desiderative stem of √han) + ṁsu (desiderative suffix)
→ “one who wishes to remove, destroy, or get rid of something.”