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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Niras (निरस्).—4 P.

1) To cast out, throw or drive away, give up, quit, drive or send back; निरस्तगाम्भीर्यमपास्त- पुष्पकम् (nirastagāmbhīryamapāsta- puṣpakam) Śiśupālavadha 1.55;9.63.

2) To destroy, ward off, defeat, annihilate, dispel; अह्नाय तावदरुणेन तमो निरस्तम् (ahnāya tāvadaruṇena tamo nirastam) R.5.7; रक्षांसि वेदीं परितो निरास्थत् (rakṣāṃsi vedīṃ parito nirāsthat) Bhaṭṭikāvya 1.12;2.36.

3) To turn out, remove, expel, banish; गृहान्निरस्ता न तेन वैदेहसुता मनस्तः (gṛhānnirastā na tena vaidehasutā manastaḥ) R.14.84.

4) To throw out, discharge (as arrows).

5) To reject, repudiate, decline.

6) To refute, confute, controvert (as arguments).

7) To eclipse, obscure, throw into the back-ground; यशांसि सर्वेषुभृतां निरास्थत् (yaśāṃsi sarveṣubhṛtāṃ nirāsthat) Bhaṭṭikāvya 1.3.

8) To tear out, strip off.

9) To stretch out (as a hand).

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

Niras (निरस्).—throw out, send away, banish from ([ablative]); keep off, remove, destroy.

Niras is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms nis and as (अस्).

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

Niras (निरस्):—[=nir-as] -√2. as [Parasmaipada] [Ātmanepada] -asyati, te, ([infinitive mood] asitum, [Mahābhārata]; [Aorist] -āsthat, [Bhaṭṭi-kāvya]). to cast out, throw or drive away, expel, remove, banish from ([ablative]), [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; ???; Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata] etc.;

—to ward off, keep away, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.;

—to strip off (also [Ātmanepada]), [Pāṇini 1-3, 29], [vArttika] 3, [Patañjali];

—to stretch out (hastau, also [Ātmanepada]), [Vopadeva];

—to reject, refuse, decline (as a suitor, an offer, etc.), [Sāhitya-darpaṇa];

—to destroy, annihilate, [Yājñavalkya; Mahābhārata; Hitopadeśa]

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

Niras (निरस्) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Ṇirasa.

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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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Niras in Hindi refers in English to:—(a) sapless, juiceless; dry; flat; stodgy; insipid; prosaic; uninteresting; hence ~[ta] (nf)..—niras (नीरस) is alternatively transliterated as Nīrasa.

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Partial matches: Nir, Ash, Nish.

Starts with (+97): Niracam, Niracanai, Niracanam, Niracaram, Niracaticastiram, Niracatipan, Niracavastu, Nirasa, Nirasa Sutta, Nirasada, Nirasajala, Nirasakomal, Nirasakta, Nirasakte, Nirasakti, Nirasala, Nirasamarga, Nirasamati, Nirasamgey, Nirasamsa.

Ends with: Abhiniras, Pratiniras.

Full-text: Nirasa, Cucilai, Nirasti, Abhiniras, Nirastapad, Pratiniras, Nirastasamkhya, Nirastabheda, Nirastasukhodaya, Nirastaraga, Nidassati, Nirasaniya, Nirashin, Nirasya, Nirashaka, Nirashagutika, Nirasana, Nirasta.

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