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].

samasya : sam-asya mfn. to be thrown or put together or compounded or combined, [W.]

samasya : to be made entire or complete, [ib.]

sama : mfn. (connected with 7. sa and with 2. samá and samāna; cf. samaha, used as pron.: declined like sarva, e.g. samasmai, [RV. vi, 51, 6]) any, every, [RV.]

sama : [cf. Gk. ἁμός, ἀμός; Goth. suma; Angl.Sax. sum; Eng. some.]

sama : samá mf(A/)n. (prob. originally identical with prec.; cf. samāna) even, smooth, flat, plain, level, parallel (karṇa-s°, ‘on a level with the ear’; bhūmi- or bhūmeḥ samaṃ-√ kṛ, ‘to make level with the earth’), [RV.] &c. &c.

sama : same, equal, similar, like, equivalent, like to or identical or homogeneous with (instr., e.g. mayā sama, ‘like to me’; or gen., rarely abl.), like in or with regard to anything (instr. gen. loc., or -tas, or comp.; samaṃ-√ kṛ, ‘to make equal, balance’), [ib.]

sama : always the same, constant, unchanged, fair, impartial towards (loc. or gen.), [ib.]

sama : even (not ‘odd’), a pair, [VarBṛS.]

sama : having the right measure, regular, normal, right, straight (samaṃ-√ kṛ, ‘to put right or in order’), [AitBr.] &c. &c.

sama : equable, neutral, indifferent, [VarBṛS.]

sama : equally distant from extremes, ordinary, common, middling, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

sama : just, upright, good, straight, honest, [ib.]

sama : easy, convenient, [Pañcat.]

sama : full, complete, whole, entire, [L.]

sama : samá m. peace (perhaps w.r. for śama), [R.]; [Kām.]

sama : the point of intersection of the horizon and the meridian line, [Gol.]

sama : N. of partic. zodiacal signs (esp. Vṛṣa, Karkaṭa, Kanyā, Vṛścika, Makara, and Mīna), [MW.]

sama : a kind of straight line placed over a numerical figure to mark the process of extracting the square root, [ib.]

sama : (in music) a kind of time, [Saṃgīt.]

sama : a grass-conflagration, [L.]

sama : a Jina, [Gal.]

sama : N. of a son of Dharma, [VP.]

sama : of a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, [MBh.]

sama : of a king of the Nandi-vegas (v.l. śama), [ib.]

sama : samá (am), n. level ground, a plain (samé bhū́myāḥ, ‘on level ground’), [AV.]; [ŚBr.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.]

sama : equability, equanimity, imperturbability, [MBh.]

sama : likeness, similarity, equality (ena, ‘equally, in the same manner’), [Kāś.] on [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 18]

sama : right measure or proportion (ena, ‘exactly, precisely’), [ŚBr.]

sama : settlement, compensation, [Mn. viii, 177]

sama : good circumstances, [Mṛcch.]

sama : (in rhet.) a partic. figure, sameness of objects compared to one another, [Pratāp.]; [Kuval.]

sama : (in geom.) a mean proportional segment (described as a fourth proportional to the two perpendiculars and the link or segment, and used for solving problems in a trapezium), [Col.]

sama : = samā f. a year (see pāpa-s°, puṇya-s°, and su-ṣama)

sama : [cf. Gk. ἅμα, ὁμός, ὁμαλός; Lat. similis; Germ. same, -sam; Eng. same.]

sama : sa-ma mfn. (fr. 7. sa + mā) ‘together with Lakṣmi’, happy, prosperous, [Nalod.]

paridveṣas : pári-dveṣas m. a hater, [RV.]

aṃhati : aṃhatí f. anxiety, distress, trouble, [RV.]

aṃhati : illness, [L.];

aṃhati : aṃhatí [cf. Lat. ango]

aṃhati : a gift (also f(aMhatI). ), [L.]

ūrmi : ūrmí is, m. f. (√ ṛ, [Uṇ. iv, 44]), a wave, billow, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [KātyŚr.]; [MBh.]; [Ragh.] &c.

ūrmi : (figuratively) wave of pain or passion or grief &c., [R.]; [Prab.] &c.

ūrmi : ‘the waves of existence’ (six are enumerated, viz. cold and heat [of the body], greediness and illusion [of the mind], and hunger and thirst [of life] [Subh.]; or according to others, hunger, thirst, decay, death, grief, illusion Comm. on [VP.]; [W.])

ūrmi : speed, velocity, [TBr. ii, 5, 7, 1]; [Śiś. v, 4]

ūrmi : symbolical expression for the number six, [RāmatUp.]

ūrmi : a fold or plait in a garment, [L.]

ūrmi : line, row, [L.]

ūrmi : missing, regretting, desire, [L.]

ūrmi : appearance, becoming manifest, [L.];

ūrmi : [cf. Lith. vil-ni-s; Old High Germ. wella; Mod. Germ. Welle; Eng. well.]

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 (?)

nau : encl. acc. dat. gen. du. of 1st pers. pron. (cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 20]), [RV.] &c. &c. ([VS.] also ṇau; cf. [VPrāt. iii, 85]).

nau : naú f. a ship, boat, vessel, [RV.] &c. &c.

nau : (in astrol.) N. of a partic. appearance of the moon or of a constellation, [Var.]

nau : = vāc, [Nir. i, 11] (either because prayer is a vessel leading to heaven or fr. √ 4. nu, ‘to praise’).

nau : [cf. 2. nāva and 7. nu; Gk. ναῦς, ναύ-της, &c.; Lat. nāvis, nau-ta, nau-fragus &c.; Icel. nór; (?) Germ. Nachen.]

