cl. 1. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiii, 35]) váhati, °te (in later language Ā. only mc.; Vedic forms which may partly belong to the aor. are vákṣi, voḍham, °ḍhā́m or voam, °ā́m, uhīta, vákṣva, voḍhvam, ūḍhvam, úhāna; pf. uvāha, ūhúḥ; ūhé, [RV.] &c. &c.; vavāha, °hatuḥ, [MBh.]; aor. Ved. ávākṣīt or ávāṭ Subj. vákṣat, °ati, Prec. uhyāt; avakṣi, avoḍha Gr.; fut. voḍhā́, [Br.]; vakṣyáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; vahiṣyati, [MBh.] &c.; inf. voḍhum, [RV.] &c. &c. [Ved. also °ḍhave and °ḍhavai]; vāhe, [RV.]; váhadhyai, [ib.]; ind.p. ūḍhvā, [Br.]; -úhya, [AV.] &c. &c.; cf. √ ūh), to carry, transport, convey (with instr. of vehicle), [RV.] &c. &c.; to lead, conduct (esp. offerings to the gods, said of Agni), [ib.]; to bear along (water, said of rivers), [ib.]; to draw (a car), guide (horses &c.), [ib.]; to lead towards, to bring, procure, bestow, [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; to cause, effect, [BhP.]; to offer (a sacrifice), [ib.]; to spread, diffuse (scent), [Kathās.]; to shed (tears), [BhP.]; to carry away, carry off, rob, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to lead home, take to wife, marry, [RV.] &c. &c.; to bear or carry on or with (loc. or instr.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to take or carry with or about one's self, have, possess, [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; [Rājat.]; to wear (clothes), [Mṛcch.]; (with śiras) to bear one's head (uccaiś-tarām, ‘high’), [Hariv.]; (with vasuṃdharām or kṣmā-maṇḍālam) to support i.e. rule the earth, [Rājat.]; (with garbham) to be with child, [Pañcat.]; to bear, suffer, endure, [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; to forbear, forgive, pardon, [BhP.]; to undergo (with agnim, viṣam, tulām, ‘the ordeal of fire, poison, and the balance’), [Yājñ.]; to experience, feel, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to exhibit, show, betray, [ib.]; to pay (a fine), [Yājñ.]; to pass, spend (time), [Rājat.]; (intrans.) to drive, ride, go by or in (with instr. of the vehicle), be borne or carried along, run, swim &c., [RV.] &c. &c.; to draw (scil. a carriage, said of a horse), [Mn. viii, 146]; to blow (as wind), [Kāv.]; [Sāh.]; to pass away, elapse, [Hcar.] : Pass. uhyáte (ep. also °ti; aor. avāhi), to be carried (uhyamāna, ‘being carried’) &c.; to be drawn or borne by (instr.) or along or off, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. vāhayati (mc. also °te; aor. avīvahat; Pass. vāhyate), to cause to bear or carry or convey or draw (with two acc. [Pāṇ. i, 4, 52], Vārtt. 6 [Pat.]), drive (a chariot), guide or ride (a horse), propel (a boat), go or travel by any vehicle, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to cause to guide (two acc.), [Vop.]; to cause any one (acc.) to carry anything (acc.) on (loc.), [MBh.]; to cause to take in marriage, [ib.]; to cause to be conveyed by (instr.), [Ragh.]; [Rājat.]; to traverse (a road), [Ragh.]; to accomplish (a journey), [Megh.]; to employ, keep going or in work, [Mn. iii, 68]; [iv, 86]; to give, administer (see vāhita); to take in, deceive (see id.) : Desid. vivakṣati, °te Gr.: Intens. vanīvāhyáte, to carry hither and thither (cf. vanīvā́hana and vanīvāhitá); vāvahīti, to bear (a burden), [Subh.]; vāvahyate, vāvoḍhi Gr.
[cf. Gk. ὄχος for ϝοχος, ὀχέομαι; Lat. vehere, vehiculum; Slav. vesti; Lith. vèżti; Goth. gawigan; Germ. wëgan, bewegen; Eng. weigh.]
(ifc.; strong form vāh weak form ūh or uh, which with a preceding a coalesces into au; cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 64]; [iv, 1, 61]) carrying, drawing, bearing, holding (cf. anaḍ-uh, apsu-vah, indra-vah &c.).