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) :

car : cl. 1. cárati, rarely °te (Subj. cárat, 3. pl. cárān, [RV.]; perf. cacā́ra [[AV.] &c.], 2. sg. cacartha, [BhP. iv, 28, 52]; pl. cerur, &c.; °ratur, [ŚBr.] &c.; Ā. cere, [BhP. iii, 1, 19]; fut. cariṣyati, °te; aor. acārīt [[ŚBr. xiv] &c.]; inf. cáritum [[ii]; [MBh. i], [iii]; [R.]] or cartum [[MBh. iii], [xiii]; [R. iii]; [BhP. v]], Ved. carádhyai [[RV. i, 61, 12]], cáritave [[113, 5]], caráse [[92, 9] and [v, 47, 4]], carā́yai [[vii, 77, 1]], caritos [[AitĀr. i, 1, 1, 7]]; ind.p. caritvā́, [ŚBr. xiv]; [BhP. x, 75, 19]; cartvā, [MBh. v, 3790]; cīrtvā, [xiii, 495]; p. cárat) to move one's self, go, walk, move, stir, roam about, wander (said of men, animals, water, ships, stars, &c.), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to spread, be diffused (as fire), [VarBṛS. xix, 7]; to move or travel through, pervade, go along, follow, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to behave, conduct one's self, act, live, treat (with instr. or loc.), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to be engaged in, occupied or busy with (instr., e.g. yajñéna c°, ‘to be engaged in a sacrifice’, [ŚBr.]), [RV. x, 71, 5]; [AV. vi, 117, 1]; [AitBr.] &c.; (with [[ŚBr. iv]; [ChUp.]; [Kauś.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]] or without [[ŚBr. ii], [xiv]] mithunám) to have intercourse with, have to do with (instr.); (with a p. or adj. or ind.p. or adv.) to continue performing or being (e.g. arcantaś cerur, ‘they continued worshipping’, [ŚBr. i]; svāminam avajñāya caret, ‘he may go on despising his master’, [Hit.]), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c.; (in astron.) to be in any asterism or conjunction, [VarBṛS.]; to undertake, set about, under go, observe, practise, do or act in general, effect, make (e.g. vratā́ni ‘to observe vows’, [AV.] &c.; vighnaṃ c°, ‘to put a hindrance’, [MBh.]; bhaikṣaṃ c° ‘to beg’, [Mn. ii]; vivādaṃ c°, ‘to be engaged in a lawsuit’, [Mn. viii, 8]; mṛgayāṃ c°, ‘to hunt’, [MBh.]; [R.]; sambandhāṃś c°, ‘to enter into connections’, [Mn. ii, 40]; mārgaṃ cacāra bāṇaiḥ, ‘he made a way with arrows’, [R. iii, 34, 4]; tapasā indriyāṇi c°, to exercise one's organs with penance, [MBh. xiv, 544]), [RV.]; [AV.] &c.; to consume, eat (with acc.), graze, [Yājñ. iii, 324]; [Pañcat.]; [BhP. v], [x]; [Subh.]; [Hit.]; to make or render (with double acc.) e.g. naréndraṃ satya-sthaṃ carāma, ‘let us make the king keep his word’, [R. ii, 107, 19] : Caus. cārayati, to cause to move or walk about, [AV. xii, 4, 28] (aor. ácīcarat), [ŚāṅkhBr. xxx, 8]; [Lāṭy.]; to pasture, [MBh. xiv]; [R.]; [BhP. iii], [x]; to send, direct, turn, move, [MBh.] &c.; to cause any one (acc.) to walk through (acc.), [MBh. xii]; [R. v, 49, 14]; to drive away from (abl.), [MBh. xii, 12944]; to cause any one (acc.) to practise or perform (with acc.), [Mn. xi, 177] and [192]; to cause (any animal acc.) to eat, [Bādar. ii, 2, 5], Sch.; to cause to copulate, [Mn. viii, 362]; to ascertain (as through a spy instr.), [MBh. iii], [xv]; [R. i], [vi]; to doubt (cf. vi-), [Dhātup. xxxiii, 71] : Desid. cicariṣati, to try to go, [ŚāṅkhBr. xxx, 8] (p. cicarṣat) ; to wish to act or conduct one's self, [ŚBr. xi]; to try to have intercourse with (instr.), [vi] : Intens. carcarīti Ā. or rarely [[MBh. iii, 12850]] Pass. cañcūryate (°curīti and °cūrti, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 87 f.]; ind.p. °cūrya, [R. iv, 29, 22]; p. once P. °cūryat, [Hariv. 3602]) to move quickly or repeatedly, walk about, roam about (in loc.), [AV. xx, 127, 4]; [MBh.] &c.; to act wantonly or coquettishly, [Bhaṭṭ. iv, 19] (cf. [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 24]); [cf. πέλομαι, ἀμϕί-πολο-ς, ἀνα-τολή &c.]

