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man

in comp. for 1. mad.

cl. 8. 4. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxx, 9]; [xxv, 67]) manuté, mányate (ep. also °ti; 3. pl. manvaté, [RV.]; pf. mene, [Br.] &c.; mamnā́the, °nā́ts, [RV.]; aor. ámata, ámanmahi Subj. manāmahe, mananta, p. manāná, q.v., [RV.]; maṃsi, amaṃsta Subj. maṃsate Prec. maṃsīṣṭa, 1. pers. mc. masīya, [ib.]; māṃsta, [AV.], °stādm, [TĀr.]; mandhvam, [Br.]; amaniṣṭa Gr.; fut. maṃsyate, [Br.], °ti, [MBh.]; manta, manitā Gr.; maniṣyate, [RV.]; inf. mantum, [MBh.] &c., mántave, °tavai, [RV.], mántos, [Br.]; ind.p. matvā́, [Up.] &c.; manitvā Gr.; -matya, [Br.] &c.; -manya, [MBh.] &c.), to think, believe, imagine, suppose, conjecture, [RV.] &c. &c. (manye, I think, methinks, is in later language often inserted in a sentence without affecting the construction; cf. g. cādi and [Pāṇ. iv, 1, 106]); to regard or consider any one or anything (acc.) as (acc. with or without iva, or adv., often in -vat; in later language also dat., to express contempt [cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 17]], e.g. g. rājyaṃ tṛṇāya manye, ‘I value empire at a straw’ i.e. I make light of it = laghu √ man, and opp. to bahu, or sādhu √ man, to think much or well of, praise, approve), [ib.]; to think one's self or be thought to be, appear as, pass for (nom.; also with iva), [ib.]; to be of opinion, think fit or right, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to agree or be of the same opinion with (acc.), [MBh.]; to set the heart or mind on, honour, esteem (with na, disdain), hope or wish for (acc. or gen.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to think of (in prayer &c., either ‘to remember, meditate on’, or ‘mention, declare’, or ‘excogitate, invent’), [RV.]; [AV.]; to perceive, observe, learn, know, understand, comprehend (acc., Ved. also gen.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to offer, present, [MBh.] : Caus. ([Dhātup. xxxiv, 36]) mānayati (ep. also °te; aor. amīmanat; Pass. mānyate), to honour, esteem, value highly (also with uru, bahu and sādhu), [AV.] &c. &c.; (Ā.) stambhe, [Dhātup. xxxiii, 35]; garvake, [ib.]; [Vop.] : Desid. ([Dhātup. xxiii, 3]) mīmāṃsate (rarely °ti; amīmāṃsiṣṭhās, [ŚBr.]; mīmāṃsyáte, [AV.]; mimaṃsate, mimaniṣate Gr.), to reflect upon, consider, examine, investigate, [AV.]; [Br.] &c.; to call in question, doubt (‘with regard to’ loc.), [ib.] : Desid. of Desid. mimāmiṣate Gr.: Intens. manmanyate, manmanti, [ib.]

[cf. Zd. man; Gk. μένω, μέμονα, Lat. meminisse, monere; Slav. and Lith. minė́ti; Goth. ga-munan; Germ. meinen; Eng. mean.]