Vadh, Vādh: 10 definitions
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Sanskrit dictionary
Vadh (वध्).—1 P. (vadhati) To slay, kill (not used in classical Sanskrit except as a substitute for han in the Aorist and Benedictive).
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Vādh (वाध्).—See वाध्, बाध, बाधक, बाधन-ना, बाधा (vādh, bādha, bādhaka, bādhana-nā, bādhā).
See also (synonyms): vādha, vādhaka, vādhana.
Vādh (वाध्).—[(ṛ)vādhṛ] r. 1st cl. (vādhate) To distress, to give pain: more correctly bādh .
Vadh (वध्).—see han.
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Vādh (वाध्).—vādha vādha, see bādh, bādha.
Vadh (वध्).—(vadhati) [Passive] vadhyate (ji) strike, slay, kill, destroy. [Causative] vadhayati = [Simple]
1) Vadh (वध्):—(also written badh; cf. √bādh; properly only used in the [Aorist] and Prec. tenses avadhīt and dhiṣṭa; vadhyāt and vadhiṣīṣṭa, [Pāṇini 2-4, 42 etc.; vi, 62]; the other tenses being supplied by √han; cf. [Dhātupāṭha xxiv, 2]; but in [Vedic or Veda] and [Epic] poetry also [present tense] vadhati; [Potential] vadhet; [future] vadhiṣyati, te; other [Vedic or Veda] forms are [Aorist] avadhīm, vahīm [subjunctive] vadhiṣaḥ; badhīḥ, [Taittirīya-āraṇyaka]; Prec. badhyāsam, suḥ, [Atharva-veda]),
—to strike, slay, kill, murder, defeat, destroy, [Ṛg-veda] etc. etc.:
—[Passive voice] vadhyate, ti ([Aorist] avadhi), to be slain or killed, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature]; etc. :
—[Causal] vadhayati, to kill, slay, [Mahābhārata] [a. [Greek] ὠθέω.]
2) Vādh (वाध्):—vādha etc. See √bādh.
Vādh (वाध्):—(ṛ) vādhate 1. d. To distress.
Vadh (वध्):—
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Vadh (वध्):—, vadhati (!) zu Nichte machen [KAṆ. 1, 1, 12.]
Vadh (वध्) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Vaha.
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
Vadh in Hindi refers in English to:—(nm) killing, murder; ~[jivi] a slaughterer; ~[sthala/sthali] a place of slaughter..—vadh (वध) is alternatively transliterated as Vadha.
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Nepali dictionary
Vadh is another spelling for वध [vadha].—n. slaughter; murder; killing; destruction;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
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Starts with (+26): Vadha, Vadha, Vadha Alopa Sahasakara Sutta, Vadhabandha, Vadhabandhana, Vadhabhaya, Vadhabhumi, Vadhadanda, Vadhadhippaya, Vadhahetu, Vadhajivin, Vadhaka, Vadhakama, Vadhakammadanda, Vadhakamya, Vadhakankshin, Vadhakarmadhikarin, Vadhakshama, Vadhakshepa, Vadhangaka.
Full-text (+68): Ghataka, Ghata, Ghatana, Nirvadh, Avadh, Paravadh, Abhivadh, Vivadh, Pravadh, Apavadh, Udvadh, Upavadh, Nivadh, Prativadh, Badh, Vadhatra, Vadhyata, Vadhyasthana, Vadhya, Vadhar.
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