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naptṛ

nápāt, náptṛ, m. (the former stem only in the strong cases and earlier lang.; the latter in Class., but acc. naptāram appears in [TS.] & [AitBr.]) descendant, offspring, son (in this meaning esp. in [RV.], e.g. apāṃ n°, ūrjo n°, divo n°, vimuco n° &c.); grandson (in later lang. restricted to this sense), [RV.] &c. &c.; N. of one of the Viśve devās, [MBh. xiii, 4362]; path of the gods (?), [Mahīdh.] on [VS. xix, 56]; granddaughter (?), [Uṇ. ii, 96], Sch.; (tī́), f., [RV.]; [AV.] ([ix, 1, 3] nom. °tís) daughter, granddaughter (pl. often fig. ‘the fingers, hands’ &c.); (trī), f. granddaughter, [SVĀr.]; [L.] [Prob. neither = na + pat ([Uṇ. ii, 96]) nor na + pāt ([Pāṇ. vi, 3, 75]), and of very questionable connection with √ nabh, or nah; cf. Zd. napāt, naptar; Gk. νέποδες, ἀνεψιός; Lat. nepōt-em; Angl.Sax. nefa; HGerm. nëvo, nëve, Neffe.]