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वा f. af. going
hurting
an arrow
weaving
वा n. 1.ind. or (excluded, like the Lat. ve, from the first place in a sentence, and generally immediately following, rarely and only m.c. preceding, the word to which it refers), [RV.] &c. &c. (often used in disjunctive sentences; वा-वा, ‘either’ — ‘or’, ‘on the one side’ — ‘on the other’; न वा — or न — , ‘neither’ — ‘nor’; वा न-वा, ‘either not’ — ‘or’; यदि वा-वा, ‘whether’ — ‘or’; in a sentence containing more than two members is nearly always repeated, although if a negative is in the first clause it need not be so repeated; is sometimes interchangeable with च and अपि, and is frequently combined with other particles, esp. with अथ, अथो-, उत, किम्, यद्, यदिq.v. [e.g. अथ वा, ‘or else’]; it is also sometimes used as an expletive)
वा either-or not, optionally, KātyŚr.; [Mn.] &c. (in gram. is used in a rule to denote its being optional e.g. [Pāṇ. 1-2, 13; 35 &c.] )
इव as, like (= ), [PārGṛ.] ; [MBh.] &c.
एव just, even, indeed, very (= , laying stress on the preceding word), KātyŚr.; [Kāv.]
but even if, even supposing (followed by a future), [Pañc. v, 36/37]
however, nevertheless, [Bādar.] ; [Bālar.]
किं वा शकुन्तलेत्य् अस्य मातुर् आख्या (after a rel. or interr.) possibly, perhaps, I dare say, [MBh.] ; [Kāv.] &c. (e.g. , ‘is his mother's name perhaps शकुन्तला?’ [Śak. vii, 20/21] ; को वा or के वा followed by a negative may in such cases be translated by ‘every one, all’ e.g. के वा न स्युः परिभव-पदं निष्फला-रम्-भ-यत्नाः, ‘everybody whose efforts are fruitless is an object of contempt’ [Megh. 55] ).
वा 2.cl. 2. P. ([Dhātup. xxiv, 42] ) वा॑ति (pf. ववौ, [Br.] ; [MBh.] &c.; aor. अवासीत्, [Br.] ; fut. वास्यति, [Megh.] ; inf. वातुम्, [Hariv.] ), to blow (as the wind), [RV.] &c. &c.; to procure or bestow anything (acc. ) by blowing, [RV. i, 89, 4] ; to blow towards or upon (acc. ), [MBh. xii, 2798] ; to emit an odour, be diffused (as perfume), [ŚBr.] ; to smell (trans.), [Vikr. iv, 41] (v.l. ); to hurt, injure, [Vop.] : Caus. वापयति See निर्-√ वा and cf. वाजय: Desid. विवासति See √ 1.वन्.
वा [cf. Gk. ἄημι for ϝαημι; Lat. ventus; Slav. vejati; Goth. waian, winds; Germ. wâjan, woejen, wehen, Wind; Angl.Sax. wâwan; Eng. wind.]
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