cl. 10. P. (ep. also Ā.) kathayati (-te) aor. acakathat ([Pāṇ. vii, 4, 93], [Kāś.]) and acīkathat ([Vop.]), to converse with any one (instr., sometimes with saha), [MBh.]; to tell, relate, narrate, report, inform, speak about, declare, explain, describe (with acc. of the thing or person spoken about), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Śak.] &c.; to announce, show, exhibit, bespeak, betoken, [Mn. xi, 114]; [Śak. 291, 4]; [Suśr.] &c.; to order, command, [Pañcat. 57, 22]; to suppose, state, [MBh. iii, 10668]; [Mn. vii, 157] : Pass. kathyate, to be called, be regarded or considered as, pass for, [Pañcat.]; [Hit.] &c.;
[fr. katham, ‘to tell the how’; cf. Goth. qvith́an; Old High Germ. quethan and quedan; Eng. quoth and quote.]