mā : f. a mother, [L.]

mā : measure, [L.]

mā : authority (-tva n.), [Nyāyam.]

mā : light, [L.]

mā : knowledge, [L.]

mā : binding, fettering, [L.]

mā : death, [L.]

mā : a woman's waist, [L.]

mā : mā́ ind. (causing a following ch to be changed to cch, [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 74]) not, that not, lest, would that not, [RV.] &c. &c.

mā : a particle of prohibition or negation = Gk. μή, most commonly joined with the Subjunctive i.e. the augmentless form of a past tense (esp. of the aor., e.g. mā́ no vadhīr indra, do not slay us, O Indra, [RV.]; mā bhaiṣīḥ or mā bhaiḥ, do not be afraid, [MBh.]; tapovana-vāsinām uparodho mā bhūt, let there not be any disturbance of the inhabitants of the sacred grove, [Śak.]; often also with sma, e.g. mā sma gamaḥ, do not go, [Bhag.] cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 175]; [176]; in the sense of ‘that not, lest’ also yathā mā, e.g. yathā mā vo mṛtyuḥ pari-vyatkā iti, that death may not disturb you, [PraśnaUp.]; or mā yathā, e.g. mā bhūt kālātyayo yathā, lest there be any loss of time, [R.]; mā na with aor. Subj. = Ind. without a negative, e.g. mā dviṣo na vadhīr mama, do slay my enemies, [Bhaṭṭ.] cf. [Vām. v, 1, 9]; rarely with the augmentless impf. with or without sma, e.g. mainam abhibhāṣathāḥ, do not speak to him, [R.]; mā sma karot, let him not do it, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 74], Sch.; exceptionally also with the Ind. of the aor., e.g., mā kālas tvām aty-agāt, may not the season pass by thee, [MBh.]; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 75], Sch.)

mā : or with the Impv. (in [RV.] only [viii, 103, 6], mā no hṛṇītām [[SV.] hṛṇītās] agníḥ, may Agni not be angry with us; but very often in later language, e.g. mā kranda do not cry, [MBh.]; gaccha vā mā vā, you can go or not go, [ib.]; ripur ayam mā jāyatām, may not this foe arise, [Śāntiś.]; also with sma, e.g. mā sma kiṃ cid vaco vada do not speak a word, [MBh.])

mā : or with the Pot. (e.g. mā yamam paśyeyam, may I not see Yama; esp. mābhujema in [RV.])

mā : or with the Prec. (only once in mā bhūyāt, may it not be, [R. [B.] ii, 75, 45])

mā : or sometimes with the fut. (= that not, lest, e.g. mā tvāṃ śapsye, lest I curse thee, [MBh.] cf. [Vop. xxv, 27])

mā : or with a participle (e.g. mā jīvanyo duḥkhadagdho jīvati, he ought not to live who lives consumed by pain, [Pañcat.]; gataḥ sa mā, he cannot have gone, [Kathās.]; maīvamprārthyam, it must not be so requested, [BhP.])

mā : sometimes for the simple negative na (e.g. katham mā bhūt, how may it not be, [Kathās.]; mā gantum arhasi, thou oughtest not to go, [R.]; mā bhūd āgataḥ, can he not i.e. surely he must have arrived, [Amar.])

mā : occasionally without a verb (e. g. mā śabdaḥ or śabdam, do not make a noise, [Hariv.]; mā nāma rakṣiṇaḥ, may it not be the watchmen, [Mṛcch.]; mā bhavantam analaḥ pavano vā, may not fire or wind harm thee, [Vām. v, 1, 14]; esp. = not so, e.g. mā prātṛda, not so, O Pr°, [ŚBr.]; in this meaning also mā mā, mā maivam, mā tāvat)

mā : in the Veda often with u (mó) = and not, nor (e.g. mā́ maghónaḥ pári khyatam mó asmā́kam ṛ́ṣṇām, do not forget the rich lords nor us the poets, [RV. v, 65, 6]; and then usually followed by ṣú = sú, e.g. mo ṣú ṇaḥ nírṛtir vadhīt, let not N° on any account destroy us, [i, 38, 6])

mā : in [ŚBr.] sma mā — mó sma = neither — nor (in a prohibitive sense).

