cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xvi, 11]) bhā́ṣate (ep. also P. °ti; pf. babhāṣe, [Br.] &c.; fut. bhāṣiṣyate or bhāṣitā Gr.: aor. abhāṣiṣi, °ṣṭhāḥ, °ṣata, [Bhaṭṭ.]; inf. bhāṣitum, [Up.]; bhāṣṭum, [MBh.]; ind.p. bhāṣitvā, -bhāṣya, [ib.]), to speak, talk, say, tell (with acc. of thing or person, sometimes also with acc. of thing and person), [Br.] &c. &c.; to speak of or about or on (acc.), [Kām.]; to announce, declare, [Gobh.]; to call, name, describe as (with two acc.), [Mn.]; [Śrutab.]; to use or employ in speaking, [Nir.]; [Suśr.]; Pass. bhāṣyate (aor. abhāṣi), to be spoken, be addressed or spoken to, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. bhāṣayati, °te (aor. ababhāṣat or abībhaṣat, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 3]), to cause to speak or talk, [MārkP.] ; to cause to speak i.e. to think, agitate, disquiet, [R.]; to say, speak, [MBh.] : Desid., bibhāṣiṣate Gr.: Intens. bābhāṣyate, bābhāṣṭi, [ib.] (sometimes confounded with bhaṣ; cf. √ bhaṇ and bhās).
(√ bhaṣ), occurring only in rakṣo-bhāṣ, q.v.