yam : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xxiii, 15]) yácchati (Ved. also °te, and Ved. ep. yámati, °te; pf. yayāma, yeme; 2. sg. yayantha, 3. pl. yemúḥ, yemiré, [RV.] &c. &c.; 3. du. irreg. -yamatuḥ, [RV. v, 67, 1]; aor. áyān, áyamuh; Impv. yaṃsi, yandhí; Pot. yamyās, yamīmahi, [RV.]; áyāṃsam, ayāṃsi, áyaṃsta Subj. yaṃsat, °satas, °sate, [ib.]; [Br.]; 3. sg. -yámiṣṭa, [RV. v, 32, 7]; ayaṃsiṣam Gr.; fut. yantā, [ib.]; yaṃsyati, yamiṣyati, [Br.] &c. inf. yántum, yamitum, [ib.]; yántave, yámitavaí, [RV.]; ind.p. yatvā, yamitvā, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; yátya, [AV.]; [Br.]; -yamya, [GṛŚrS.]; -yámam, [RV.]; [Br.]), to sustain, hold, hold up, support (Ā. ‘one's self’; with loc. ‘to be founded on’), [RV.]; [Br.]; [ChUp.]; to raise, wield (a weapon &c.; Ā. with āyudhaiḥ, ‘to brandish weapons’), [RV.]; to raise, extend or hold (as a screen &c.) over (dat.), [RV.]; (Ā.) to extend one's self before (dat.), [AitBr.]; to raise (the other scale), weigh more, [ŚBr.]; to stretch out, expand, spread, display, show, [RV.]; to hold or keep in, hold back, restrain, check, curb, govern, subdue, control, [ib.] &c. &c.; to offer; confer, grant, bestow on (dat. or loc.), present with (instr.), [RV.] &c. &c.; (with mārgam), to make way for (gen.), [MBh.]; (with prati and abl.), to give anything in exchange for anything, [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 11]; (Ā.) to give one's self up to, be faithful to, obey (dat.), [RV.]; to raise, utter (a sound &c.), [ib.]; to fix, establish, [ib.]; (Ā.) to be firm, not budge, [RV.]; to catch fire, [TBr.] (Sch.) : Pass. yamyáte (aor. áyāmi), to be raised or lifted up or held back or restrained, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. yāmayati ([AV.]), yamayati ([Br.] &c.; °te, [MBh.]; aor. ayīyamat), to restrain, hold in, control, keep or put in order: Desid. yiyaṃsati, to wish to restrain &c., [Br.] : Intens. yaṃyamīti (see ud-√ yam) or yaṃyamyate ([Pāṇ. vii, 4, 85], Vārtt. 2, [Pat.]) [cf. Gk. ζημία, ‘restraint, punishment’.]

ya : the 1st semivowel (corresponding to the vowels i and ī, and having the sound of the English y, in Bengal usually pronounced j).

ya : m. (in prosody) a bacchic (˘ ¯ ¯), [Piṅg.]

ya : the actual base of the relative pronoun in declension [cf. yád and Gk. ὅς, ἥ, ὅ].

ya : m. (in some senses fr. √ 1. yā, only, [L.]) a goer or mover

ya : wind

ya : joining

ya : restraining

ya : fame

ya : a carriage (?)

ya : barley

ya : light

ya : abandoning

vai : (orig. identical with √ 2. vā) cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xxii, 24]) vā́yati, to become languid or weary or exhausted, [RV.] (śoṣaṇe, [Dhātup.]); to be deprived of (gen.), [RV. viii, 47, 6]; P. and (ep. also Ā.), to blow, [Āpast.]; [MBh.]

vai : vaí ind. a particle of emphasis and affirmation, generally placed after a word and laying stress on it (it is usually translatable by ‘indeed’, ‘truly’, ‘certainly’, ‘verily’, ‘just’ &c.; it is very rare in the [RV.]; more frequent in the [AV.], and very common in the Brāhmaṇas and in works that imitate their style; in the Sūtras it is less frequent and almost restricted to the combination yady u vai; in Manu, [MBh.] and the Kāvyas it mostly appears at the end of a line, and as a mere expletive. In [RV.] it is frequently followed by u in the combination vā́ u [both particles are separated, [v, 18, 3]] ; it is also preceded by u and various other particles, e.g. by íd, áha, utá; in the Brāhmaṇas it often follows ha, ha sma, eva; in later language api and tu. According to some it is also a vocative particle).

