(or śumbh) cl. 1. Ā. or cl. 6. P. ([Dhātup. xviii, 11]; [xxviii, 33]) śóbhate, śumbháti or śúmbhati (ep. also śobhati, and Ved. śúmbhate; 3. sg. śóbhe, [RV.]; pf. śuśobha, śuśubhe, [MBh.] &c.; śuśumbha Gr.; aor., aśubhat, aśobhiṣṭa, aśumbhīt, [ib.]; p. śúmbhāna, śubhāná, [RV.]; fut. śobhitā or śumbhitā Gr.; śobhiṣyati, [MBh.]; śumbhiṣyati Gr.; inf. śubhé, śobhāse, [RV.]; śobhitum Gr.), to beautify, embellish, adorn, beautify one's self. (Ā.) look beautiful or handsome, shine, be bright or splendid; (with iva or yathā, ‘to shine or look like’; with na, ‘to look bad, have a bad appearance, appear to disadvantage’), [RV.] &c. &c.; to prepare, make fit or ready, (Ā.) prepare one's self, [RV.]; [AV.]; (śúmbhate accord. to some) to flash or flit i.e. glide rapidly past or along, [RV.] (cf. śubhāná, śumbhámāna, and pra-√ śumbh); (śumbhati) wrongly for śundhati (to be connected with √ śudh, to purify), [AV. vi, 155, 3]; [xii, 2, 40] &c.; (śumbhati) to harm, injure, [Dhātup. xi, 42] (in this sense rather to be regarded as a second √ śumbh cf. √ 2. śumbh, ni-śumbh) : Pass. aor. aśobhi-tarām, [Inscr.] : Caus. śobhayati (aor. aśūśubhat ; cf. śobhita), to cause to shine, beautify, ornament, decorate, [AV.] &c. &c.; (śubháyati, °te) to ornament, decorate, (Ā.) decorate one's self, [RV.]; [TBr.]; (only pr. p. śubháyat), to fly rapidly along, [RV.] : Desid. śuśobhiṣate (accord. to Gr. also °ti, and śuśubhiṣati, °te), to wish to prepare or make ready, [Nir. viii, 10] : Intens. śośubhyate (Gr. also śośobdhi), to shine brightly or intensely, be very splendid or beautiful, [MBh.]
śúbh f. (dat. śubhé as inf.) splendour, beauty, ornament, decoration, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TBr.]
flashing or flitting past, gliding along, rapid course or flight, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]
readiness (?), [RV.]