vaj : (prob. corrupted fr. √ vraj) cl. 1. P. vajati (pf. vavāja fut. vajitā &c. Gr.), to go, [Dhātup. vii, 78]: Caus. or cl. 10. P. vājayati, to prepare the way, to trim or feather an arrow (mārga-, or mārgaṇa-saṃskāre), [Dhātup. xxxii, 74]. Another √ or uj, ‘to be hard or strong’, may be inferred from ugra, ojas, vajra, vāja (qq.vv.), the last of which gave rise to the Nom. vājaya, q.v. [For cognate words See under ugra and ojas.]

ap : áp n. (gen. apás), work (according to [NBD.]), [RV. i, 151, 4.]

ap : áp f. (in Ved. used in sing. and pl., but in the classical language only in pl., ā́pas) water

ap : air, the intermediate region, [Naigh.]

ap : the star δ Virginis

ap : the Waters considered as divinities. ifc. may become apa or īpa, ūpa after i- and u- stems respectively.

ap : [cf. Lat. aqua; Goth. ahva, ‘a river’; Old Germ. aha, and affa at the end of compounds; Lith. uppê, ‘a river’; perhaps Lat. amnis, ‘a river’, for apnis cf. also ἀϕρός]

pra : prá ind. before

pra : forward, in front, on, forth (mostly in connection with a verb, esp. with a verb of motion which is often to be supplied; sometimes repeated before the verb, cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 6]; rarely as a separate word, e.g. [AitBr. ii, 40])

pra : as a prefix to subst. = forth, away, cf. pra-vṛtti, pra-sthāna

pra : as prefix to adj. = excessively, very, much, cf. pra-caṇḍa, pra-matta

pra : in nouns of relationship = great- cf. pra-pitāmaha, pra-pautra

pra : (according to native lexicographers it may be used in the senses of gati, ā-rambha, ut-karṣa, sarvato-bhāva, prāthamya, khyāti, ut-patti, vy-avahāra), [RV.]; &c.

pra : [cf. puras, purā, pūrva; Zd. fra; Gk. πρό; Lat. pro; Slav. pra-, pro-; Lith. pra-; Goth. faúr, faúra; Germ. vor; Eng. fore.]

pra : mfn. (√ pṝ or prā) filling, fulfilling

pra : (n. fulfilment ifc.; cf. ākūti-, kakṣya-, kāma-)

pra : like, resembling (ifc.; cf. ikṣu-, kṣura-).

medhira : médhira mfn. (fr. medhā) intelligent, wise (said of Varuṇa, Indra, Agni &c.), [RV.]

svadhā : sva—dhā , see p. 1278, col. 1, and s.v.

svadhā : sva-dhā́ f. (for svadhā́ See p. 1280) self-position, self-power, inherent power (accord. to some, N. of Nature or the material Universe; sva-dháyā ‘by self-power’), [RV.]

svadhā : own state or condition or nature, habitual state, custom, rule, law, [RV.]

svadhā : ease, comfort, pleasure (ánu svadhā́m, svadhā́m ánu or svadhā́ ánu, svadháyā, or svadhā́bhiḥ, ‘according to one's habit or pleasure, spontaneously, willingly, easily, freely, undisturbedly, wantonly, sportively’), [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TBr.]

svadhā : own place, home (svadhé du. ‘the two places or homes’, heaven and earth, [Naigh. iii, 30]), [ib.]

svadhā : ‘own portion or share’, the sacrificial offering due to each god, (esp.) the food or libation, or refreshing drink (cf. 2. su-dhā) offered to the Pitṛs or spirits of deceased ancestors (consisting of clarified butter &c. and often only a remainder of the Havis; also applied to other oblations or libations, and personified as a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of the Pitṛs or of Aṅgiras or of a Rudra or of Agni), [RV.] &c. &c.