sūrya : sū́rya m. the sun or its deity (in the Veda the name Sūrya is generally distinguished from Savitṛ [q.v.], and denotes the most concrete of the solar gods, whose connection with the luminary is always present to the poet's mind ; in [Nir. vii, 5] he is regarded as one of the original Vedic triad, his place being in the sky, while that of Agni is on the earth, and that of Indra is in the atmosphere; ten hymns in the [RV.] are entirely in praise of Sūrya, e.g. [i, 50], [i, 115] &c., also, [AV. xiii, 2]; he moves through the sky in a chariot drawn by seven ruddy horses or mares [see saptāśva, harit, harid-aśva]; in the later mythology Sūrya is identified with Savitṛ as one of the 12 Ādityas or emblems of the Sun in the 12 months of the year, and his seven-horsed chariot is said to be driven by Aruṇa or the Dawn as its charioteer, who is represented without legs; the Sun, whether named Sūrya or Vivasvat, has several wives See sūryā below), [RV.] &c. &c. (cf. [IW. 11]; [16] &c.; [RTL. 341])

sūrya : a symbolical expression for the number ‘twelve’ (in allusion to the sun in the 12 signs of the zodiac), [Jyot.]; [Hcat.]

sūrya : the swallow-wort (either Calotropis or Asclepias Gigantea, = arka), [L.]

sūrya : N. of the son of Bali, [L.]

sūrya : of a Dānava, [VahniP.]

sūrya : of an astronomer (= sūrya-dāsa), [Cat.]

sūrya : epithet of Śiva, [MBh.]

sūrya : sū́rya mfn. solar (perhaps w.r. for saurya), [Jyot.][For cognate words See under 2. svár.]

sūrya : &c. See p. 1243, col. 1.

svarbhānu : svàr—bhānu (svàr-), m. N. of a demon supposed to eclipse the sun and the moon (in later language applied to Rāhu or the personified ascending node), [RV.] &c. &c.

svarbhānu : of a Kaśyapa, [VP.]

svarbhānu : of a son of Kṛṣṇa, [BhP.]

tamasā : (ā), f. N. of a river (falling into the Ganges below Pratiṣṭhāna), [MBh. iii, 14231]; [vi, 338]; [Hariv. 12828]; [R. i f.]; [iv, 40, 24]; [Ragh. ix, 16.]

tamas : támas n. darkness, gloom (also pl.), [RV.] (°maḥ práṇīta, ‘led into darkness’, deprived of the eye's light or sight, [i, 117, 17]) &c.

tamas : the darkness of hell, hell or a particular division of hell, [Mn. iv], [viii f.]; [VP. ii, 6, 4]; [MārkP. xii, 10]

tamas : the obscuration of the sun or moon in eclipses, attributed to Rāhu (also m., [L.]), [R.]; [VarBṛS. v, 44]; [VarBṛ. ii]; [VarYogay.]; [Sūryas.]

tamas : mental darkness, ignorance, illusion, error (in Sāṃkhya phil. one of the 5 forms of a-vidyā, [MBh. xiv, 1019]; [Sāṃkhyak.] &c.; one of the 3 qualities or constituents of everything in creation [the cause of heaviness, ignorance, illusion, lust, anger, pride, sorrow, dulness, and stolidity; sin, [L.]; sorrow, [Kir. iii]; see guṇa & cf. [RTL. p. 45]] [Mn. xii, 24 f.] and [38]; [Sāṃkhyak.] &c.), [RV. v, 31, 9]; [R. ii]; [Śak.]; [Rājat. v, 144]

tamas : N. of a son (of Śravas, [MBh. xiii, 2002]; of Dakṣa, [i], Sch.; of Pṛthu-śravas, [VP. iv, 12, 2])

tamas : [cf. timira; Lat. temere &c.]

tamas : támas , °sá, &c. See col. 1.

