As a Hindi name
ते
^२ सर्व [सं॰ ते] वे । वे लोग — Śabdasāgara
ते · te · pron.
tā = wǒh — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 350
ते · te · postpn.
(old H.) = se, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 350
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
With or by thee. E. te substituted for tvayā, but not to be confounded with the optional inflection of the 4th and 6th cases of yuṣmad thou.
Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "te" is the nominative dual of "tā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "te" is the nominative plural of "tad" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "te" is the locative of "ta" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "te" is the dative of "yuṣmad" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
te ind. With or by thee. E. te substituted for tvayā, but not to be confounded with the optional inflection of the 4th and 6th cases of yuṣmad thou.
tā f. Lakṣmī, L.
tad (nom. and acc. sg. n. of and base in comp. for 2. ta from which latter all the cases of this pron. are formed except nom. sg. m. sas or sa & f. sā; instr. pl. tais, AV. &c.; Ved. tebhis, RV.; AV. &c.) m. he f. she n. it, that, this (often correlative of ya generally standing in the preceding clause, e.g. yasya buddhiḥ sa balavān, ‘of whom there is intellect he is strong’; sometimes, for the sake of emphasis, connected with the 1st and 2nd personal pronouns, with other demonstratives and with relatives, e.g. so 'ham, ‘I that very person, I myself’ [tasya = mama, Nal. xv, 10]; tāv imau, ‘those very two’; tad etad ākhyānam, ‘that very tale’, AitBr. vii, 18; yat tat kāraṇam, ‘that very reason which’, Mn. i, 11; yā sā śrī, ‘that very fortune which’, MBh. vii, 427), RV. &c.
tad (tad) n. this world (cf. idam), R. vi, 102, 25
1. ta the 1st dental consonant.
2. ta pronom. base See tad
yuṣmad the base of the 2nd pers. pron. as used in comp.
also considered by native grammarians to be the base of the cases yuṣmān &c. (see above).
Alternative readings
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