cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xviii, 5]) rocate (Ved. and ep. also °ti; pf. ruroca, rurucé, [RV.] &c. &c.; Subj. rurucanta Pot. rurucyās, [RV.]; p. rurukvás, rurucāná, [ib.]; aor. arucat, [Rājat.]; arociṣṭa, [Br.] &c.; arukta, [TĀr.]; p. rucāná, [RV.]; aor. Pass. aroci, [RV.]; Prec. rucīya, [TĀr.]; rociṣīya, [Br.]; ruciṣīya, [AV.]; fut. rocitā Gr.; rociṣyate, [MBh.]; inf. rocitum, [ib.]; rucé, [RV.]; ind.p. rucitvā or rocitvā, [Pāṇ. i, 2, 26]), to shine, be bright or radiant or resplendent, [RV.] &c. &c.; (only in pf. P.) to make bright or resplendent, [RV.]; to be splendid or beautiful or good, [AV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be agreeable to, please (dat. or gen.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to be pleased with, like (acc.), [MBh.]; [R.]; to be desirous of, long for (dat.), [Hariv.] : Caus. rocáyati, °te (aor. árūrucat, °cata; Pass. rocyate), to cause to shine, [RV.]; to enlighten, illuminate, make bright, [ib.]; [ŚBr.]; [BhP.]; to make pleasant or beautiful, [AV.]; [AitBr.]; [Kum.] ; to cause any one (acc.) to long for anything (dat.), [Gīt.]; to find pleasure in, like, approve, deem anything right (acc. or inf.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to choose as (double acc.), [R.]; to purpose, intend, [Hariv.]; (Pass.) to be pleasant or agreeable to (dat.), [R.] : Desid. ruruciṣate or rurociṣate Gr.: Intens. (only p. rórucāna) to shine bright, [RV.]
liking, taste, relish, pleasure, appetite, zest, [AV.] &c. &c. (ifc. taking pleasure in, desirous of, longing for; with loc., prati inf. or comp.; ruciṃ-√ dā or rucaye-√ bhū, to please; rucim ā-√ vah, with dat., to excite a desire for; rucyā or sva-rucyā, at pleasure, at will)
a kind of coitus, [L.]
a kind of pigment (= rocanā), [L.]
N. of an Apsaras, [MBh.]
of the wife of Devaśarman, [ib.]
rúci m. N. of a Prajā-pati (the husband of Ākūti and father of Yajña or Su-yajña and of Manu Raucya), [Pur.]
ruci—tā, f. ([Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.) or ruci—tva, n. ([R.]) the having a taste or liking or desire for, taking pleasure in (ifc.; e.g. ārambha-ruci-tā, ‘fondness or taste for new enterprises’; cf. -samāna-r°, hiṃsā-ruci-tva; adharma-ruci-tā, [MBh. xiii, 5628] [w.r. adharme r°]).
(ā), f. a kind of metre, [W.] (prob. w.r. for rucirā)
ruci—tā, f. ([Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.) or ruci—tva, n. ([R.]) the having a taste or liking or desire for, taking pleasure in (ifc.; e.g. ārambha-ruci-tā, ‘fondness or taste for new enterprises’; cf. -samāna-r°, hiṃsā-ruci-tva; adharma-ruci-tā, [MBh. xiii, 5628] [w.r. adharme r°]).