vyadh : cl. 4. P. ([Dhātup. xxvi, 72]) vídhyati (ep. also °te; pf. p. vivyādha, [Br.] &c.; 3. pl. vivyadhuḥ, [MBh.], vividhuḥ, [Up.]; Ā. vivyadhe, [MBh.]; p. vividhvás, [RV.]; aor. vyātsīḥ, [Br.]; Prec. vidhyāt Gr.; fut. veddhā, vetsyati, °te, [MBh.]; vyaddhā, vyatsyati Gr.; inf. veddhum, [MBh.]; -vidhe, [RV.]; ind.p. viḍḍhvā, -vidhya, [MBh.]), to pierce, transfix, hit, strike, wound, [RV.] &c. &c. ; (with sirām) to open a vein, bleed, [Suśr.]; to pelt with (instr.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; to inflict, attach to, affect with (acc. of pers. and instr. of thing), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [Up.]; to shake, wave, [MBh.]; (in astron.) to fix the position of a heavenly body, [Gol.]; to cling to (acc.), [ŚBr.] : Caus. vyādhayati or vyadhayati, (ep. also vedhayati; aor. avīvidhat or avivyadhat), to pierce, open (a vein), [MBh.]; [Suśr.]; to cause to pierce or perforate, [AitĀr.] : Desid. vivyatsati, to wish to affect or taint with (instr.), [ŚBr.] : Intens. vevidhyate or vāvyaddhi (?) Gr.

āsura : āsurá mf(I)n. (fr. asura), spiritual, divine, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]

āsura : belonging or devoted to evil spirits

āsura : belonging or relating to the Asuras, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [KātyŚr.]; [Prab.]; [Daś.] &c.

āsura : infernal, demoniacal

āsura : āsurá (as), m. an Asura or demon, [AV.]; [AitBr.]; [Pāṇ.]

āsura : a form of marriage (in which the bridegroom purchases the bride from her father and paternal kinsmen), [ĀśvGṛ. i, 6, 6]; [Mn. iii, 31] (cf. vivāha)

āsura : āsurá (śs), m. pl. the stars of the southern hemisphere, [Sūryas.] &c.

āsura : āsurá m. a prince of the warrior-tribe Asura, [Pāṇ.]

āsura : āsurá (am), n. blood

āsura : black salt, [L.]

āsura : mfn. belonging to Āsuri (below).

atri : átri m. (for at-tri, fr. √ ad), a devourer, [RV. ii, 8, 5]

atri : N. of a great Ṛṣi, author of a number of Vedic hymns

atri : (in astron.) one of the seven stars of the Great Bear

atri : pl. (atrayas) the descendants of Atri.

tam : cl. 4. tā́myati ([Pāṇ. vii, 3, 74]; rarely Ā. [R. ii, 63, 46]; [Gīt. v, 16]; pf. tatāma, [ŚBr. iv]; aor. Pass. atami, [Pāṇ. vii, 3, 34], [Kāś.]; Ved. inf. támitos, with ā́ preceding, ‘till exhaustion’, [TBr. i, 4, 4, 2]; [TāṇḍyaBr. xii]; [Lāṭy.]; [Āp.]; pf. Pass. p. -tāntá, q.v.) to gasp for breath (as one suffocating), choke, be suffocated, faint away, be exhausted, perish, be distressed or disturbed or perplexed, [RV. ii, 30, 7] (ná mā tamat [aor. subj.] ‘may I not be exhausted’), [Kāṭh.]; [TBr.] &c.; to stop (as breath), become immovable or stiff, [Suśr.]; [Mālatīm.]; [Amar.]; [Rājat. v, 344]; to desire (cf. 2. °ma, °mata), [Dhātup. xxvi, 93] : Caus. tamáyati (aor. Pass. atāmi, [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 93], [Kāś.]) to suffocate, deprive of breath, [ŚBr. iii, 3, 2, 19] and [8, 1, 15]; [KātyŚr. vi, 5, 18]; cf. á-tameru.

sa : the last of the three sibilants (it belongs to the dental class and in sound corresponds to s in sin).