svadhā : sva-dhā (-dhā), ind. (with dat. or gen.) the exclamation or benediction used on presenting (or as a substitute for) the above oblation or libation to the gods or departed ancestors (accord. to [Mn. iii, 252] the highest form of benediction at a Śrāddha; with √ kṛ, ‘to pronounce the exclamation or benediction sva-dhā’; svadhāstu, ‘let there be a blessing on it’ [cf. [RTL. 104, n. 1]]), [RV.]; &c.

svadhā : svadhā́ f. (for sva-dhā see p. 1278, col. 1) an axe, knife, [TS.]

pinv : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xv, 79]) pínvati (p. pínvat, [RV.]; pinvát, [AV.]; pf. pipinva, [RV.]; Ā. 3. pl. pinviré; p. pinvāná, [ib.]; aor. apinvīt Gr.; fut. pinviṣyati, °vitā, [ib.]), to cause to swell, distend; to cause to overflow or abound, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [GṛŚrS.]; Ā. pínvate, to swell, be distended, abound, overflow, [ib.] (also P. Ā. and in [ŚBr.] P. for Ā.) : Caus. pinváyati = P. pinvati, [ŚBr.]

pada : padá n. (rarely m.) a step, pace, stride

pada : a footstep, trace, vestige, mark, the foot itself, [RV.] &c. &c. (padena, on foot; pade pade, at every step, everywhere, on every occasion; trīṇi padāni viṣṇoḥ, the three steps or footprints of Viṣṇu [i.e. the earth, the air, and the sky; cf. [RV. i, 154, 5]; [Vikr. i, 19]], also N. of a constellation or according to some ‘the space between the eyebrows’; sg. viṣṇoḥ padam N. of a locality; padaṃ-√ dā, padāt padaṃ-√ gam or √ cal, to make a step, move on; padaṃ-√ kṛ, with loc. to set foot in or on, to enter; with mūrdhni, to set the foot upon the head of [gen.] i.e. overcome; with citte or hṛdaye, to take possession of any one's heart or mind; with loc. or prati, to have dealings with; padaṃ ni-√ dhā with loc., to set foot in = to make impression upon; with padavyām, to set the foot on a person's [gen. or ibc.] track, to emulate or equal; padam ni-√ bandh with loc., to enter or engage in)

pada : a sign, token, characteristic, [MBh.]; [Kathās.]; [Pur.]

pada : a footing, standpoint

pada : position, rank, station, site, abode, home, [RV.] &c. &c. (padam ā-√ tan, to spread or extend one's position; padāt padam bhrāmayitvā, having caused to wander from place to place)

pada : a business affair, matter, object or cause of (gen. or comp.), [Kāv.]; [Pañc.] &c.

pada : a pretext, [L.]

pada : a part, portion, division (cf. dvi-, tri-)

pada : a square on a chess-board, [R.]

pada : a plot of ground, [Inscr.]

pada : the foot as a measure of length (= 12 or 15 fingers' breadth, or 1/2 or 1/3 or 3/7 of a Prakrama), [KātyŚr.]

pada : a ray of light (m., [L.])

pada : a portion of a verse, quarter or line of a stanza, [RV.] &c. &c.

pada : a word or an inflected word or the stem of a noun in the middle cases and before some Taddhitas, [Pāṇ. i, 4, 14] &c.

pada : = pada-pāṭha, [Prāt.]

pada : common N. of the P. and Ā. [Cat.]

pada : any one in a set of numbers the sum of which is required

pada : a period in an arithmetical progression, [Col.]

pada : a square root, [Sūryas.]

pada : a quadrant, [ib.]

pada : protection, [L.]

pada : [cf. Gk. πέδον; Lat. peda; op-pidum for op-pedum.]

aṃśu : aṃśú m. a filament (especially of the Soma plant)

aṃśu : a kind of Soma libation, [ŚBr.]

aṃśu : thread

aṃśu : end of a thread, a minute particle

aṃśu : a point, end

aṃśu : a ray, sunbeam

aṃśu : cloth, [L.]

aṃśu : N. of a Ṛṣi, [RV. viii, 5, 26]

aṃśu : of an ancient Vedic teacher, son of a Dhanaṃjaya, [VBr.]

