Arupa, ū貹, ū: 27 definitions
Introduction:
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Alternative spellings of this word include Arup.
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
: archive.org: Puranic Encyclopediaū (अरूप�).—One of Dakṣa’s daughters. (Mahbhrata, Ādi Parva, Chapter 65, Verse 46).
: archive.org: Shiva Purana - English Translationū貹 (अरूप) refers to the “formless� and is used to describe Śiva, in the Śivapurṇa 2.2.15. Accordingly as Brahm narrated to Nrada:—“[...] On arrival there, after paying respects to the lord [Śiva] with great excitement we lauded Him with various hymns with palms joined in reverence. The Devas said: [...] Obeisance to the formless (ū貹) Being of immense form, the great, of unlimited power, the lord of the three worlds, the witness of all and all-pervasive�.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index1a) ū貹 (अरूप).—A Գٰṛt.*
- * Vyu-purṇa 59. 97.
1b) The people of a Janapada on the other side of the Vindhyas. (anūpas—v. p.).*
- * Matsya-purṇa 114. 54; Vyu-purṇa 45. 134.
2) ū (अरूप�).—A daughter of Riṣṭa.*
- * Brahmṇḍa-purṇa III. 7. 13; Vyu-purṇa 69. 48.

The Purana (पुरा�, purṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)
: Google Books: Manthanabhairavatantramū貹 (अरूप) refers to the “formless�, according to the Śrīmatottara-tantra, an expansion of the Kubjikmatatantra: the earliest popular and most authoritative Tantra of the Kubjik cult.—Accordingly, “Abandon (both) form (ū貹) and the formless [i.e., ū貹]. Practice what is beyond form. All this (divine body) is in the form of a container (of the supreme state). It is the radiant energy which is all things. One who desires the (supreme) good should abandon everything. It is as useless as rotten meat. O god, there is nothing at all (of deity) in the navel, heart, mouth, and nose, nothing at all between the eyebrows, forehead, in the middle of the palate, or within the uvula, head and eyes. [...]�.

Shakta (शाक्�, śkta) or Shaktism (śktism) represents a tradition of Hinduism where the Goddess (Devi) is revered and worshipped. Shakta literature includes a range of scriptures, including various Agamas and Tantras, although its roots may be traced back to the Vedas.
Pancaratra (worship of Nryaṇa)
: archive.org: Catalogue of Pancaratra Agama Textsū貹 (अरूप) refers to “non-personal (categories)�, as discussed in chapter 6 (Jñnada) of the ʲ峾ṃh: the most widely followed of Saṃhit covering the entire range of concerns of Pñcartra doctrine and practice (i.e., the four-fold formulation of subject matter�ñԲ, yoga, and ) consisting of roughly 9000 verses.—Description of the chapter [پ-ܱⲹ]: Brahm, having heard the foregoing description of Ultimate Reality in terms that are reminiscent of personality, now seeks to know about the same Ultimate Reality in non-personal [ū貹] categories. A series of similes is given (2-29) which attempts to show the nature, extent and relation to this world of Ultimate Reality. [...]

Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, ñcartra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
: Dhamma Dana: Pali English GlossaryAbsence of matter.
Theravda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Source: Wisdom Library: JainismIn Jainism, 'arupi' stands for 'non-material'. Probably the same as arupa.

Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance�) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.
Biology (plants and animals)
: Wisdom Library: Local Names of Plants and DrugsArupa in the Sanskrit language is the name of a plant identified with Triticum aestivum from the Poaceae (Grass) family. For the possible medicinal usage of arupa, you can check this page for potential sources and references, although be aware that any some or none of the side-effects may not be mentioned here, wether they be harmful or beneficial to health.
: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Arupa in India is the name of a plant defined with Triticum aestivum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Zeia vulgaris var. aestiva (L.) Lunell (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Enciclopedia Argentina de Agricultura y Jardineria (1959)
· Systema Vegetabilium. Editio decima tertia (1774)
· Flora Helvetica (1828)
· Grasses of Ceylon (1956)
· Taxon (2000)
· La flore adventice de Montpellier (1912)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Arupa, for example side effects, chemical composition, pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, extract dosage, health benefits, have a look at these references.

