cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. ii, 6]) nā́thate, [TS.]; [Kāṭh.] &c. (°ti, [MBh.]; [Kathās.]; pf. nanātha; aor. anāthīt; fut. nāthiṣyati, or nāthitā Gr.; inf. nāthitum, [Kathās.]; ind.p. -nāthya, [Prab.]) to seek aid, approach with prayers or requests (loc.), [TS.]; [Kāṭh.]; to ask, solicit, beg for (gen. of thing, [MBh. iii, 126, 30]; cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 55]; dat. of thing, [Vop.]; with 2 acc. [Naiṣ. iii, 25]); to have power, be master, [Dhātup.] : Caus. nāthayati, to cause a person to ask for anything i.e. to grant a request (acc.), [BhP.] (B.), [ii, 9, 25.]
nāthá m. a protector, patron, possessor, owner, lord (often ifc., esp. in names of gods and men, e.g. goviṅda-, jagan- &c.; but also mf(A)n. possessed of occupied by, furnished with, cf. sa-)
nāthá m. a husband (esp. in voc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
a rope passed through the nose of a draft ox, [L.]