Ahve, Āhve: 4 definitions

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Sanskrit dictionary

Āhve (आह्वे).—1 P.

1) To call, summon.

2) To invite, invoke (in a liturgical sense).

3) (Ā.) To provoke, challenge; कृष्णश्चाणूरमाह्वयते (kṛṣṇaścāṇūramāhvayate) Sk.; आह्वत चेदिराण्मुरारिम् (āhvata cedirāṇmurārim) Śiśupālavadha 2.1; Bhaṭṭikāvya 6.25,8.18,15.28,42,89. -Caus.

1) To send for, call; कविमाह्वाययामास प्रस्तुतप्रतिपत्तये (kavimāhvāyayāmāsa prastutapratipattaye) R.15.75; Bhaṭṭikāvya 6.121.

2) To cause to invite or summon.

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Āhve (आह्वे):—[=ā-√hve] [Parasmaipada] -hvayati (but also [Potential] 1. sg. ā-huvema, [Atharva-veda vii, 85, 1]) [Ātmanepada] -hvayate (but also 1. sg. ā-huve, [Ṛg-veda]; [Aorist] 3. [plural] āhūṣata, [Ṛg-veda i, 14, 2, etc.]; [Infinitive mood] -huvadhyai, [Ṛg-veda vi, 60, 13, and] -hvayitavai, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa ii, 5, 3, 18])

—to call near, invoke invite, summon, cite, [Ṛg-veda; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Taittirīya-saṃhitā; Mahābhārata; Mṛcchakaṭikā; Bhāgavata-purāṇa; Pañcatantra] etc.;

—to provoke, challenge, emulate (in this sense only [Ātmanepada] [Pāṇini 1-3, 31]), [Ṛg-veda; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Rāmāyaṇa; Kathāsaritsāgara] etc.;

—to call to (especially in rites said of the Hotṛ, who addresses the Adhvaryu by the Ā-hāva or Ā-hvāna; See below), [Aitareya-brāhmaṇa; Āśvalāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Śāṅkhāyana-brāhmaṇa] and, [Śāṅkhāyana-śrauta-sūtra];

—to proclaim, [Aitareya-brāhmaṇa; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra; Āśvalāyana-śrauta-sūtra] :

—[Causal] -hvāyayati, to cause to call near, send for;

—to cause to summon or challenge or invite, [Rāmāyaṇa; Raghuvaṃśa; Bhaṭṭi-kāvya] :

—[Desiderative] -juhūṣati, to wish to call near, to be about to call near:

—[Intensive] ā-johavīti, [Ṛg-veda vii, 56, 18], to call near zealously.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Āhve (आह्वे) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Āhava.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)
context information

Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Āhve (ಆಹ್ವೆ):—[noun] a name; an appellation.

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus
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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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