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].

vasuvid : vasu—víd mfn. bestowing wealth, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.

abhi : abhí ind. (a prefix to verbs and nouns, expressing) to, towards, into, over, upon. (As a prefix to verbs of motion) it expresses the notion or going towards, approaching, &c. (As a prefix to nouns not derived from verbs) it expresses superiority, intensity, &c.

abhi : e.g. abhi-tāmra, abhi-nava, q.v. (As a separate adverb or preposition) it expresses (with acc.) to, towards, in the direction of, against

abhi : into, [ŚBr.] & [KātyŚr.]

abhi : for, for the sake of

abhi : on account of

abhi : on, upon, with regard to, by, before, in front of

abhi : over. It may even express one after the other, severally, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 91], e.g. vṛkṣaṃ vṛkṣam abhi, tree after tree

abhi : [cf. Gk. ἀμϕί; Lat. ob; Zend aibi, aiwi; Goth. bi; Old High Germ. bī].

abhi : a-bhi mfn. fearless, [MBh.]

vāṇī : (ī), f. See below

vāṇī : vā́ṇī f. sound, voice, music (pl. a choir of musicians or singers), [RV.] (the sapta vāṇīs are referred by the Comms. to the seven metres or to the seven notes of the gamut &c.)

vāṇī : speech, language, words, diction, (esp.) eloquent speech or fine diction, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

vāṇī : a literary production or composition, [Uttarar.]; [Bhām.]

vāṇī : praise, laudation, [MW.]

vāṇī : the goddess of speech, Sarasvatī, [R.]; [BrahmaP.]

vāṇī : N. of a metre consisting only of long syllables, [Kāvyād.], Sch.

vāṇī : of a river (accord. to some the Sarasvatī), [VP.]

vāṇī : f. (cf. vāṇi) weaving, [L.]

vāṇī : f. reed, [RV. v, 86, 1]

vāṇī : du. the two bars of a car or carriage, [ib.] [i, 119, 5.]

nu : nú ind. (in [RV.] also nū́; esp. at the beginning of a verse, where often = nú + u), now, still, just, at once

nu : so now, now then, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [Up.]

nu : indeed, certainly, surely, [RV.] &c. &c.

nu : cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 2, 121], Sch. (often connected with other particles, esp. with negatives, e.g. nahí nú, ‘by no means’, nákir nú, ‘no one or nothing at all’, mā́ nú, ‘in order that surely not’; often also gha nu, ha nu, in nu, nu kam &c. [nū́ cit, either ‘for ever, evermore; at once, forthwith’ or ‘never, never more’; so also nū alone, [RV. vii, 100, 1]]; with relat. = -cunque or -soever; sometimes it lays stress upon a preceding word, esp. an interr. pronoun or particle, and is then often connected with khalu, [RV.] &c. &c.; it is also employed in questions, esp. in sentences of two or more clauses [cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 98], [Kāś.]] where is either always repeated [[Śak. vi, 9]] or omitted in the first place [[ib.] [i, 8]] or in the second place and further replaced by svid, yadi vā &c., and strengthened by vā, atha vā &c.)

nu : [cf. 1. náva, nū́tana, nūnám; Zd. nū; Gk. νύ, νῦν; Lat. nun-c; Germ. nu, nun; Angl.Sax. nu, nū; Eng. now.]

nu : m. a weapon, [L.]

nu : time, [L.]

nu : cl. 1. Ā. navate (nauti with apa), to go, [Naigh. ii, 14] : Caus. nāvayati, to move from the place, remove, [ṢaḍvBr.]

nu : or nū cl. 2. 6. P. ([Dhāt. xxiv, 26]; [xxviii, 104]) nauti, nuvati, (pres. also návate, °ti, [RV.] &c.; p. P. nuvát, návat, Ā. návamāna, [RV.]; pf. nunāva, [Kāv.]; aor. ánūnot, ánūṣi, °ṣata, anaviṣṭa, [RV.]; anauṣit, anāvit, anuvīt Gr.; fut. naviṣyati, nuv°; navitā, nuv°, [ib.]; ind.p. -nutya, -nāvam, [Br.]; inf. navitum v.l. nuv°, [Bhaṭṭ.]), to sound, shout, exult; praise, commend, [RV.] &c. &c.: Pass. nūyate, [MBh.] &c.: Caus. nāvayati aor. anūnavat Gr.: Desid. nunūṣati, [ib.]; Desid. of Caus. nunāvayiṣati, [ib.] : Intens. nónavīti, nonumas (impf. anonavur, Subj. návīnot; pf. nónāva, nonuvur, [RV.]; nonūyate, nonoti Gr.), to sound loudly, roar, thunder, [RV.]

