पतति

Sanskrit

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Definitions
  • to fly, soar, rush on
  • to fall down or off, alight, descend (with accusative or locative), fall or sink
  • (figurative) to fall (in a moral sense), lose caste or rank or position
  • to light or fall upon, fall to a person's share (+ locative)
  • to fall or get into or among (loc.)
  • to occur, come to pass, happen
  • (causative) to fly or move rapidly along
  • (causative) to speed
  • (causative) to drive away or throw down
  • (causative) to let fly or cause to fall, to fling, hurl, throw
  • to lay low, bring down (literally and figuratively), overthrow, ruin, destroy, to throw upon or in, lay on (+ locative)
  • to throw oneself
  • to cut off (a head)
  • to knock out (teeth)
  • to pour out or shed (water, tears)
  • to kindle (fire)
  • to cast (dice)
  • to turn, direct, fix (eyes)
  • to impose or inflict (punishment)
  • to set in motion, set on foot
  • to seduce to, betray into (+ locative)
  • to divide in two
  • to subtract
  • to rush on, hasten
  • (desiderative) to be about to fly or fall (पिपतिषति; पित्सति)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *pátati inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pátati inherited from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂eti (fall, fly).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*péth₂eti

Gloss

fall, fly

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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