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vāśवाश्cl. 4. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxvi, 54]) vāśyate (ep. also vāśyati, Ved. and ep. also vā́śati, °te; pf. vavāśe, °śire; in [RV.] also vāvaśre and p. vāvaśāná; aor. avāśiṣṭa, [Br.]; fut. vāśitā, vāśiṣyate Gr.; inf. vāśitum, [ib.]; ind.p. vāśitvā, -vāśya, [VarBṛS.]), to roar, howl, bellow, bleat, low (as a cow), cry, shriek, sing (like a bird), sound, resound, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. vāśayati (aor. avavāśat, in [RV.] also avīvaśat, ávīvaśanta), to cause to roar or low or resound or thunder, [RV.]; (Ā.) to roar or sound aloud, [ib.] : Desid. vivāśiṣate Gr.: Intens. vāvāśyate (v.l. rārāśyate, [MBh.]), vāvaṣṭi (impf. aor. ávāvaśanta, vāvaśanta, avāvaśītām; p. vā́vaśat), to roar or scream or sound aloud, [RV.] [ is sometimes wrongly written vās.]
vāśāवाशाf. a species of plant, [Kauś.]
vāśīवाशीvā́śī f. (also written vāsī; accord. to some connected with √ vraśc) a sharp or pointed knife or a kind of axe, adze, chisel (esp. as the weapon of Agni or the Maruts, and the instrument of the Ṛbhus, while the paraśu or axe is that of Tvaṣṭṛ), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]
sound, voice, [Naigh.] (cf. under 1. vāśa).
vāśaवाशvāśá mfn. roaring, sounding, [RV. viii, 19, 31]
id. (only ā and ī f. pl. applied to water), [VS.]; [TS.]
m. patr. fr. vaśa, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]
n. N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]
vāśiवाशिm. ‘roaring’, fire or the god of fire, [Uṇ. iv, 124], Sch.
vāśinवाशिन्mfn. (also written vāsin) howling, croaking &c., [Kām.] (cf. ghora-v°).
vāśrāवाश्रा(ā), f. (scil. dhenú) a lowing cow, any cow, [RV.]; [AV.] (also written vāsrā)
a mother, [MW.]
vāśraवाश्रvāśrá mf(A/)n. roaring, lowing, howling, thundering, sounding, whistling &c., [RV.]; [BhP.] (compar. -tara, [Kāṭh.])
vāśrá m. a day, [L.]
vāśrá n. (only [L.]) a building
a place where four roads meet
dung.
vāśakaवाशकmfn. (for 2. See below) croaking, screaming, warbling (said of birds), [Mṛcch.]
mf(ikA). Gendarussa Vulgaris, [L.] (cf. 1. vāsa, vāsaka).
vāśanaवाशनmfn. id., [Bhaṭṭ.]
m. (saṃjñāyām) (g. nandy-ādi)
n. the act of roaring, bleating &c., [TBr.], Sch. (cf. ghora-v°).
vāśavaवाशवm. = vāsava, [L.]
vāśitāवाशिताf. (also written vāsitā, prob. fr. √ vaś) a cow desiring the bull (also applied to other animals desiring the male, esp. to a female elephant), [AV.] &c. &c.
a woman, wife, [MBh.]
vāśitaवाशितmfn. roared, cried, sung, [MBh.] &c.
n. roaring, croaking, yelling, howl, cry, scream, [MBh.]; [R.]; [VarBṛS.]; [Kathās.]
= 1. vāsita, [L.]
vāśurāवाशुराf. (said to be fr. √ vāś) night, [Uṇ. i, 39], Sch. (cf. vāsurā).
vāśīmatवाशीमत्vā́śī—mat (vā́śī-), mfn. having a sharp knife, armed with an axe, [RV.]
vāśiṣṭhaवाशिष्ठincorrect for vāsiṣṭha.
vāśitāgṛṣṭiवाशितागृष्टिvāśitā—gṛṣṭi f. a young female elephant, [MBh. xi, 642] (cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 65]).