mā : cl. 3. P. mímāti (accord. to [Dhātup. xxv, 6] Ā. mimīte, [SV.] mimeti; Pot. mimīyat, [Kāṭh.]; pf., mimāya; aor. ámīmet Subj. mīmayat; inf. mā́tavaí), to sound, bellow, roar, bleat (esp. said of cows, calves, goats &c.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.] : Intens., only pr. p. mémyat, bleating (as a goat), [RV. i, 162, 2.]

mā : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 54]) māti; cl. 3. Ā. ([xxv, 6]) mímīte; cl. 4. Ā. ([xxvi, 33]) māyate (Ved. and ep. also mimāti Pot. mimīyāt Impv., mimīhi; Pot. mimet, [Br.]; pf. mamaú, mame, mamiré, [RV.]; aor. ámāsi Subj. mā́sātai, [AV.]; amāsīt Gr.; Prec. māsīṣṭa, meyāt, [ib.]; fut. mātā; māsyati, māsyate, [ib.]; inf. -mé, -maí, [RV.]; mātum, [Br.]; ind.p. mitvā́, -mā́ya, [RV.] &c. &c.), to measure, mete out, mark off, [RV.] &c. &c.; to measure across = traverse, [RV.]; to measure (by any standard), compare with (instr.), [Kum.]; (māti) to correspond in measure (either with gen., ‘to be large or long enough for’, [BhP.]; or with loc., ‘to find room or be contained in’, [Inscr.]; [Kāv.]; or with na and instr., ‘to be beside one's self with’, [Vcar.]; [Kathās.]); to measure out, apportion, grant, [RV.]; to help any one (acc.) to anything (dat.), [ib.], [i, 120, 9]; to prepare, arrange, fashion, form, build, make, [RV.]; to show, display, exhibit (amimīta, ‘he displayed or developed himself’, [iii, 29, 11]), [ib.]; (in phil.) to infer, conclude; to pray (yācñā-karmaṇi), [Naigh. iii, 19] : Pass. mīyáte (aor. amāyi); to be measured &c., [RV.]; &c. Caus., māpayati, °te (aor. amīmapat, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 93], Vārtt. 2 [Pat.]), to cause to be measured or built, measure, build, erect, [Up.]; [GṛS.]; [MBh.] &c.: Desid. mitsati, °te, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 54]; [58] (cf. nir-√ mā) : Intens. memīyate, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 66.]

mā : [cf. Zd. mā; Gk. μέτρον, μετρέω; Lat. mētior, mensus, mensura; Slav. měra; Lith. mėrà.]

mā : f. See under ma, p. 771, col. 2.

aham : ahám nom. sg., ‘I’, [RV.] &c.

aham : = ahaṃkaraṇa, q.v., (hence declinable gen. ahamas, &c.), [BhP.]

aham : [Zd. azem; Gk. ἐγώ; Goth. ik; Mod. Germ. ich; Lith. asz; Slav. az].

ayam : ayám this one. See idám.

maghavan : maghá—van (maghá-), mfn. (middle stem maghá-vat [which may be used throughout], weak stem maghón; nom. m. maghávā or °vān f. maghónī or maghavatī [[Vop.]]; n. maghavat; nom. pl. m. once maghónas; cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 128]; [133]), possessing or distributing gifts, bountiful, liberal, munificent (esp. said of Indra and other gods, but also of institutors of sacrifices who pay the priests and singers), [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]; [ŚBr.]; [Up.]

maghavan : maghá—van m. N. of Indra (also pl. °vantaḥ), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

maghavan : of a Vyāsa or arranger of the Purāṇas, [Cat.]

maghavan : of a Dānava, [Hariv.]

maghavan : of the 3rd Cakra-vartin in Bhārata, [L.]

