gṛhá m. an assistant, servant, [RV. x, 119, 13]
(m. sg. and pl., in later language m. pl. and n. sg.) a house, habitation, home, [RV.] (mṛn-máya g°, ‘house of earth’, grave, [vii, 89, 1]), [AV.] (adharā́d g°, ‘the lower world’, [ii, 14, 3]) &c.
(ifc. f(A). , [R. i, 5, 9]; f(I). , [Pañcat. i, 17, 5])
ifc. with names of gods ‘a temple’ (cf. caṇḍikā-, devatā-), of plants ‘a bower’
gṛhá m. pl. a house as containing several rooms, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.
the inhabitants of a house, family, [ŚBr. i]; [BhP. iii, 2, 7]; [Kathās. xx, 21]
domestic or family life, [Jātakam.]
a wife, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 144], [Kāś.]
gṛhá m. a householder, [BhP. xi, 8, 9]
gṛhá n. a wife, [Pañcat. iii, 7, 13]
a sign of the zodiac, [VarBṛS. vci], [civ]
an astrological mansion, [VarBṛ. i], [iv f.]
N. of the 4th astrological mansion, [i, 16]
a square (in chess or in any similar game), [Kād. i, 48]; [Pāṇ. v, 2, 9], [Kaiy.]
a name, appellation, [L.] (cf. anti-, bhumi-, śayyā-, su)
[cf. Zd. geredha; Got. gards; Lat. hortus.]