ā-√ 1. dā Ā. -datte, ([Pāṇ. i, 3, 20]), ep. also rarely P. (e.g. 1. sg. -dadmi, or -dadāmi), Ved. generally Ā. [Pot. 1. pl. -dadīmahi ; impf. 3. sg. ādatta; perf. 1. and 3. sg. -dade; perf. p. -dadāná, [RV. iv, 19, 9], or -dádāna, [RV. x, 18, 9]; [AV.]], but also P. (impf. sg. ādam, ādas, ādat, and 1. pl. ādāma aor. 3. du. āttām, [VS. xxi, 43]) ‘to give to one's self’, take, accept, receive from (loc. instr. or abl.), [RV.] &c.; to seize, take away, carry off, rob, [ib.]; to take back, reclaim, [Mn. viii, 222] seq.; to take off or out from (abl.), separate from (abl.), [RV. i, 139, 2], &c.; to take or carry away with one's self, [KenaUp.] (Pot. P. 1. sg. -dadīyam !), [Mn. ix, 92]; [MBh.]; to seize, grasp, take or catch hold of [RV.] &c.; to put on (clothes), [RV. ix, 96, 1]; [ŚvetUp.]; to take as food or drink (with gen.), [RV. viii, 72, 17] and,(perf. Pass. 3. sg. -dade), [19, 31]; (with acc.), [Ragh. ii, 6]; to undertake, begin, [BhP.] &c.; to choose (a path), [R.]; [Ragh. iii, 46]; (with vacanam &c.) to begin to speak, [MBh.] &c.; to begin to speak or to recite, [TāṇḍyaBr.]; [Lāṭy.] (cf. punar-ādāyam); to offer (as oblations), [MuṇḍUp.] (irreg. pr. p. -dadāyat); to perceive, notice, feel, [MBh.]; [Rājat.]; to keep in mind, [N.]; to accept, approve of [MBh. v, 7324]; [R.]; [Mālav.] : Caus. (ind.p. -dāpya) to cause one to take, [ŚāṅkhŚr.] : Desid. Ā. (impf. 3. pl. ā́ditsanta) to be on the point of taking or carrying away from (gen.), [TS. i]; to be on the point of taking (the hand of), [Daś.]; to be about to take to one's self, [Hcar.]
ā-√ 4. dā P. ā́-dyati, to bind on, fasten to, [AV.]