(cf. √ 2. yu) cl. 7. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxix, 7]) yunákti, yuṅkté (ep. also yuñjati, °te; Ved. yojati, °te; yuje, yujmahe, 3. pl. yujata Impv. yukṣvá; Pot. yuñjīyāt, [R.]; pf. yuyója, yuyujé, [RV.] &c. &c., 3. sg. yuyojate, [RV. viii, 70, 7]; aor. Class. P. ayokṣīt, ayaukṣīt or ayujat; Ved. also Ā. áyuji; Ved. and Class. ayukṣi, ayukta; fut. yoktā́, [Br.]; yokṣyati, [ib.]; °te, [AV.] &c. &c.; inf. yoktum, [Br.]; yujé, [RV.]; ind.p. yuktvā́, [ib.] &c. &c.; yuktvā́ya, [RV.]; [Br.]; -yujya, [MBh.] &c.), to yoke or join or fasten or harness (horses or a chariot), [RV.] &c. &c.; to make ready, prepare, arrange, fit out, set to work, use, employ, apply, [ib.]; to equip (an army), [R.]; to offer, perform (prayers, a sacrifice), [BhP.]; to put on (arrows on a bow-string), [MBh.]; to fix in, insert, inject (semen), [ŚBr.]; to appoint to, charge or intrust with (loc. or dat.), [MBh.]; [VP.]; to command, enjoin, [BhP.]; to turn or direct or fix or concentrate (the mind, thoughts &c.) upon (loc.), [TS.] &c. &c.; (P. Ā.) to concentrate the mind in order to obtain union with the Universal Spirit, be absorbed in meditation (also with yogam), [MaitrUp.]; [Bhag.] &c.; to recollect, recall, [MBh.]; to join, unite, connect, add, bring together, [RV.] &c. &c. (Ā. to be attached, cleave to, [Hariv.]); to confer, or bestow anything (acc.) upon (gen. or loc.), [BhP.]; [MārkP.] (Ā. with acc., to become possessed of [MBh.]; with ātmani, to use for one's self, enjoy, [Mn. vi, 12]); to bring into possession of, furnish or endow with (instr.), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; to join one's self to (acc.), [RV.]; (in astron.) to come into union or conjunction with (acc.), [VarBṛS.] : Pass. yujyáte (ep. also °ti; aor. áyoji), to be yoked or harnessed or joined &c., [RV.] &c. &c.; to attach one's self to (loc.), [Hit.]; to be made ready or prepared for (dat.), [Bhag.]; to be united in marriage, [Gaut.]; [MBh.]; to be endowed with or possessed of (instr. with or without saha), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; (in astron.) to come into conjunction with (instr.), [VarBṛS.]; to accrue to, fall to the lot of (gen.), [Pañcat.]; to be fit or proper or suitable or right, suit anything (instr.), be fitted for (loc.), belong to or suit any one (loc. or gen.), deserve to be (nom.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; (with na) not to be fit or proper &c. for (instr.) or to (inf., also with pass. sense = ‘ought not to be’), [Kāv.]; [Kathās.]; [Pañcat.] : Caus. yojayati (mc. also °te; aor. ayūyujat; Pass. yojyate), to harness, yoke with (instr.), put to (loc.), [Kauś.]; [MBh.] &c.; to equip (an army), draw up (troops), [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; to use, employ, set to work, apply, undertake, carry on, perform, accomplish, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to urge or impel to, [Bhartṛ.]; [Prab.]; to lead towards, help to (loc.), [Sarvad.]; to set (snares, nets &c.), [MBh.]; [Hit.]; to put or fix on (esp. arrows), [ĀśvGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c.; to aim (arrows) at (loc.), [R.]; to fasten on or in, attack, adjust, add, insert, [Kauś.]; [Kāv.]; [Pur.]; (with manas, ātmānam &c.) to direct the thoughts to, concentrate or fix the mind upon (loc.), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]; to join, unite, connect, combine, bring or put together (also = write, compose), [R.]; [Var.]; [Rājat.] &c.; to encompass, embrace, [MBh.]; to put in order, arrange, repair, restore, [Rājat.]; to endow or furnish or provide with (instr.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to mix (food) with (instr.), [Mn. vii, 218]; to confer anything upon (loc.), [BhP.]; (in astron.) to ascertain or know (jānāti) the conjunction of the moon with an asterism (instr.), [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 26], Vārtt. 11 [Pat.]; (Ā.) to think little of, esteem lightly, despise, [Vop.] in [Dhātup. xxxiii, 36] : Desid. yuyukṣati, to wish to harness or yoke or join &c.; to wish to appoint or institute, [MBh.]; to wish to fix or aim (arrows), [BhP.]; (Ā.) to wish to be absorbed in meditation, devout, [Bhaṭṭ.] : Intens. yoyujyate, yoyujīti or yoyokti Gr.
[cf. Gk. ζεύγνυμι, ζυγόν; Lat. jungere, jugum; Lith. jùngus; Slav. igo; Goth. juk; Germ. joh, Joch; Angl.Sax. geoc; Eng. yoke.]
yúj mfn. (mostly ifc.; when uncompounded, the strong cases have a nasal, e.g. nom. yuṅ, yuñjau, yuñjas, but aśva-yuk &c., [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 71]) joined, yoked, harnessed, drawn by, [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. aśva-, hari-, hayottama-yuj)
furnished or provided or filled with, affected by, possessed of (instr., mostly comp.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
bestowing, granting (e.g. kāma-yuj, ‘granting wishes’), [Hariv.]
exciting, an exciter (e.g. yuṇ bhiyaḥ, an exciter of fear), [Bhaṭṭ.]
being in couples or pairs, even (not odd or separate), [Lāṭy.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
yúj m. a yoke-fellow, companion, comrade, associate, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]
a sage who devotes his time to abstract contemplation, [W.]
a pair, couple, the number ‘two’, [Pañcar.]
du. the two Aśvins, [L.]
(in astron.) the zodiacal sign Gemini.