Hras: 7 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Hras (ह्रस्).—1 P. (hrasati, hrasita)

1) To sound.

2) To become small or diminished or lessened, wane, disappear; चक्षुर्भ्राम्यति रूपमेव ह्रसते वक्त्रं च लालायते (cakṣurbhrāmyati rūpameva hrasate vaktraṃ ca lālāyate) Pañcatantra (Bombay) 4.78. -Caus. To shorten, lessen, diminish.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Hras (ह्रस्).—r. 1st cl. (hrasati) 1. To sound. 2. To be small or few.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Hras (ह्रस्).—i. 1, [Parasmaipada.] 1. † To sound (cf. ras). 2. To become small, to be lessened, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 1, 83. [Causal.] hrāsaya, To diminish, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 11, 216.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Hras (ह्रस्).—hrasati hrasate (±nis) become less or short; [Causative] diminish.

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

Hras (ह्रस्):—[class] 1. [Ātmanepada] [Parasmaipada] hrasati, te (only in present base; [grammar] also [perfect tense] jahrāsa etc.),

—to become short or small, be diminished or lessened, [Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata] etc.;

—to descend from ([ablative]), [Mahābhārata];

— ([Parasmaipada]) to sound, [Dhātupāṭha xvii, 61] :—[Causal] hrāsayati ([Aorist] ajihrasat), to make small or less, shorten, curtail, diminish, [Gobhila-śrāddha-kalpa; Manu-smṛti] etc.:—[Desiderative] jihrasiṣati [grammar]:—[Intensive] jāhrasyate, jāhrasti, [ib.]

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

Hras (ह्रस्) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Hasa, Hassa.

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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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