sa : (in prosody) an anapest (˘ ˘ ¯)

sa : (in music) an abbreviated term for ṣaḍ-ja (see p. 1109, col. 2).

sa : m. (only [L.]) a snake

sa : air, wind

sa : a bird

sa : N. of Viṣṇu or Śiva

sa : n. knowledge

sa : meditation

sa : a carriage road

sa : a fence.

sa : mfn. (fr. √ san) procuring, bestowing (only ifc.; cf. palu-ṣá and priya-sá).

sa : sá the actual base for the nom. case of the 3rd pers. pron. tád, q.v. (occurring only in the nom. sg. mf. [sá or sás, sā], and in the Ved. loc. [sásmin, [RV. i, 152, 6]; [i, 174, 4]; [x, 95, 11]]; the final s of the nom. m. is dropped before all consonants [except before p in [RV. v, 2, 4], and before t in [RV. viii, 33, 16]] and appears only at the end of a sentence in the form of Visarga; occasionally blends with another vowel [as in saīṣaḥ]; and it is often for emphasis connected with another pron. as with aham, tvam, eṣa, ayam &c. [e.g. so 'ham, sa tvam, ‘I (or thou) that very person’; cf. under tád, p. 434], the verb then following in the 1st and 2nd pers. even if aham or tvam be omitted [e.g. sa tvā pṛcchāmi ‘I that very person ask you’, [BṛĀrUp.]; sa vai no brūhi ‘do thou tell us’, [ŚBr.]]; similarly, to denote emphasis, with bhavān [e.g. sa bhavān vijayāya pratiṣṭhatām, ‘let your Highness set out for victory’, [Śak.]]; it sometimes [and frequently in the Brāhmaṇas] stands as the first word of a sentence preceding a rel. pronoun or adv. such as ya, yad, yadi, yathā, ced; in this position may be used pleonastically or as a kind of ind., even where another gender or number is required [e.g. sa yadi sthāvarā āpo bhananti, ‘if those waters are stagnant’, [ŚBr.]]; in the Sāṃkhya , like eṣa, ka, and ya, is used to denote Puruṣa, ‘the Universal Soul’), [RV.] &c. &c.

sa : [cf. Zd. hō, hā; Gk. ὁ, ἡ.]

sa : ind. (connected with saha, sam, sama, and occasionally in [BhP.] standing for saha with instr.) an inseparable prefix expressing ‘junction’, ‘conjunction’, ‘possession’ (as opp. to a priv.), ‘similarity’, ‘equality’

sa : (and when compounded with nouns to form adjectives and adverbs it may be translated by ‘with’, ‘together or along with’, ‘accompanied by’, ‘added to’, ‘having’, ‘possessing’, ‘containing’, ‘having the same’ [cf. sa-kopa, sāgni, sa-bhāya, sa-droṇa, sa-dharman, sa-varṇa]; or it may = ‘ly’, as in sa-kopam, ‘angrily’, sopadhi, ‘fraudulently’), [RV.]; &c.

sa : [cf. Gk. ἁ in ἁπλοῦς; Lat. sim in simplex; sem in semel, semper Eng. same.]

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sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following)

sa : (to be similarly prefixed to the following) :

anu : mfn. = aṇu, q.v., [L.]

anu : ánu m. a non-Āryan man, [RV.]

anu : N. of a king (one of Yayāti's sons)

anu : of a non-Āryan tribe, [MBh.] &c.

anu : ánu ind. (as a prefix to verbs and nouns, expresses) after, along, alongside, lengthwise, near to, under, subordinate to, with. (When prefixed to nouns, especially in adverbial compounds), according to, severally, each by each, orderly, methodically, one after another, repeatedly. (As a separable preposition, with accusative) after, along, over, near to, through, to, towards, at, according to, in order, agreeably to, in regard to, inferior to, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 86.] (As a separable adverb) after, afterwards, thereupon, again, further, then, next.

