वहति

Sanskrit

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Definitions
  • to carry, transport, convey (with instr. of vehicle)
  • to lead, conduct (especially offerings to the gods, said of Agni)
  • to bear along (water, said of rivers)
  • to draw (a car), guide (horses etc.)
  • to lead towards, to bring, procure, bestow
  • to cause, effect
  • to offer (a sacrifice)
  • to spread, diffuse (scent)
  • to shed (tears)
  • to carry away, carry off, rob
  • to lead home, take to wife, marry
  • to bear or carry on or with
  • to take or carry with or about one's self, have, possess
  • to wear (clothes)
  • (with शिरस् (शिरस्)) to bear one's head (उच्चैश्तराम् (high))
  • (with वसुंधराम् (वसुंधराम्) or क्ष्मामण्डालम् (tr=kṣmā-maṇḍālam)) to support i.e. rule the earth
  • (with गर्भम् (गर्भम्)) to be with child
  • to bear, suffer, endure
  • to forbear, forgive, pardon
  • to undergo (with agnim, viṣam, tulām, 'the ordeal of fire, poison, and the balance')
  • to experience, feel
  • to exhibit, show, betray
  • to pay (a fine)
  • to pass, spend (time)
  • (intransitive) to drive, ride, go by or in (with instr. of the vehicle), be borne or carried along, run, swim
  • to draw (scil. a carriage, said of a horse)
  • to blow (as wind)
  • to pass away, elapse
  • to be drawn or borne by (+ instrumental) or along or off
  • (causative) to cause to bear or carry or convey or draw, drive (a chariot), guide or ride (a horse), propel (a boat), go or travel by any vehicle
  • (causative) to cause to guide
  • (causative) to cause any one (+ accusative) to carry anything (+accusative) on (+locative)
  • (causative) to cause to take in marriage
  • (causative) to cause to be conveyed by (+instrumental)
  • (causative) to traverse (a road)
  • (causative) to accomplish (a journey)
  • (causative) to employ, keep going or in work
  • (causative) to give, administer
  • (causative) to take in, deceive
  • (intensive) to carry hither and thither
  • to bear (a burden)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *wáźʰati inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáȷ́ʰati derived from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (move, transport, carry, ride, drag, go, drive, bring, draw, pull).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*weǵʰ-

Gloss

move, transport, carry, ride, drag, go, drive, bring, draw, pull

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

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