nu : m. praise, eulogium, [L.]

nu : Caus. nāvayati, to cause to be drawn into the nose, [Car.] (cf. 3. nava).

nu : (ifc.) = nau, a ship, [BhP.]

gav : in Ved. comp. for gó

varṇa : várṇa m. (or n. g. ardharcādi, prob. fr. √ 1. vṛ; ifc. f(A). ) a covering, cloak, mantle, [L.]

varṇa : a cover, lid, [Yājñ. iii, 99]

varṇa : outward appearance, exterior, form, figure, shape, colour, [RV.] &c. &c.

varṇa : colour of the face, (esp.) good colour or complexion, lustre, beauty, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.

varṇa : colour, tint, dye, pigment (for painting or writing), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

varṇa : colour = race, species, kind, sort, character, nature, quality, property (applied to persons and things), [RV.] &c. &c.

varṇa : class of men, tribe, order, caste (prob. from contrast of colour between the dark aboriginal tribes and their fair conquerors; in [RV.] esp. applied to the Āryas and the Dāsas; but more properly applicable to the four principal classes described in Manu's code, viz. Brāhmans, Kṣatriyas, Vaiśyas, and Śūdras; the more modern word for ‘caste’ being jāti; cf. [IW. 210 n. 1]), [ib.]

varṇa : a letter, sound, vowel, syllable, word, [Br.]; [Prāt.] &c.

varṇa : a musical sound or note (also applied to the voice of animals), [MBh.]; [R.]; [Pañcat.]

varṇa : the order or arrangement of a song or poem, [W.]

varṇa : praise, commendation, renown, glory, [Mṛcch.]; [Kum.]; [Rājat.]

varṇa : (in alg.) an unknown magnitude or quantity

varṇa : (in arithm.) the figure, ‘one’

varṇa : (accord. to some) a co-efficient

varṇa : a kind of measure, [L.] (cf. -tāla)

varṇa : gold, [L.]

varṇa : a religious observance, [L.]

varṇa : one who wards off, expeller, [Sāy.] on [RV. i, 104, 2]

varṇa : várṇa n. saffron, [L.]

varṇa : [Cf., accord. to some, Slav. vranǔ, ‘black’, ‘a crow’; Lith. várnas, ‘a crow’.]

abhi : abhí ind. (a prefix to verbs and nouns, expressing) to, towards, into, over, upon. (As a prefix to verbs of motion) it expresses the notion or going towards, approaching, &c. (As a prefix to nouns not derived from verbs) it expresses superiority, intensity, &c.

abhi : e.g. abhi-tāmra, abhi-nava, q.v. (As a separate adverb or preposition) it expresses (with acc.) to, towards, in the direction of, against

abhi : into, [ŚBr.] & [KātyŚr.]

abhi : for, for the sake of

abhi : on account of

abhi : on, upon, with regard to, by, before, in front of

abhi : over. It may even express one after the other, severally, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 91], e.g. vṛkṣaṃ vṛkṣam abhi, tree after tree

abhi : [cf. Gk. ἀμϕί; Lat. ob; Zend aibi, aiwi; Goth. bi; Old High Germ. bī].

abhi : a-bhi mfn. fearless, [MBh.]

vas : (encl.) acc. dat. gen. pl. of 2nd pers. pron. (cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 21], [24] &c.), [RV.]; &c.

vas : (a Vedic root connected with √ 1. uṣ, q.v.; not in [Dhātup.]) cl. 6. P., uccháti (pf. uvā́sa, ūṣúḥ, [RV.] &c.; aor. avāt [?] [AV.]; avasran, [RV.]; Cond. avatsyat, [ŚBr.]; Ved. inf. vástave, -úṣi), to shine, grow bright (esp. applied to the dawn), [RV.]; to bestow by shining upon (dat.), [ib.] [i, 113, 7]; (with dūré) to drive away by shining, [ib.] [vii, 77, 4] : Caus. vāsáyati, to cause to shine, [RV.]

vas : [cf. vasar in vasar-han; Gk. ἔαρ for ϝεσαρ; Lat. vēr &c.]

vas : cl. 10. P. vāsayati (aor. avīvasat), to love; to cut off; to accept, take; to offer; to kill (ni-vāsita, killed), [Dhātup. xxxiii, 70] (only with prep.; see pari-√ vas; but accord. to some the Impv. vasiṣva [[RV. viii, 70, 10]] and uṣa, ‘a lover’ [[x, 95, 5]], and vásiṣṭha [[ib.] [17]] belong also to this root, which has developed an obscene meaning = Gk. κεντέω, futuere).