vid : cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 56]) vetti (vidmahe, [Br.]; vedati, °te, [Up.]; [MBh.]; vidáti, °te, [AV.] &c.; vindati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; Impv. vidāṃ-karotu, [Pañcat.] [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 41]]; 1. sg. impf. avedam, 2. sg. avet or aves [[Pāṇ. viii, 2, 75]] [RV.] &c. &c.; 3. pl. avidus, [Br.] [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 109]]; avidan, [MBh.] &c.; pf. véda [often substituted for pr. vetti cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 4, 83]], 3. pl. vidús or vidre, [RV.]; viveda, [MBh.] &c.; vidāṃcakā́ra, [Br.] &c. [cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 38]; accord. to [Vop.] also vidām-babhūva]; aor. avedīt, [ib.]; vidām-akran, [TBr.]; fut. veditā́, [ŚBr.]; vettā, [MBh.] fut. vediṣyati, °te, [Br.]; [Up.]; vetsyati, °te, [MBh.] &c.; inf. véditum, °tos, [Br.]; vettum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. viditvā́, [Br.] &c.), to know, understand, perceive, learn, become or be acquainted with, be conscious of, have a correct notion of (with acc., in older, language also with gen.; with inf. = to know how to), [RV.] &c. &c. (viddhi yathā, ‘know that’; vidyāt, ‘one should know’, ‘it should be understood’; ya evam veda [in [Br.]], ‘who knows thus’, ‘who has this knowledge’); to know or regard or consider as, take for, declare to be, call (esp. in 3. pl. vidus, with two acc. or with acc. and nom. with iti, e.g. taṃ sthaviraṃ viduḥ, ‘they consider or call him aged’; rājarṣir iti māṃ viduḥ, ‘they consider me a Rājarṣi’), [Up.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to mind, notice, observe, remember (with gen. or acc.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; to experience, feel (acc. or gen.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to wish to know, inquire about (acc.), [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] : Caus. vedáyate (rarely °ti; aor. avīvidat; Pass. vedyate), to make known, announce, report, tell, [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to teach, explain, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [Nir.]; to recognize or regard as, take for (two acc.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to feel, experience, [ŚBr.]; [Mn.] &c.: Desid. of Caus. in vivedayiṣu, q.v.: Desid. vividiṣati or vivitsati, to wish to know or learn, inquire about (acc.), [ŚBr.]; &c. : Intens. vevidyate, vevetti Gr.

vid : [cf. Gk. εἶδον for ἐϝιδον, οἶδα for ϝοιδα = veda; Lat. videre; Slav. věděti; Goth. witan, wait; Germ. wizzan, wissen; Angl.Sax. wât; Eng. wot.]

vid : víd mfn. knowing, understanding, a knower (mostly ifc.; superl. vit-tama), [KaṭhUp.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

vid : víd m. the planet Mercury, [VarBṛS.] (cf. 2. jña)

vid : víd f. knowledge understanding, [RV.]; [KauṣUp.]

vid : (pl.), [Bhām.]

vid : (originally identical with √ 1. ) cl. 6. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxviii, 138]) vindáti, °te (Ved. also vitté, vidé; p. vidāná or vidāna [q.v.]; ep. 3. pl. vindate Pot. vindyāt, often = vidyāt; pf. vivéda [3. pl. vividus Subj. vividat], vividvás, 3. pl. vividre, vidré, [RV.] &c. &c.; p. vividvás, [RV.]; vividivas, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 68]; aor. ávidat, °data, [ib.] 3. [Ved. Subj. vidā́si, °dā́t; Pot. vidét, deta, [VS.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; sg. videṣṭa, [AV. ii, 36, 3]]; Ā. 1. sg. avitsi, [RV.]; [Br.]; fut. vettā, vediṣyati Gr.; vetsyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. vidé, [RV.]; vettum, [MBh.] &c.; véttave, [AV.]; °ttavai [?] and °tos, [Br.]; ind.p. vittvā́, [AV.]; [Br.]; -vidya, [Br.] &c.), to find, discover, meet or fall in with, obtain, get, acquire, partake of, possess, [RV.] &c. &c. (with diśas, to find out the quarters of the sky, [MBh.]) ; to get or procure for (dat.), [RV.]; [ChUp.]; to seek out, look for, attend to, [RV.] &c. &c.; to feel, experience, [Cāṇ.]; to consider as, take for (two acc.), [Kāv.]; to come upon, befall, seize, visit, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; to contrive, accomplish, perform, effect, produce, [RV.]; [ŚBr.]; (Ā. mc. also P.) to take to wife, marry (with or scil. bhāryām), [RV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to find (a husband), marry (said of a woman), [AV.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; to obtain (a son, with or scil. sutam), [BhP.] : Pass. or Ā. vidyáte (ep. also °ti; p. vidyamāna [q.v.]; aor. avedi), to be found, exist, be, [RV.] &c. &c.; (esp. in later language) vidyate, ‘there is, there exists’, often with na, ‘there is not’; with bhoktum, ‘there is something to eat’; followed by a fut., ‘is it possible that?’, [Pāṇ. iii, 3, 146], Sch.; yathā-vidé, ‘as it happens’ i.e. ‘as usual’, ‘as well as possible’, [RV. i, 127, 4] &c. : Caus. vedayati, to cause to find &c., [MBh.] : Desid. vividiṣati or vivitsati, °te Gr. (cf. vivitsita) : Intens. vevidyate, vevetti, [ib.] (for p. vévidat and °dāna See vi- and saṃ√ vid).

