Epic and Narrative Sanskrit Vocabulary: Basic 4 Nāgarī

Question 1

तेजस्-

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(n.) ‘brilliance, brightness; blaze, heat’

Question 2

तेन

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(ind) ‘by this’: ‘thus’

Question 3

√त्यज्

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(I tyajati) ‘leave, abandon’

Question 4

त्रि-

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(num) ‘three’

Question 5

त्वम्

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(pron) ‘you’ (tvam NOM SG, tvayā INS SG, te GENDAT SG; stem form tvad-)

Question 6

दक्षिण-

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(adj) ‘southern; right (vs. left); clever, able’

Question 7

दण्ड-

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(m.) ‘stick; punishment’

Question 8

दर्शन-

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(n.) ‘sight, view; world-view, philosophy, religion’

Question 9

दश-

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(num) ‘ten’

Question 10

√दह्

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(I dahati) ‘burn’

Question 11

√दा

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(III dadāti) ‘give’

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आ-√दा

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‘take, receive’, ABS ādāya lit. ‘having taken’: ‘with’

Question 13

दानव-

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(m.) ‘dānava, demon’

Question 14

दार-

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(m., usually pl.) ‘wife’

Question 15

दारुण-

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(adj) ‘harsh, rough’

Question 16

दिव्य-

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(adj) ‘divine, heavenly’

Question 17

√दिश्

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(VI diśati) ‘show, point out’

Question 18

दिश्-

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(f.) ‘direction’; diśaḥ ‘the directions: the entire world’

Question 19

दीन-

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(adj) ‘miserable, wretched’

Question 20

√दीप्

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(IV dīpyate) ‘shine, glow, burn’

Question 21

दीर्घ-

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(adj) ‘long; tall’

Question 22

दुःख-

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(n.) ‘unhappiness’, (adj) ‘unhappy’

Question 23

दुःखित-

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(adj) ‘unhappy’

Question 24

दूत-

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(m.) ‘messenger’

Question 25

√दृश्

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(irreg paśyati) ‘see'; CAUS darśayati ‘show'

Question 26

देव-

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(m.) ‘god, deity; lord, master’, in VOC ‘your highness, my lord’

Question 27

देवता-

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(f.) ‘deity’

Question 28

देवी-

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(f.) ‘goddess; mistress’, in VOC ‘milady’

Question 29

देश-

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(m.) ‘land, country’

Question 30

√द्रु

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(I dravati) ‘run’

Question 31

द्रुम-

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(m.) ‘tree’

Question 32

द्वार-

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(n.) ‘door; gateway’

Question 33

द्वि-

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(adj) ‘two’

Question 34

धन-

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(n.) ‘possessions; wealth’

Question 35

धनुस्-

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(n.) ‘bow’ (as in ‘bow and arrow’)

Question 36

धर्म-

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(m.) ‘morality, righteousness; (religious/caste-based) duty, obligation; dharma'

Question 37

√धा

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(III dadhāti) ‘put’

Question 38

वि-√धा

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(III vidadhāti) ‘perform, do, arrange'

Question 39

अभि-√धा

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(III abhidadhāti) ‘utter, say'

Question 40

धी-मत्-

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(adj) ‘intelligent’

Question 41

√धृ

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(X dhārayati) ‘hold, carry'

Question 42

न

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(ind) ‘not’

Question 43

नगर-

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(n.) ‘city, town’

Question 44

नगरी-

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(f.) ‘city, town’

Question 45

नदी-

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(f.) ‘river’

Question 46

नर-

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(m.) ‘man’

Question 47

नाग-

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(m.) ‘snake’

Question 48

नाथ-

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(m.) ‘protector; lord; husband’

Question 49

नाना

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(ind or pref) ‘variously, differently’

Question 50

नाम

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(ind) ‘named, called; indeed’

Question 51

नामन्-

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(n.) ‘name’; (ifc) ‘called’