Shakvara, Śakvara, Śākvara: 8 definitions
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The Sanskrit terms Śakvara and Śākvara can be transliterated into English as Sakvara or Shakvara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryŚakvara (शक्वर).—A bull, an ox.
-rī 1 A finger.
2) fingerring.
3) A girdle, zone.
4) A cow.
5) Name of a Sāman; एताः शक्वर्यो लोकेषु प्रोताः (etāḥ śakvaryo lokeṣu protāḥ) Ch. Up.2.17.1.
Derivable forms: śakvaraḥ (शक्वरः).
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Śākvara (शाक्वर).—An ox; cf. शाक्वर (śākvara); Hch.7.
Derivable forms: śākvaraḥ (शाक्वरः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚakvara (शक्वर).—m.
(-raḥ) A bull, an ox. f. (-rī) 1. A finger. 2. A river. 3. A zone, a girdle. 4. A form of metre, a stanza of four lines of fourteen syllables each, and comprising many varieties according to the different Padas of which the lines are composed. E. śak to be able or strong, kvarap aff., or vanip aff. with ra augment, and the final rejected: the feminine form is also derived from śakvan with ṅīp affix, and ra augment, and the word is also read śakkara and śakkarī .
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Śākvara (शाक्वर).—m.
(-raḥ) An ox. E. śak-ṣvarap svārthe aṇ .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚakvara (शक्वर).— (cf. śakkara), I. m. A bull. Ii. f. rī. 1. A finger-ring. 2. A zone. Cf. the last.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚakvara (शक्वर).—[masculine] bull.
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Śākvara (शाक्वर).—[feminine] ī strong, mighty.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Śakvara (शक्वर):—[from śak] m. a bull, [Harṣacarita; Kāmandakīya-nītisāra [Scholiast or Commentator]]
2) Śakvarā (शक्वरा):—[from śakvara > śak] f. gravel, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] ([probably] [wrong reading] for śarkarā).
3) Śākvara (शाक्वर):—mfn. ([from] śakvara) mighty, powerful, strong (applied to Indra, the thunderbolt etc.), [Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā; Atharva-veda; Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa]
4) relating to the Sāman Śakvara (or to the Śakvarī verses), [Taittirīya-saṃhitā; Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa]
5) an imaginary kind of Soma, [Suśruta] ([wrong reading] śāṃkara)
6) m. a bull, ox, [Harṣacarita]
7) n. a kind of observance or ceremony, [Śāṅkhāyana-gṛhya-sūtra]
8) Name of a Sāman (one of the six chief forms, based upon the Śakvarī verses), [Ārṣeya-brāhmaṇa]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚakvara (शक्वर):—(raḥ) 1. m. A bull. f. (ī) A finger; a river; a girdle; a metre.
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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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusŚakvara (ಶಕ್ವರ):—[noun] a bull.
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Śākvara (ಶಾಕ್ವರ):—
1) [noun] a bull.
2) [noun] the second of the twelve zodiac signs; the Taurus.
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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Starts with: Shakvaragarbha, Shakvarapathya, Shakvaraprishtha, Shakvaravarna.
Ends with: Atishakvara.
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