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Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryū貹 : (adj.) formless; incorporeal; non-substantial.
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionaryū貹, (adj.) (a + ū貹) without form or body, incorporeal, D. I, 195 sq. ; III, 240; Sn. 755; It. 62; Sdhp. 228, 463, 480. See details under ū貹.
[Pali to Burmese]
: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မ� အဘိဓာန�)ū貹�
(Burmese text): (�) ရုပ်မဟုတ်သေ�-ရုပ်မှတစ်ပါးသေ�-တရား၊ (က) (နာမက္ခန္ဓာလေးပါ�,နိဗ္ဗာန�-ဟူသေ�) နာမ်တရား။ (�) အရူပါဝစရစိတ�,စေတသိက်တည်းဟူသေ�) အရူပါဝစရတရား၊ အရူပဘဝ။ (�) အရူပသမာပတ်။ (�) အရူပပဋိသန္ဓေ။ (�) အရူပဈာန်။ (�) အရူပတဏှာ၊ အရူပရာဂ။ (�) ကသိုဏ်းရုပ်နိမိတ�-ကသိုဏ်းရုပ်အာရု�-မဟုတ်သေ� အာရုံ၊ အဇ္ဈတ္� (ခန္ဓာကိုယ� ကာယမ�) ကသိုဏ်းရုပ� မဟုတ်သေ� အာရုံ၊ (ကောင်းကင်ပညတ်စသေ� အာရုံလေးပါ�)� (�) ရုပ်မရှိရာဖြစ်သေ� ဘုံ၊ အရူပဘုံ။ (�) ရုပ်မရှိသေ� ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်၊ အရူပပုဂ္ဂိုလ်။ (တ�) (�) ရုပ်သဘောကိ� လွန်မြောက�-ဖောက်ပြန်ခြင်းမရှ�-အသွင်သဏ္ဌာန်မရှ�-အကြောင်းတရားမရှ�-သော၊ တရား၊ နိဗ္ဗာန်။ (တ�) (�) အသွင်သဏ္ဌာန�-အဆင်�-မရှိသေ� တရား၊ စိတ်။ (တ�) (�) (က) ရုပ်မရှိသော၊ ရုပ်နှင့� မရောနှောသော။ (�) အကြောင်းမရှိသော။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Non-material - beyond form - truth; (a) (the four ultimate realities of name, nirvana) named reality. (b) (matter and mind, known as) immaterial reality, immaterial existence. (c) immaterial sphere of existence. (d) immaterial binding. (e) immaterial element. (f) immaterial consciousness. (g) immaterial awareness. (h) non-material sensory perception - a sense that is not derived from physical form - (the four divine senses). (2) The state of being without form, immaterial realm. (3) An individual without form, immaterial individual. (4) The truth that transcends form - without distortion - without distinctive character - without cause - that is, reality, nirvana. (5) The state without distinctive character - without shape - that is truth, mind. (6) (a) Non-physical, not mixed with form. (b) Without cause. Please refer to the original text.

Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Marathi-English dictionary
: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryarupa (अरुप).—a S (Poetry.) Void of figure or form;--used of Brahma, air, sound &c. Ex. a0 tē� rusa lē� ||
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryū貹 (अरूप).�a.
1) Formless, shapeless.
2) Ugly, deformed.
3) Dissimilar, unlike.
-pam 1 A bad or ugly figure. तामरूपामसती� भक्षयिष्यामि मानुषीम् (tmarūmasatī� bhakṣayiṣymi mnuṣīm) 峾
2) The Pradhna of the Sṅkhyas and Brahman of the Vedntins.
4) Not possessed of द्रव्य (dravya) and देवत� (𱹲); अरूप� शब्द� श्रूयमाण� (ū貹� śabda� śrūyamṇa�) &c. ŚB. on MS.4.4.1. (It may be observed that dravya and 𱹲 form the ū貹 or form of a sacrifice).
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryĀū貹 (आरूप).�nt. (= rūpya; compare rūpin), formlessness: ṅk屹-ūٰ 312.8(�9) rūpya-ū貹� hy ū貹ir�(9) ū貹� darśyanti sattvn�.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionaryū貹 (अरूप).—mfn.
(-貹�--ī-貹�) 1. Formless, shapeless. 2. Ugly. ill formed, mishapen. 3. Dissimilar, unlike. E. a neg. ū貹 beauty.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionaryū貹 (अरूप).—adj., f. , disfigured, [峾yaṇa] 2, 23, 43.
ū貹 is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms a and ū貹 (रू�).
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionaryū貹 (अरूप).—[adjective] shapeless, ill formed, ugly.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) ū貹 (अरूप):—[=a-ū貹] mf()n. formless, shapeless, [Pbr.; Śvetśvatara-upaniṣad; Nṛsiṃha-tpanīya-upaniṣad]
2) [v.s. ...] ugly, ill-formed, [峾yaṇa]
3) [v.s. ...] emancipation (= nirvṇa), [Monier-Williams� Buddhism 137]
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) ū貹 (अरूप):—[a-ū貹] (pa�--pa�) a. Ugly.
2) [(pa�--pa�) a.] Unseen, invisible.
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)ū貹 (अरूप) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: ū.
[Sanskrit to German]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Hindi dictionary
: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionaryū貹 (अरूप) [Also spelled arup]:�(a) formless.
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Kannada-English dictionary
: Alar: Kannada-English corpusū貹 (ಅರೂಪ):—[adjective] having no shape or form; formless; shapeless.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionaryū貹 (अरूप):—adj. 1. formless; shapeless; 2. ugly; deformed;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
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