Yadas, Yādas: 8 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Yādas (यादस्).—n.

1) Any (large) aquatic animal, a sea-monster; यादांसि जलजन्तवः (yādāṃsi jalajantavaḥ) Ak; वरुणो यादसामहम् (varuṇo yādasāmaham) Bhagavadgītā (Bombay) 1.29; Kirātārjunīya 5.29; R.1.16.

2) Water.

3) A river.

4) Semen.

5) Desire.

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

Yādas (यादस्).—n.

(-daḥ) Any aquatic or amphibious animal. E. to go, (with speed,) asun aff., and duk augment.

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

Yādas (यादस्).—n. Any aquatic animal. [Kirātārjunīya] 5, 29.

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

Yādas (यादस्).—[neuter] sea monster.

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

1) Yādas (यादस्):—[from yād] n. ‘close union (?)’, voluptuousness, [Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā; Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa]

2) [v.s. ...] any large aquatic animal, sea monster, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc. (sāṃ nāthaḥ, ‘lord of aq° an°’, Name of Varuṇa, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]; sāṃ prabhuḥ idem, [Rājataraṅgiṇī]; sām patiḥ idem or ‘the sea’ [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.])

3) [v.s. ...] water, [Naighaṇṭuka, commented on by Yāska i, 12]

4) [v.s. ...] semen, [Nirukta, by Yāska [Scholiast or Commentator]]

5) [v.s. ...] a river, [Siddhānta-kaumudī]

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

Yādas (यादस्):—(daḥ) 5. n. An aquatic or amphibious animal, fish, &c.

[Sanskrit to German]

Yadas in German

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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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