m. (for 2. See col. 2) fear, terror, [W.]
śaṅkú m. (of doubtful derivation) a peg, nail, spike, [RV.] &c. &c.
a stick, [Hariv.]
a stake, post, pillar, [MBh.]
an arrow, spear, dart (fig. applied to the ‘sting’ of sorrow, pain &c.; cf. śaṅkā-, śoka-ś° &c.), [Hariv.]; [Kāv.]; [Rājat.]
a partic. weapon or any weapon, [L.]
the pin or gnomon of a dial (usually twelve fingers long), [Col.]
a kind of forceps (used for the extraction of a dead fetus), [Suśr.]
the fibre or vein of a leaf, [ChUp.]
the measure of twelve fingers, [L.]
(in astron.) the sine of altitude, [Sūryas.]
a partic. high number, ten billions (compared to an innumerable collection of ants), [MBh.]; [R.]
the clapper of a bell, [Govardh.] ([L.] also the penis; poison; Unguis Odoratus; a partic. tree or the trunk of a lopped tree; a partic. fish [accord. to some ‘the skate fish’] or aquatic animal; a goose; a measuring rod; a Rākṣasa; N. of Śiva; of a Gandharva attendant on Śiva; of Kāma; of a Nāga; = aṃśa)
N. of a man g. gargādi
of a Dānava, [Hariv.]
of a Vṛṣṇi (son of Ugra-sena), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]
of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [Hariv.]
of a poet (= śaṅkuka, q.v.), [Cat.]
of a. Brāhman, [Buddh.]
śaṅkú n. N. of a Sāman, [ĀrṣBr.]