cl. 2. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 35]) brávīti, brūté (only pr. stem; the other forms are supplied by √ vac cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 53]; brūmi for bravīmi, [R.]; Subj. brávas, °vat, [RV.]; Impv. brūhi, ep. also bravīhi, bruvadhvam; brūtāt, [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 35], Sch.; impf. abruvam for abravam, [Up.]; [MBh.]; pr.p. Ā. ep. bruvamāṇa for bruvāṇa; Prec. 2. pl. brūyāsta, [Nal. xvii, 36], prob. w.r. for brūyās tat), to speak, say, tell (either intrans.; or with acc. of pers. or thing; or with acc. of thing and acc. dat. gen. or loc. of person = to tell or relate anything to; with two acc. also = declare or pronounce to be, call), [RV.] &c. &c.; to speak about any person or thing (acc. with or without prati, or adhikṛtya), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to proclaim, predict, [Var.]; to answer (either intrans. with punar or trans. with praśnam, ‘a question’), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; (with anyathā) to speak or decide or judge wrongly, [Mn.]; [Pañcat.]; (Ā., rarely P.) to call or profess one's self to be (nom., rarely with iti), [RV.]; [Br.]; [MBh.]; (Ā.) to designate for one's self, choose, [AitBr.]; (Ā.) to be told by itself, tell itself (tell its tale), [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 89], Vārtt. 1, [Pat.]
[cf. Zd. mrū.]