वासक

{ vāsaka }

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : अडूसा

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

वासक  m.  1. m. scent, [Pañcar.]
वासक  f. also f( अका, इका). Gendarussa Vulgaris or Adhatoda Vasica, [VarBṛS.]; [Suśr.] &c.
वासक  mfn.  mfn. perfuming, fumigating, [MW.]
वासक    2. ( ifc.) = वास2 clothing, clothes, [Yājñ.]; [MBh. &c.] ( cf. अशुद्ध-व्°).
वासक  mfn.  3. mf( इका)n. causing to dwell or inhabit, populating, [MW.]
( ifc.) abode, habitation, [Yājñ.]
वासक  f.  n. ( ifc. f( आ).) a sleeping-room, bed-chamber, [Kathās.]
वासक  m.  4. m. (in music) a species of ध्रुवक ( q.v.), [Saṃgīt.]
वासक  m.  5. m. N. of a serpent-demon, [MBh.]
pl. N. of a people, [MārkP.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

वासक [vāsaka] a.  a. (-का or
-सिका  f. f.) [वास्-वस्-णिच् वा ण्वुल्]
Scenting, perfuming, infusing, fumigating &c.
Causing to dwell, populating.
-कः   Scent.
-का   (also वासिका)
An abode, habitation.
A bed-chamber.-कम् Clothes. -Comp.
-सज्जा, -सज्जिका   a woman who dresses herself in all her ornaments and keeps herself (and her house) ready to receive her lover, especially when he has made an appointment with her; an expectant heroine, one of the several classes of a Nāyikā; [S. D.] thus defines her: कुरुते मण्डनं यस्याः (या तु) सज्जिते वासवेश्मनि । सा तु वासकसज्जा स्याद्विदितप्रियसंगमा ॥ 12; भवति विलम्बिनि विगलितलज्जा विलपति रोदिति वासकसज्जा [Gīt.6.]

Shabda-Sagara

वासक  mf.  ( -कः-सका or सिका)
1. A shrub, (Justicia ganderussa.)
2. Perfuming.
E. वास् to perfume, aff. ण्वुल् .

ROOTS:

वास् ण्वुल् .