rūpá n. (perhaps connected with varpa, varpas; ifc. f.(A), rarely (ī)) any outward appearance or phenomenon or colour (often pl.), form, shape, figure, [RV.] &c. &c. (rūpeṇa ifc. in the form of ; rūpam-√ kṛ or √ bhū, to assume a form; often ifc. = ‘having the form or appearance or colour of’, ‘formed or composed of’, ‘consisting of’, ‘like to’; sometimes used after an adj. or p.p. to emphasize its meaning or almost redundantly, cf. ghora-r°; or connected with a verb, e.g. pacati-rūpam, he cooks very well, cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 57])
dreamy or phantom shapes (pl.), [VS.]; [ŚBr.]
handsome form, loveliness, grace, beauty, splendour, [RV.] &c. &c.
nature, character, peculiarity, feature, mark, sign, symptom, [VS.] &c. &c.
likeness, image, reflection, [Mn.]; [Kathās.]
circumstances (opp. to ‘time’ and ‘place’), [Mn. viii, 45]
sort, kind, [R.]; [Suśr.]
mode, manner, way, [Kap.]
(ifc.) trace of [R.]
a single specimen or exemplar (and therefore a term for the number ‘one’), [VarBṛS.]; [Gaṇit.]
a partic. coin (prob. a rupee), [VarBṛS.]
a show, play, drama, [Daśar.]
(in alg.) the arithmetical unit
(pl.) integer number
known or absolute number, a known quantity as having specific form (and expressed by rū i.e. first syllable of ), [IW. 182]
(in gram.) any form of a noun or verb (as inflected by declension or conjugation), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 68] &c.
(in phil.) the quality of colour (one of the 17 or 24 Guṇas of the Vaiśeṣikas), [IW. 68]
(with Buddhists) material form i.e. the organized body (as one of the 5 constituent elements or Skandhas), [Dharmas. 22]; [MWB. 109]
(in dram.) a reflection or remark made under partic. circumstances when the action is at its height (garbhe), [Bhar.]; [Daśar.] &c.
(only [L.]) cattle
a beast
a sound, word
rereading a book (= granthāvṛtti)
rūpá m. a word of unknown meaning, [AV. xviii, 3, 40]
(pl.) N. of a people, [MBh.]
rūpá m. or n. N. of a place (v.l. rūma), [Cat.]