vid : (ifc.) finding, acquiring, procuring (see anna-, aśva-, ahar-vid &c.)

vid : cl. 7. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxix, 13]) vintte, to consider as, take for (two acc.), [Bhaṭṭ.]

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).

anya : ánya (3), am, n. inexhaustibleness (as of the milk of cows), [AV. xii, 1, 4] (cf. ányā.).

anya : anyá as, ā, at other, different

anya : other than, different from, opposed to (abl. or in comp.)

anya : another

anya : another person

anya : one of a number

anya : anya anya or eka anya, the one, the other

anya : anyac ca, and another, besides, moreover

anya : [cf. Zend anya; Armen. ail; Lat. alius; Goth. aljis, Theme alja; Gk. ἄλλος for ἄλϳο-ς; cf. also ἔνιοι].

śak : cl. 5. P. ([Dhātup. xxvii, 15]) śaknoti (pf. śaśā́ka, śekúḥ, [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. áśakat, [AV.] &c. [Ved. also Pot. śakeyam and śakyām; Impv. śagdhi, śaktam]; fut. śaktā, or śakitā Gr. ; śakṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; śakiṣyate, °te Gr.; inf. -śaktave, [RV.]; śaktum or śakitum Gr.), to be strong or powerful, be able to or capable of or competent for (with acc. dat. or loc., rarely acc. of a verbal noun, or with an inf. in am or tum; or with pr.p.; e.g. with grahaṇāya or grahaṇe, ‘to be able to seize’; vadha-nirṇekam a-śaknuvan, ‘unable to atone for slaughter’; śakéma vājíno yámam, ‘may we be able to guide horses’; vīkṣitum na śaknoti, ‘he is not able to see’; pūrayan na śaknoti, ‘he is not able to fill’), [RV.] &c. &c. (in these meanings ep. also śakyati, °te, with inf. in tuṃ cf. [Dhātup. xxvi, 78]); to be strong or exert one's self for another (dat.), aid, help, assist, [RV. vii, 67, 5]; [68, 8] &c.; to help to (dat. of thing), [ib.] [ii, 2, 12]; [iv, 21, 10] &c. : Pass. śakyate (ep. also °ti), to be overcome or subdued, succumb, [MBh.]; to yield, give way, [ib.]; to be compelled or caused by any one (instr.) to (inf.), [ib.]; to be able or capable or possible or practicable (with an inf. in pass. sense, e.g. tat kartuṃ śakyate, ‘that can be done’; sometimes with pass. p., e.g. na śakyate vāryamāṇaḥ, ‘he cannot be restrained’; or used impers., with or with out instr., e.g. yadi [tvayā] śakyate, ‘if it can be done by thee’, ‘if it is possible’), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c. : Caus. śākayati (aor. aśīśakat), Gr.: Desid. See √ śikṣ.

śak : , [Cf., accord. to some, Gk. ὄπις, ἀοσσητήρ; Germ. Hag, Hecke, hegen; behagen.]