aṃśu : of a prince.

yava : yáva m. the first half of a month (generally in pl.; accord. to Comm. = pūrva-pakṣāḥ; also written yāva), [VS.]; [ŚBr.]; [Kāṭh.]

yava : yáva mfn. (√ 1. yu) warding off, averting, [AV.]; [Yājñ.]

yava : yáva m. barley (in the earliest times, prob. any grain or corn yielding flour or meal; pl. barley-corns), [RV.] &c. &c.

yava : a barley-corn (either as a measure of length = 1/6 or 1/8 of an Aṅgula, [VarBṛS.]; or as a weight = 6 or 12 mustard seeds = 1/2 Guñjā, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.])

yava : any grain of seed or seed corn, [Bhpr.]

yava : (in palmistry) a figure or mark on the hand resembling a barley-corn (supposed to indicate good fortune), [VarBṛS.]

yava : N. of a partic. astron. Yoga (when the favourable planets are situated in the 4th and 10th mansions and the unfavourable ones in the 1st and 7th), [ib.]

yava : speed, velocity, [W.] (prob. w.r. for java); a double convex lens, [ib.]

yava : [cf. Zd. yava; Gk. ζειά; Lith. javaí.]

piś : (piṃś) cl. 6. P. ([Dhātup. xxviii, 143]) piṃśati, Ved. also Ā. °te (pf. pipéśa, pipiśé, °śre, [RV.]; aor. p. piśāná, [ib.]; apeśīt Gr. ; fut. peśiṣyati, peśitā Gr.), to hew out, carve, prepare (esp. meat), make ready, adorn (Ā. also ‘one's self’); to form, fashion, mould, [RV.]; [TBr.] : Pass. piśyáte, [AV.] : Caus. peśayate aor. apīpiśat Gr.: Desid. pipiśiṣati or pipeśiṣati, [ib.] : Intens. See pépiśat, śāna.

piś : [cf. Gk. ποικίλος; Slav. pišati; Angl.Sax. fâh.]

piś : píś f. ornament, decoration, [RV. vii, 18, 2] (cf. viśva-, śukra-, su-.).

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’.]

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.;

jāmi : jāmí mfn. related like brother and sister, (f. with [[RV. i], [iii], [ix]] or without svásṛ) a sister, (rarely m.) a brother, [RV.] (‘sisters’, = fingers; ‘7 sisters’ = 7 acts of devotion in Soma worship, [ix, 66, 8]; cf. saptá-), [AV.]

jāmi : related (in general), belonging or peculiar to, customary, usual, (m.) a relative, [RV.] (cf. jāṃ-dhitá s.v. jā)

jāmi : jāmí f. a female relative of the head of a family, esp. the daughter-in-law, [Mn. iii, 57 f.]; [MBh. xiii], [xv]; [BhP. iv, 28, 16]

jāmi : a sister (?), [Yājñ. i, 157]

jāmi : a virtuous woman, [L.]

jāmi : N. of a goddess, [TBr. i, 7, 2, 6] (cf. °mī)

jāmi : jāmí n. the relation of brother and sister, consanguinity, [RV. iii, 54, 9]; [x, 10, 4]

jāmi : (in Gr. and in liturgy) uniformity, repetition, tautology, [TS.]; [TBr.]; [ŚBr.]; [AitBr.]; [Lāṭy.]; [Nir.]

jāmi : water, [Naigh. i, 12] (v.l. °mi-vat)

jāmi : cf. á-, ví-, saptá-, samāvaj-, su-, sóma-

jāmi : deva-jāmí;

jāmi : [cf. Lat. geminus.]

nas : encl. form for acc. gen. dat. pl. of the 1st pers. pron. ([Pāṇ. viii, 1, 21]), us, of us, to us; in Veda changeable into ṇas ([4, 27]; [28]).

nas : , [cf. Zd. na, our; Gk. νῶϊ, νώ; Lat. nos, nos-ter; Old Lat. dat. nis.]

nas : cl. 1. Ā. ([Dhātup. xvi, 26]) násate (aor. Pot. nasīmahi, [RV. ii, 16, 8]; pf. nese; fut. nasitā Gr.) to approach, resort to, join, copulate (esp. as husband and wife), [RV.]; to be crooked or fraudulent, [Dhātup.]