pṛtsu : loc. of pṛt in comp.

pṛt : f. (only in loc. pl. pṛtsú, in one place [[i, 129, 4]] pṛtsúṣu, [RV.]; but according to [Vop.] also in other cases, viz. pṛtas, pṛtā, pṛdbhyām) battle, contest, strife.

aṃhas : áṃhas n. anxiety, trouble, [RV.] &c.

aṃhas : sin, [L.]

aṃhas : [cf. aghá, ā́gas; Gk. ἄχνυμαι, ἄχος, ἄγος.]

nahi : na—hí See na-hí.

nahi : na-hí (ná-hí, [MaitrS.] & [ŚBr.]) ind. (g. cādi) for not, surely not, by no means, not at all (often strengthened by other particles, as aṅgá, nú, sma), [RV.]; &c. (nahikam, g. cādi).

antaḥ : antáḥ (for antár See col. 2).

anta : ánta m. end, limit, boundary, term

anta : end of a texture

anta : end, conclusion

anta : end of life, death, destruction (in these latter senses sometimes neut.)

anta : a final syllable, termination

anta : last word of a compound

anta : pause, settlement, definite ascertainment, certainty

anta : whole amount

anta : border, outskirt (e.g. grāmānte, in the outskirts of the village)

anta : nearness, proximity, presence

anta : inner part, inside

anta : condition, nature

anta : ánta mfn. near, handsome, agreeable, [L.]

anta : [cf. Goth. andeis, Theme andja; Germ. Ende; Eng. end: with are also compared the Gk. ἄντα, ἀντί; Lat. ante; the Goth. anda in anda-vaurd, &c.; and the Germ. ent, e.g. in entsagen].

śavas : śávas n. (orig. ‘swelling, increase’) strength, power, might, superiority, prowess, valour, heroism (°sā ind. mightily, with might), [RV.]; [AV.]

śavas : water, [L.]

śavas : a dead body (= -śava), [L.]

śavas : śávas m. N. of a teacher, [Cat.]

parīṇaśe : parī—ṇáśe Vedic inf. (√ 1. naś) to attain or to be attained, [RV. i, 54, 1]

naś : or naṃś cl. 1. P. Ā. náśati, °te (aor. ānat, -naṭ; -anaṣṭām, -nak [in pra-ṇak] Impv. -nákṣi; Ā. 1. sg. náṃśi Prec. naśīmahi; inf. -náśe), to reach, attain, meet with, find, [RV.] [cf. aś and nakṣ; Lat. nac-tus sum; Lith. nèszti; Slav. nesti; Goth. ganôhs; Germ. genug; Angl.Sax. genôh; Eng. enough.]

naś : cl. 4. P. ([Dhātup. xxvi, 85]) náśyati (rarely °te and cl. 1. P. náśati, °te; pf. nanāśa, 3. pl. neśur; aor. anaśat, [MBh.] &c.; aneśat, néśat, [RV.]; [Br.] [cf. [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 120]]; fut. naśiṣyati, [AV.]; naṅkṣyati, °te [cond. anaṅkṣyata] [MBh.]; naśitā, [ib.]; naṃṣṭā, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 45]; naṅgdhā, [Vop.]; inf. naśitum, naṃṣṭum Gr.; ind.p. naśitvā, naṣṭvā, naṃṣṭvā, [ib.]) to be lost, perish, disappear, be gone, run away, [RV.] &c. &c.; to come to nothing, be frustrated or unsuccessful, [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. nāśáyati, ep. also °te (aor. -anīnaśat; dat. inf. -nāśayadhyai, [RV.]) to cause to be lost or disappear, drive away, expel, remove, destroy, efface, [RV.] &c. &c.; to lose (also from memory), give up, [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; [Pañc.]; to violate, deflower (a girl), [Daś.]; [Kull.]; to extinguish (a fire), [BhP.]; to disappear (in mā nīnaśah and °naśuḥ), [MBh.] : Desid. ninaśiṣati or ninaṅkṣati, [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 60]; [2, 45] (cf. ninaṅkṣu); Desid. of Caus. nināśayiṣati, to wish to destroy, [Daś.] : Intens. nānaśyate or nānaṃṣṭi Gr.

