cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xx, 23]) ramate (Ved. also P. rámati or ramṇāti pf. rarāma, [MBh.]; reme, [Br.] &c.; aor. 3. pl. ranta, [RV.]; araṃsīt, [Kāv.]; araṃsta, [RV.]; raṃsiṣam, [SV.]; fut. rantā Gr.; raṃsyati, [Br.]; °te, [ib.] &c.; inf. ramitum, [MBh.]; rantum, [ib.] &c.; rantos, [Br.]; ind.p. ratvā́, [ib.]; rantvā, [Kāv.]; -ramya or -ratya, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 38]), to stop, stay, make fast, calm, set at rest (P.; esp. pres. ramṇāti), [RV.]; [VS.]; (P. Ā.) to delight, make happy, enjoy carnally, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Śukas.]; (Ā.) to stand still, rest, abide, like to stay with (loc. or dat.), [RV.] &c. &c.; (Ā.; P. only mc.) to be glad or pleased, rejoice at, delight in, be fond of (loc. instr. or inf.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to play or sport, dally, have sexual intercourse with (instr. with or without samam, saha, sākam or sārdham), [ChUp.]; [MBh.] &c.; to couple (said of deer), [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 26], Vārtt. 8, [Pat.] (cf. Caus.); to play with i.e. put to stake (instr.), [Bhaṭṭ.] : Caus. ramáyati or rāmáyati (aor. árīramat), to cause to stay, stop, set at rest, [RV.]; [TS.]; [PañcavBr.]; [KātyŚr.]; (ramayati, mc. also °te) to gladden, delight, please, caress, enjoy carnally, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (3. sg. ramayati-tarām, [Ratnāv. iii, 9]); to enjoy one's self, be pleased or delighted, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; mṛgān ramayati, he tells that the deer are coupling, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 26], Vārtt. 8, [Pat.] : Desid. in riraṃsā, °su, q.v.: Desid. of Caus. in riramayiṣu, q.v.: Intens. raṃramyate or raṃramīti, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 85.]
rabh or (mostly comp. with a prep.; cf. √ grabh and See √ labh with which rabh is connected) cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiii, 5]) rábhate (mc. also °ti and ep. rambhati, °te; pf. rebhé, [RV.]; also rārabhe and 1. pl. rarabhmá; aor. árabdha, [RV.]; fut. rabdhā Gr.; rapsyati, [MBh.]; °te, [ib.] &c.; inf. rabdhum, [MBh.]; Ved. rábham, rábhe; ind.p. rábhya, [RV.] &c.), to take hold of, grasp, clasp, embrace, [BhP.] (arabhat, [Hariv. 8106] w.r. for ārabhat); to desire vehemently, [MW.]; to act rashly, [ib.] (cf. rabhas, rabhasa) : Pass. rabhyate aor. arambhi, [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 63] : Caus. rambhayati, °te aor. ararambhat, [ib.] : Desid. ripsate, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 54] : Intens. rārabhyate, rārabhīti, rārabdhi (as far as these forms really occur, they are only found after prepositions; cf. anv-ā-, ā-, prā-, vy-ā-, pari-, saṃ-rabh &c.)
See √ rabh.
(cf. √ ramb) cl. 1. Ā. rambhate, to sound, roar, [Dhātup. x, 24] (only p. rambhamāṇa, [BhP.])
f. the plantain (Musa Sapientum), [Kāv.]; [Kathās.] &c.
a sort of rice, [L.]
a cotton string round the loins, [L.]
a courtezan, [Kāv.] (v.l. for veśyā)
a kind of metre, [Col.]
N. of Gaurī or of Dākṣāyaṇī in the Malaya mountains, [Cat.] of a celebrated Apsaras (wife of Nala-kūbara and carried off by Rāvaṇa; sometimes regarded as a form of Lakṣmī and as the most beautiful woman of Indra's paradise), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
mf(U or u)n. having thighs (smooth and tapering) like (the stem of) a plantain tree, full, round, lovely (said of women, esp. in the voc. cf. [Vām. ii, 49]), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
rambhā—tṛtīyā f. N. of the third day of the first half of the month Jyaiṣṭha (so called because Hindū women on this day imitate Rambhā, who bathed on the same day with partic. ceremonies), [Cat.]