nas : [cf. Gk.νέ(σ)ομαι, να(σ)ίω, νόσ-τος; Goth. ga-nizan, nas-jan; Angl.Sax. genësan; HGerm. ginësan, genesen.]

nas : nás or nās f. (the strong stem occurs only in du. nā́sā, [RV. ii, 39, 6], the weak stem only in nasā́, nasí, nasós [cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 63]] and in comp.) the nose, [RV.]; [AV.]; [VS.]; [TS.]; [BhP.]

nas : [cf. nāsā, nāsikā; Lat. nas-turcium, nāres; Lith. nósis; Slav. nosǔ; Germ. Nase; Angl.Sax. nosu; Eng. nose, nostril = nose-thrill, nose-hole.]

rakṣ : cl. 1. P. ([Dhātup. xvii, 6]) rákṣati (Ved. and mc. also °te; pf. rarákṣa, [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. arakṣīt, [AV.] &c.; arākṣīt, [Br.]; Prec. rakṣyāt Gr.; fut. rakṣitā, [MBh.]; rakṣiṣyati Cond. arakṣiṣyat, [ib.]; rakṣye, [R.]; inf. rakṣitum, [MBh.]), to guard, watch, take care of, protect, save, preserve (‘from’ abl.), [RV.] &c. &c.; to tend (cattle), [Mn.]; [MBh.]; [R.]; to rule (the earth or a country), [MBh.]; [Rājat.]; to keep (a secret), [Kathās.]; to spare, have regard to (another's feelings), [Mālav.]; to observe (a law, duty &c.), [RV.]; [MBh.]; to guard against, ward off, keep away, prevent, frustrate, injure, [AV. v, 1]; to beware of [Kathās.]; (Ā.) to heed, attend to (loc.), [RV. i, 72, 5]; (Ā.) to conceal, hide (?), [RV. ix, 68, 4]; to conceal one's self, be afraid (?), [ib.] [x, 68, 1] : Caus. rakṣayati, °te (aor. ararakṣat, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 93], Sch.), to guard, watch, save or protect from (abl.), [Kāv.]; [Pañcat.] : Desid. rirakṣati, to wish to guard, intend to protect from (abl.), [MBh.] : Intens. See rārakṣāṇá.

rakṣ : [Prob. a kind of Desid. of some root like raj or rajj; cf. Gk. ἀ-λέξω, ἀρκέω; Lat. arx, arceo.]

rakṣ : (ifc.) guarding, watching &c. (see gorakṣ).

śiraḥ : in comp. for śiras.

śiras : śíras n. (prob. originally śaras = karas; and connected with karaṅka, q.v.) the head, skull (acc. with √ dā, ‘to give up one's head i.e. life’; with √ dhṛ, or √ vah, ‘to hold up one's head, be proud’; with Caus. of √ vṛt or with upa-√ sthā, ‘to hold out the head’, ‘acknowledge one's self guilty’, see śiropasthāyin; instr. with √ grah, √ dhā, √ dhṛ, vi-√ dhṛ, √ bhṛ, √ vah, or √ kṛ, ‘to hold or carry or place on the head, receive deferentially’; instr. with √ gam, abhi-√ gam, pra-√ grah, √ yā, pra-ṇam [√ nam], ni-√ pat, pra-ṇi-√ pat, ‘to touch with the head, bow or fall down before’; loc. with √ kṛ or ni-√ dhā, ‘to place on one's head’; loc. with √ sthā, ‘to be on or stand over a person's head, stand far above [gen.]’), [RV.] &c. &c.

śiras : the upper end or highest part of anything, top, peak, summit, pinnacle, acme, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.

śiras : the forepart or van (of an army), [Śiś.]

śiras : the beginning (of a verse), [VarBṛS.]

śiras : (ifc.) the head, leader, chief, foremost, first (of a class), [BhP.]

śiras : N. of the verse āpo jyotir āpo 'mṛtam, [Baudh.]; [Viṣṇ.] &c.

śiras : of a Sāman (also with indrasya), [ĀrṣBr.]; [Lāṭy.]

śiras : of a mountain, [Buddh.]

śiras : [cf. śīrṣan; Gk. κέρας, κάρη &c.; Lat. cerebrum for ceresrum, cornu; Germ. hirni, Hirn; Eng. horn.]