शारद mfn. (
-दः-दी-दं)
1. Modest, diffident.
2. New.
3. Produced in the sultry season.
4. Autumnal.
m. (
-दः)
1. A year.
2. Grain or rice ripening in the sultry season.
3. A sort of kidney-bean, yellow Mūng.
4. Autumnal sickness.
5. Sunshine, (in autumn.)
f. (
-दा) 1. A name of SARASWATĪ.
2. A title of DurGĀ.
3. A musical instrument, a sort of lute or guitar.
f. (
-दी)
1. A plant, (Jussieua, repens.)
2. A tree, (Echites scholaris.)
3. Day of full-moon in the month of Kārtika, (October-November.)
n. (
-दं)
1. The white lotus.
2. Corn, grain.
E. शरद् the autumn,
अण् aff.