वशा

{ vaśā }

A dictionary, Marathi and English

   A surveyor or overseer of fields, crops, and the operations of reaping, thrashing &c. employed by the proprietor as a guard again the appropriations of the actual cultivator. The word is much the same with साणा q.v.

महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश

  पु. शेतकामावर देखरेख करणारा , शेत राखणारा इसम ; शेताचा रखवालदार . साणा पहा . गांव तर आज पांच वर्षे झाली अगदी वशाड पडला आहे ! - सह्याद्री ८९ .
   ( कु . ) वाईट . वशाडी - स्त्री . ओसाडपणा ; वसाडी . ओसाडी पहा .

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

वशा  f.  a f. See below
वशा  f.  b f. (rather fr. √ वाश्, as ‘the lowing animal’, than fr. √ वश्) a cow ( esp. barren), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [GṛŚrS.]
अवी   (with ) a ewe, [TS.]; [TBr.]
   a female elephant, [Vikr.]; [Kathās.]
   a barren woman, [Mn. viii, 28]
   any woman or wife, [L.]
   a daughter, [L.]
    Premna Spinosa and Longifolia, [L.]
वशा   [ cf. accord. to some, Lat. vacca.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

वशा [vaśā]   [वश्-अच्]
   A woman.
   A wife.
   A daughter.
   A husband's sister.
   A cow.
   A barren woman; वशाऽपुत्रासु चैवं स्याद्रक्षणं निष्कुलासु च [Ms.8.28.]
   A barren cow.
   A female elephant; स्त्रीरत्नेषु ममोर्वशी प्रियतमा यूथे तवेयं वशा [V.4.25.]
   A harlot; L. D. B.-Comp.
-पायिन्  m. m. a dog; L. D. B.
-लोभः   A method of catching elephants by seducing them with females; [Mātaṅga L.1.7.]