naś : [cf. Gk. νεκ-ρός; Lat. nex, nocere].

naś : mfn. perishing (in jīva-, q.v.)

krand : cl. 1. P. Ā. krándati, krandate (v.l. kradate fr. √ krad, [Dhātup.]; Subj. krándat; impf. krandat and ákrandat; aor. 2. sg. kradas, cakradas, and ákrān, 3. sg. akrān and ákrān; akrandīt, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 65], [Kāś.]; p. krándat), to neigh (as a horse), roar (metaphorically applied to the clouds and to wind and water), [RV.]; [VS.]; [ŚBr. vi]; to creak (as a wheel), [ŚBr. xi]; to sound, make a noise, [Ratnāv.]; to cry piteously, weep, lament, grieve, be confused with sorrow, [RV. x, 95, 13]; [MBh.] &c.; to call out piteously to any one (acc.), [Kathās.] (perf. cakranda), [MārkP.] : Caus. krandayati (aor. ácikradat, 3. pl. °dan), to cause to roar, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]; to cause to weep or lament, [Suśr.]; to roar, rave, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]; to neigh after (acc.), [RV. ix, 67, 4] and [x, 96, 10] : Intens. P. kánikrantti (Ā. °ntte, [AdbhBr.]; p. kánikradat, once kánikrat, [RV. ix, 63, 20]; p. Ā. kanikradyámana, [ŚBr. vi]), to neigh, roar, rave, cry out, [RV.]; [AV.]; to creak, crackle, [RV.];

krand : [cf. Goth. grēta, ‘to lament’.]

nadī : (ī), f. See nadī́.

nadī : nadī́ f. flowing water, a river (commonly personified as a female; but See nadá above), [RV.] &c. &c. (ifc. nadikā; cf. ku-nadikā and giri-; ind. -nadi; cf. upa-nadi [beside -nadam, fr. nadá, [Pāṇ. v, 4, 110]])

nadī : N. of 2 kinds of metre, [Col.]

nadī : of partic. fem. stems ending in ī or ū (as itself), [Pāṇ. i, 4, 3], &c.

vanā : vánā f. the piece of wood used for kindling fire by attrition (= araṇi, q.v.; sometimes personified), [RV. iii, 13]

vana : vána n. (once m., [R. v, 50, 2]; for 2. See p. 919, col. 1) a forest, wood, grove, thicket, quantity of lotuses or other plants growing in a thick cluster (but in older language also applied to a single tree), [RV.] &c. &c.

vana : plenty, abundance, [R.]; [Kathās.]

vana : a foreign or distant land, [RV. vii, 1, 19] (cf. araṇya)

vana : wood, timber, [RV.]

vana : a wooden vessel or barrel (for the Soma juice), [RV.] (?)

vana : a cloud (as the vessel in the sky), [ib.]

vana : (prob.) the body of a carriage, [RV. viii, 34, 18]

vana : water, [Naigh. i, 12]

vana : a fountain, spring, [L.]

vana : abode, [Nalod.]

vana : Cyperus Rotundus, [VarBṛS.]

vana : = raśmi, a ray of light, [Naigh. i, 4]

vana : (prob.) longing, earnest desire, [KenUp.]

vana : vána m. N. of a son of Uśīnara, [BhP.]

vana : of one of the 10 orders of mendicants founded by Śaṃkarācārya (the members of which affix to their names, cf. rārmendra-v°), [W.]

vana : ind. g. cādi.

kathā : f. (for 2. See col. 3) conversation, speech, talking together, [ĀśvGṛ.]; [MBh.]; [Mn.] &c.