vas : cl. 2. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 13]) váste (Impv. vasiṣva, [RV.]; vaddhvam, [Kauś.]; p. vásāna, once usāná and usámāna, [RV.]; pf. vavase, [Śiś.]; vāvase, p. °sāná, [RV.]; aor. avasiṣṭa, [ib.]; fut. vasitā Gr.; vasiṣyate, [ib.]; vatsyati, [Hariv. 11206]; inf. vasitum, [MBh.]; [R.]; ind.p. vasitvā, [Mn.]; [BhP.]; -vasya, [MBh.]), to put on, invest, wear, (clothes &c.), assume (a form &c.), enter into, [RV.] &c. &c.: Caus. vāsáyati, °te (Pass. vāsyate), to cause or allow to put on or wear (clothes), clothe (Ā. ‘one's self’) with (instr.), [RV.]; [GṛŚrS.]; [Mn.] : Desid. vivasiṣate Gr.: Intens. vāvasyate, vāvasti, [ib.]

vas : [cf. Gk. ἕννυμι for ϝεσ-νυμι, εἷμα; Lat. vestis; Goth. wasjan; Angl.Sax. werian; Eng. wear.]

vas : (ifc.), clothed in, wearing (e.g. preta-cūvara-vas, ‘wearing the garments of dead men’), [Ragh.]

vas : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xxiii, 36]) vásati (mc. also °te; pf. uvāsa, ūṣuḥ, [RV.] &c. &c.; p. vāvasāna, [RV. i, 46, 13]; -vāsāṃ cakre, [Up.]; aor. avātsīt, [AV.]; avāksam, [AitBr.] [where it is artificially connected with vāc]; avāstam, [Up.]; fut. vastā Gr.; vatsyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; vasiṣyati, [MBh.]; inf. vastum, vasitum, [MBh.] &c.; ind.p. uṣitvā́, [Br.]; uṣṭvā, [MBh.]; -úṣya, [Br.] &c.), to dwell, live, stop (at a place), stay (esp. ‘overnight’, with or without rātrim or rātrīs), [RV.] &c. &c.; to remain, abide with or in (with loc. of pers.; loc. or acc. of place, esp. with vāsam or vasatim), [ŚBr.] &c. &c.; to remain or keep on or continue in any condition (with a pp., e.g. with channa, ‘to continue to be covered’, [KātyŚr.]; or with an acc., with brahmacaryam, ‘to practise chastity’, [AitBr.]; or with an adv., e.g. with sukham, ‘to live pleasantly or at ease’; with or without dūratas, ‘to keep aloof’), [TS.] &c. &c.; to have sexual intercourse with (loc.), [Hariv.]; to rest upon (loc.), [Subh.]; to charge or entrust with (instr.), [Hariv.]; cl. 10. P. vasayati, to dwell, [Dhātup. xxxv, 84, e] : Pass. uṣyate (aor. avāsi), to be dwelt &c., [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.: Caus. vāsáyati, °te (cf. [Pāṇ. i, 3, 89]; aor. avīvasat, [MaitrS.] : Pass. vāsyáte, [Br.], °ti, [MBh.]), to cause to halt or stay (overnight), lodge, receive hospitably or as a guest, [ŚBr.]; [MBh.] &c.; to cause to have sexual intercourse with (loc.), [MatsyaP.]; to let anything stand overnight (with tisro, scil. ratrīs, ‘three nights’), [Kauś.]; to cause to wait, keep in suspense, [RV.]; to delay, retard, [Kām.]; to cause to exist, preserve, [ŚBr.]; to cause to be inhabited, populate (a country), [Hit.]; to put in, place upon (loc.), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Kāv.] (anadhyāyam mukhe, to put restraint on the mouth, refrain from speaking); to produce, [Sarvad.] : Desid. vivatsati, to wish to dwell, [ŚBr.] : Intens. vāvasyate, vāvasti, to remain, be in, be engaged in [MW.]

vas : [cf. Goth. wisan; Germ. wësan, ge-wesen, war &c.; Angl.Sax. wësan; Eng. was, were.]

vas : vás (only in gen. vásām), prob. either ‘an abode’ or ‘a dweller’, [RV. v, 2, 6.]

vas : (only vasiṣva, [anu] -vāvase, vāvasāná, and vástos), to rush or aim at, attack, [RV. viii, 70, 10] (cf. under √ 3. ); [viii, 4, 8]; [i, 51, 3]; [vi, 11, 6] (?); [i, 174, 3].

vas : (also written bas) cl. 4. P. vasyati, to be or make firm, [Dhātup. xxxiii, 70.]