पद

Definitions

• step, pace, stride
• footstep, trace, vestige, mark; the foot itself
• sign, token, characteristic
• footing, standpoint
• position, rank, station, site, abode, home, place
• business affair, matter, object or cause of (genitive or compound)
• pretext
• part, portion, division
• (chess) square on a chessboard
• plot of ground
• the foot as a measure of length (= 12 or 15 fingers' breadth, or 1/2 or 1/3 or 3/7 of a प्रक्रम (प्रक्रम))
• ray of light
• (poetry) a portion of a verse, quarter or line of a stanza
• a word or an inflected word or the stem of a noun in the middle cases and before some तद्धित (तद्धित)s
• = पदपाठ (tr=pada-pāṭha)
• common name of the parasmaipada and ātmanepada
• any one in a set of numbers the sum of which is required
• a period in an arithmetical progression
• square root
• quadrant
• protection