kathā : talk, mention

kathā : (kā kathā [with gen. or more commonly with loc. and sometimes with prati], what should one say of? how should one speak of? e.g. eko 'pi kṛcchrād varteta bhūyasāṃ tu kathaiva kā, even one person would live with difficulty, what should one say of many? i.e. how much more many? [Kathās. iv, 123]; kā kathā bāṇa-saṃdhāne, what mention of fitting the arrow? i.e. what necessity for fitting the arrow? [Śak. 53 a])

kathā : story, tale, fable, [MBh.]; [R.]; [Hit.] &c.

kathā : a feigned story, tale (as one, of the species of poetical composition), [Sāh. 567]; [Kāvyād.]

kathā : Story (personified), [Kathās.]

kathā : (in log.) discussion, disputation, [Sarvad.]

kathā : kathā́ ind. (for 1. See col. 1) (Ved. for kathám, [Pāṇ. v, 3, 26]) how? whence? why? [RV.]; [AV. viii, 1, 16]; [TS.] &c.

kathā : (yathā́ kathā́ ca, in any way whatsoever, [ŚBr. iv])

kathā : sometimes merely a particle of interrogation (e.g. kathā́ śṛṇoti … índraḥ, does Indra hear? [RV. iv, 23, 3]; kathā́-kathā́, whether-or? [TS. ii, 6, 1, 7]).

na : the dental nasal (found at the beginning of words and before or after dental consonants as well as between vowels; subject to conversion into ṇa, [Pāṇ. viii, 4, 1]-[39]).

na : ná ind. not, no, nor, neither, [RV.] (nā, [x, 34, 8]) &c. &c. (as well in simple negation as in wishing, requesting and commanding, except in prohibition before an Impv. or an augmentless aor. [cf. 1. mā]; in successive sentences or clauses either simply repeated, e.g. [Mn. iv, 34]; or strengthened by another particle, esp. at the second place or further on in the sentence, e.g. by u [cf. no], utá, api, cāpi, vā, vāpi or atha vā, [RV. i, 170, 1]; [151, 9]; [Nal. iii, 24], &c.; it may even be replaced by ca, vā, api ca, api vā, &c. alone, as, [Mn. ii, 98]; [Nal. i, 14], &c.; often joined with other particles, beside those mentioned above esp. with a following tu, tv eva, tv eva tu, ced, q.v., khalu, q.v., ha [cf. g. cādi and [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 31]] &c.; before round or collective numbers and after any numeral in the instr. or abl. it expresses deficiency, e.g. ekayā na viṃśati, not 20 by 1 i.e. 19 [ŚBr.]; pañcabhir na catvāri śatāni, 395 [ib.]; with another or an a priv. it generally forms a strong affirmation [cf. [Vām. v, 1, 9]] e.g. neyaṃ na vakṣyati, she will most certainly declare, [Śak. iii, 9]; nādaṇḍyo 'sti, he must certainly be punished, [Mn. viii, 335]; it may also, like a, form compounds, [Vām. v, 2, 13] [cf. below])

na : that not, lest, for fear lest (with Pot.), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Daś.] &c.

na : like, as, as it were (only in Veda and later artificial language, e.g. gauro na tṛṣitaḥ piba, drink like [lit. ‘not’ i.e. ‘although not being’] a thirsty deer; in this sense it does not coalesce metrically with a following vowel).

na : [cf. Gk. νη-; Lat. ně-; Angl.Sax. ne, ‘not’; Engl. no, &c.]

na : mfn. ([L.]) thin, spare

na : vacant, empty

na : identical

na : unvexed, unbroken

na : m. band, fetter

na : jewel, pearl

na : war

na : gift

na : welfare

na : N. of Buddha

na : N. of Gaṇeśa

na : = prastuta

na : = dviraṇḍa (?)

kṣoṇi : f. (= °ṇī) the earth, [BhP. iv, 21, 35]

kṣoṇi : (áyas), f. pl., see kṣoṇá.

bhiyas : bhiyás &c. See p. 758, col. 1.

bhiyas : bhiyás m. fear, apprehension (only acc. and instr.), [RV.] (cf. bhiyáse under √ 1. bhī).