ā : the second vowel of the alphabet corresponding to the a in far.

ā : ind. a particle of reminiscence, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14]; [Pat.]

ā : also of compassion or pain [more correctly written 1. ās, q.v.], and of assent, [L.] [This particle remains unaltered in orthography even before vowels (which causes it to be sometimes confounded with 1. ās), [Pāṇ. i, 1, 14.]]

ā : m. N. of Śiva, [L.]

ā : grandfather, [L.]

ā : f. N. of Lakṣmī, [L.]

ā : ā́ (as a prefix to verbs, especially of motion, and their derivatives) near, near to, towards (see ā-√ kram &c.; in the Veda, of course, the prefix is separable from the verb; in a few cases, [RV. i, 10, 11] and [v, 64, 5], a verb in the imperative is to be supplied; with roots like gam, yā, and i, ‘to go’, and 1. dā, ‘to give’, it reverses the action; e.g. ā-gacchati, ‘he comes’; ā-datte, ‘he takes’). (As a prep. with a preceding acc.) near to, towards, to, [RV.]

ā : (with a preceding noun in the acc., as jóṣam or váram) for, [RV.]

ā : (with a following acc.) up to … exclusively, [AitBr.]

ā : (with a preceding abl.) from, [RV.]; [AV.]

ā : out of, from among (e.g. bahúbhya ā́, ‘from among many’), [RV.]

ā : towards (only in asmád ā́, ‘towards us’), [RV.]

ā : (with a following abl. cf. [Pāṇ. ii, 1, 13] & [3, 10]) up to, to, as far as, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

ā : from, [RV. i, 30, 21]

ā : (with a preceding loc.) in, at, on [RV.]; [AV.] (As an adv. after words expressing a number or degree) fully, really, indeed (e.g. trír ā́ divás, ‘quite or fully three times a day’; mahimā́ vām índrāgnī pániṣṭha ā́,, ‘your greatness, O Indra and Agni, is most praiseworthy indeed’, &c.), [RV.]

ā : (after a subst. or adj.) ‘as, like’, (or it simply strengthens the sense of the preceding word), [RV.], (after a verb), [RV. v, 7, 7]; [KenaUp.]

ā : (as a conjunctive particle) moreover, further, and (it is placed either between the two words connected [rarely after the second, [RV. x, 16, 11], or after both, [RV. x, 92, 8]] or, if there are more, after the last [[RV. iv, 57, 1] and [x, 75, 5]]; see also ātaś ca s.v.) In classical Sanskṛt it may denote the limit ‘to’, ‘until’, ‘as far as’, ‘from’, either not including the object named or including it (sometimes with acc. or abl. or forming an adv.) e.g. ā-maraṇam or ā-maraṇāt, ‘till death’, [Pañcat.] (cf. ā-maraṇānta &c.)

ā : ā-gopālā dvijātayaḥ, ‘the twice-born including the cowherds’, [MBh. ii, 531]

ā : ā-samudram or ā-samudrāt, ‘as far as the ocean’ or ‘from the ocean’ (but not including it)

ā : ā-kumāram, ‘from a child’ or ‘from childhood’ or ‘to a child’ (cf. Lat. a puero), [MBh. iii, 1403]

ā : ā-kumāram yaśaḥ pāṇineḥ, ‘the fame of Pāṇini extends even to children’

ā : ā́ ājānu-bāhu mfn. ‘one whose arms reach down to the knees’, [R. i, 1, 12]

ā : ā́ (see also ākarṇa- and ājanma-)

ā : ā́ (cf. ā-jarasám, ā-vyuṣám, ā-saptama, otsūryám.) Prefixed to adj. [rarely to subst.; cf. ā-kopa] it implies diminution, [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 18] Comm. ‘a little’ e.g. ā-piñjara mfn. a little red, reddish, [Ragh. xvi, 51]

ā : ā́ (see also ā-pakva, oṣṇa, &c.) Some commentaries (e.g. Comm. on [Ragh. iii, 8]) occasionally give to in this application the meaning samantāt, ‘all through, completely’, as ā-nīla, ‘blue all round’.

vadh : (also written badh; cf. √ bādh; properly only used in the aor. and Prec. tenses avadhīt and °dhiṣṭa; vadhyāt and vadhiṣīṣṭa, [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 42] &c.; [6, 62]; the other tenses being supplied by √ han; cf. [Dhātup. xxiv, 2]; but in Ved. and ep. poetry also pres. vadhati; Pot. vadhet; fut. vadhiṣyati, °te; other Ved. forms are aor. avadhīm, váhīm Subj. vadhiṣaḥ; badhīḥ, [TĀr.]; Prec. badhyāsam, °suḥ, [AV.]), to strike, slay, kill, murder, defeat, destroy, [RV.] &c. &c.: Pass. vadhyate, °ti (aor. avadhi), to be slain or killed, [MBh.]; [Kāv.]; &c. : Caus. vadhayati, to kill, slay, [MBh.] [a. Gk. ὠθέω.]