Praha, Prahā, Prāha: 8 definitions
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Prahā (प्रहा).—3 P.
1) To give up, forsake, abandon, relinquish; प्रजहाति यदा कामान् (prajahāti yadā kāmān) Bhagavadgītā (Bombay) 2.55,39; मोदमेतौ प्रहास्येते (modametau prahāsyete) Rām.
2) To let go, cast, discharge; प्रजहुः शूलपट्टिशान् (prajahuḥ śūlapaṭṭiśān) Bk. 14.23.
3) To depart from. -Pass.
1) To be forsaken or neglected.
2) To be lost, to perish.
3) To vanish, cease, disappear.
4) To be vanquished, to succumb.
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Prahā (प्रहा).—Ved.
1) A good throw at dice.
2) Gain, advantage.
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Prāha (प्राह).—Instruction in the art of dancing.
Derivable forms: prāhaḥ (प्राहः).
Prāha (प्राह).—m.
(-haḥ) Instruction in the art of acting or dancing.
Prahā (प्रहा).—[feminine] start, advantage.
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Prahā (प्रहा).—start up or off.
Prahā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pra and hā (हा).
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Prahā (प्रहा).—leave, abandon, give up, resign. [Passive][Middle] be left or omitted, cease, vanish, succumb, lose.
Prahā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pra and hā (हा).
1) Prahā (प्रहा):—[=pra-hā] a. pra-√2. hā [Ātmanepada], -jihīte, to drive off, haste away, [Ṛg-veda];
—to spring up, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa]
2) [v.s. ...] b. pra-√3. hā [Parasmaipada] -jahāti, (3. [plural] pr. irreg. -jahanti, [Mahābhārata]; [future] 3. [dual number] [Ātmanepada] -hāsyete, [Rāmāyaṇa]),
2) —to leave, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa] etc. etc.;
2) —to desert, quit, abandon, give up, renounce, violate (a duty), break (a promise), [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.;
2) —to send off, throw, hurl, [Bhaṭṭi-kāvya];
2) — (incorrectly for [Passive voice]) to cease, disappear, [Mahābhārata] :
2) —[Passive voice] -hīyate, to be relinquished or neglected, be lost, fail, cease, perish, [Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata];—to be vanquished, succumb, [Mahābhārata] :
2) —[Causal] -hāpayati, to drive away, remove, destroy, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa]
3) [=pra-hā] c f. a good throw at dice, any gain or advantage, [Ṛg-veda; Atharva-veda; Tāṇḍya-brāhmaṇa] (= pra-hantṛ, [Sāyaṇa])
4) Prāha (प्राह):—m. instruction in the art of dancing, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Prāha (प्राह):—[prā+ha] (haḥ) 1. m. Instruction in the art of acting and dancing.
Prahā (प्रहा):—(wohl hā mit pra) f. ein Spielausdruck, welcher einen günstigen Wurf oder Gewinnst bezeichnet; überh. Vorhand, Vortheil, Vorsprung: u.a pra.āmati.īvyā jayāti kṛ.aṃ yacchva.hnī vici.oti kā.e [Ṛgveda 10, 42, 9.] sā naḥ kṛ.āni sīṣa.ī pra.āmāpnotu mā.ayā [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 4, 38, 3.] āpnoti pūrveṣāṃ prahām [Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa 16, 14, 2. 20, 11, 4.]
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Prāha (प्राह):—m. Tanzunterricht [Śabdamālā im Śabdakalpadruma]
Prahā (प्रहा):—f. ein Spielausdruck , welcher einen günstigen Wurf oder Gewinnst anzeigt ; überh. Vorhand , Vortheil. Vorsprung.
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Prāha (प्राह):—m. Tanzunterricht.
Prahā (प्रहा) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Pajaha, Payaha, Pahā.
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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