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नपात् m. नपात् or नप्तृ, m. (the former stem only in the strong cases and earlier lang.; the latter in Class., but acc. नप्तारम् appears in [TS.] and, [AitBr.] ) descendant, offspring, son (in this meaning esp. in [RV.] , e.g. अपां न्°, ऊर्जो न्°, दिवो न्°, विमुचो न्° &c.) grandson (in later lang. restricted to this sense), [RV.] &c. &c. N. of one of the विश्वेदेवाs, [MBh. xiii, 4362] path of the gods (?), [Mahīdh.] on [VS. xix, 56] granddaughter (?), [Uṇ. ii, 96] Sch. नपात् [Prob. neither = नपत् ( [Uṇ. ii, 96] ) nor नपात् ( [Pāṇ. 6-3, 75] ), and of very questionable connection with √ नभ्, or नह्; cf. Zd. napāt, naptar; Gk. νέποδες, ἀνεψιός; Lat. nepōt-em; Angl.Sax. nefa; H. Germ. nëvo, nëve, Neffe.]
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