sam : or stam cl. 1. P. samati or stamati, to be disturbed (accord. to some ‘to be undisturbed’; cf. √ śam), [Dhātup. xix, 82]; cl. 10. P. samayati or stamayati, to be agitated or disturbed, [Vop.]

sam : sám ind. (connected with 7. sa and sama, and opp. to 3. vi, q.v.) with, together with, along with, together, altogether (used as a preposition or prefix to verbs and verbal derivatives, like Gk. σύν, Lat. con, and expressing ‘conjunction’, ‘union’, ‘thoroughness’, ‘intensity’, ‘completeness’ e.g. saṃ√ yuj, ‘to join together’; saṃ-√ dhā, ‘to place together’; saṃ-dhi, ‘placing together’; saṃ-√ tap, ‘to consume utterly by burning’; sam-uccheda, ‘destroying altogether, complete destruction’; in Ved. the verb connected with it has sometimes to be supplied, e.g. ā́po agním yaśásaḥ sáṃ hí pūrvī́ḥ, ‘for many glorious waters surrounded Agni’; it is sometimes prefixed to nouns in the sense of sama, ‘same’; cf. samartha), [RV.] &c.;

ārata : ā-rata &c. See ā-√ ram.

ārata : ā-rata mfn. ceased, quiet, gentle

ārata : ā-rata n. a kind of coitus, [Mall.] on [Kir. v, 23].

ṛ : the seventh vowel of the Sanskṛt alphabet and peculiar to it (resembling the sound of ri in merrily).

ṛ : ind. an interjection expressing laughter, [L.]

ṛ : a particle implying abuse, [L.]

ṛ : a sound inarticulate or reiterated as in stammering, [W.]

ṛ : m. heaven, [L.]

ṛ : f. N. of Aditi, [L.]

ṛ : cl. 1. 3. 5.P. ṛcchati, iyarti, ṛṇoti, and ṛṇvati (only Ved.); āra, ariṣyati, ārat, and ārṣīt, to go, move, rise, tend upwards, [RV.]; [Nir.] &c.; to go towards, meet with, fall upon or into, reach, obtain, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [ChUp.]; [MBh.] &c.; to fall to one's share, occur, befall (with acc.), [RV.]; [AitBr.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.] &c.; to advance towards a foe, attack, invade, [ŚBr.]; [MBh.]; [Mn.]; to hurt, offend, [ŚBr. vii]; to move, excite, erect, raise, (íyarti vā́cam, he raises his voice, [RV. ii, 42, 2]; stómān iyarmi, I sing hymns, [RV. i, 116, 1]), [RV.]; [AV. vi, 22, 3] : Caus. arpayati, to cause to move, throw, cast, [AV. x, 9, 1]; [Ragh.] &c.; to cast through, pierce, [AV.]; to put in or upon, place, insert, fix into or upon, fasten, [RV.]; [Śāk.]; [Kum.]; [Bhag.] &c.; to place on, apply, [Kathās.]; [Ratnāv.]; [Ragh.] &c.; to direct or turn towards, [R.]; [Bhag.] &c.; to deliver up, surrender, offer, reach over, present, give, [Yājñ.]; [Pañcat.]; [Vikr.] &c.; to give back, restore, [Mn. viii, 191]; [Yājñ.]; [Śak.] &c.: Ved. Intens. alarti, [RV. viii, 48, 8]; (2. sg. alarṣi, [RV. viii, 1, 7]; [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 65]); to move or go towards with speed or zeal: Class. Intens. Ā. arāryate ([Pāṇ. vii, 4, 30]), to wander about, hasten towards, [Bhaṭṭ.]; [Pat.], [Kāś.];

ṛ : [cf. Gk. ὄρ-νυ-μι, ἐρ-έ-της, ἀρό-ω, &c. : Zend √ ir : Lat. or-ior, re-mus, aro : Goth. ar-gan : Angl.Sax. ār : Old High Germ. ruo-dar, ar-an : Lith. ir-ti, ‘to row’; ar-ti, ‘to plough’.]