lesya

[ lesh-yah ]

noun

, Jainism.

1. any of six possible colors given to the monad, or individual soul, by its karma and being lighter or darker according to the proportion of good or evil included in the karma.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lesya¹

From the Sanskrit word leśyā light

Example Sentences

Images of the friendly Jack Russell terrier help create the "atmosphere of psychological and mental safety" Ukrainian children need, Lesya Yurchyshyn, a teacher from Kyiv, told the BBC's Ukrainecast podcast.

From BBC

Svitlana, Lesya and Natasha live in the so-called gray zone, a buffer area between the Ukrainian and Russian positions on the Zaporizhzhia front in southern Ukraine.

From New York Times

In Moscow, people brought flowers to the statue of a famed Ukrainian writer, Lesya Ukrainka, which became a makeshift memorial to Ukrainian victims of Russia’s invasion following a missile strike on a residential building in Dnipro in January that killed at least 46 people.

From Washington Post

In a park in Moscow, a steady trickle of people laid flowers at a statue of the Ukrainian poet Larysa Kosach-Kvitka, better known as Lesya Ukrainka, while two police officers watched from a parked squad car nearby.

From New York Times

In Moscow, at least three people laying flowers on a monument to prominent Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka were quickly detained by police officers, rights centre OVD-Info said.

From Reuters