As a Hindi name
दाक · noun · masculine
दान करनेवाला व्याक्ति । दाता · यजमान — Śabdasāgara
दाक · dāk · s.m.
Giver, donor, one who makes presents (esp. to Brāhmans); the institutor of a sacrifice who employs and pays the officiating priests — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 501
दाक · dāk · s.f.
= dākh, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 501
Cited formation "दाक" is द + -आक: द means "the eighteenth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -आक forms doing habitually, efficiently (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(7) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a donor, Sch.
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M3 · meaning shifts "dāka" is derived from "dā" with the ka/kan suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
dā f. heat, pain, L.
1. dā cl. 3. dadāti (pl. ˚dati, RV. &c.; Ā. datte, Pañcat. i, 4, 19/20 12, 7; Subh.; 1. sg. dadmi, MBh. xii; Hariv.; R. i f.; Impv. dadātu, pl. ˚datu; 2. sg. daddhi, RV. i f.; iv, vi, viii, x; dehi [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 119] RV. iii f., viii, x; AV. v, xviii f. &c. ; 2. pl. dadāta, RV. vii, 57, 6, ˚tana, x, 36, 10, datta, 51, 8; VS.; AV. &c.; 2. du. ˚ttam, RV. i, 34, 6; AV. &c.; Pot. dadyāt, AV. &c.; impf. adadāt; pl. adadur, RV. vi, x; AV. v, 18, 1; 2. du. adattam, RV. &c.; 2. pl. ˚ttana, i, 139, 7, adadāta, x, 64, 12; Subj. dadat, ii, v, vii f., x, ˚das, vii f. ˚dan, AV. vi, 24, 1 p. m. nom. sg. dadat, pl. ˚tas, RV. &c.; p. Ā. dadāna, v, 33, 9; ˚na, i, 148, 2; v, 2, 3; sg. dadati, ii, 35, 10; MBh. iii, 13422; pl. ˚danti, xii f.; Impv. ˚da, ix; MārkP.; ˚data, Siṃhās.; Pot. ˚det, Parāś. vi, 19; impf. adadat, AV. xii, 4, 23; MBh.; R.; Ā. sg. dadate, RV. i, 24, 7; AV. x, 8, 36; pl. ˚dante, 35; VS. viii, 31; Impv. sg. ˚datām, RV. iii, 53, 17; ˚dasva, MBh.; Hariv. &c.; impf. pl. adadanta, RV. vii, 33, 11; AV. xiv; p. dadamāna, RV. i, 41, 9; iv, 26, 6; aor. adāt [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 77], dāt, adur, dur &c.; Subj. 2. du. dāsathas, RV. viii, 40, 1 [cf. Naigh. ii, 30]; Pot. 1. pl. deṣma, VS. ii, 32; pf. dadau, ˚dur, ˚dathur, ˚datur, ˚da, RV. &c.; Pass. ˚de, iv, 34 & 37; AV. x, 2, 16; dadade, ˚dāte, ˚dire, Pāṇ. vi, 4, 126, Kāś.; p. gen. daduṣas, RV. i, viii, ˚ṣām, vi; nom. ˚dvān, x, 132, 3; ˚dāvān, AV. v, 11, 1; acc. ˚divāṃsam, ix, 5, 10 [cf. Vop. xxvi, 133]; fut. p. dāsyat, AV. vi, 71, 3; Ā. ˚syate, ˚syante, 1. sg. ˚sye, MBh.; Hariv.; R.; MārkP.; Prec. deyāt, Pāṇ. vi, 4, 67; inf. dāvane, RV.; dātos, vii, 4, 6; ˚tave, vii-ix; AV. iii, 20, 5; dātavai [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 200; Siddh.] RV. iv, 21, 9; ˚tum, v; AV. &c.: ind.p. dattvāya [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 47, Kāś.] RV. x, 85, 33; ˚ttvā, AV. &c.; -dāya [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 69] RV. &c.: Pass. dīyate [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 62]; p. ˚yamāna, AV. ix; aor. adāyi, Pāṇ. vii, 3, 33, Kāś.; Prec. dāsīṣṭa, dāyiṣ˚, vi, 4, 62) cl. 1. dāti (RV. iv-vii; Impv. ˚tu, 15, 11; cf. Pāṇ. vi, 1, 8, Vārtt. 3, Pat.; ii, 4, 76, Kāś.) to give, bestow, grant, yield, impart, present, offer to (dat., in later language also gen. or loc.), RV. &c.; to give (a daughter, kanyām) in marriage, Mn. v, ix; Yājñ.; MBh. &c.; to hand over, Mn. viii, 186 & 234; (with haste), Kathās.; to give back, 222 f.; MBh. iii; Pañcat.; VP.; Kathās. lxxiv; to pay (daṇḍam, ‘a fine’, Mn. viii f.; ṛṇam, ‘a debt’, viii; Yājñ. ii, 45); to give up, cede (āsanam, ‘one's seat’), Mn. iv, 54; (panthānam or mārgam, ‘to give up the road, allow to pass’), viii, 275 & R. v, 94, 8; to sell (with instr. of the price), i; Nal. xiv, 21; VarBṛS. xlii, 11; to sacrifice (ātmānam, ‘one's self’, Kathās. xxii, 227; āt˚ khedāya, ‘to give one's self up to grief’, v, 57); to offer (an oblation &c.), Mn.; Yājñ.; R. &c.; to communicate, teach, utter (blessings, āśiṣas, Śak.; MārkP.), give (answer, prati-vacas, ˚canam, praty-uttaram, Nal.; Śak. &c.), speak (satyaṃ vacas, the truth, Yājñ. ii, 200; vacam, to address a speech to [dat.] Śak. vi, 5); to permit, allow (with inf.), MBh. i; Śak. vi, 22; to permit sexual intercourse, ŚBr. xiv, 9, 4, 7; to place, put, apply (in med.), Mn.; Yājñ.; MBh. &c.; to add, Pañcat. ii, 6, 5; Sūryas.; VarBṛS.; Laghuj.; with varam, ‘to grant a boon’, ŚBr. xi; KātyŚr.; MBh. &c.; śoham, ‘to cause grief’, xiii; R. ii; avakāśam, ‘to give room or space, allow to enter’, Yājñ. ii, 276; Mṛcch.; Ragh. &c.; prāṇān or jīvitam, ‘to spare any one's life’, MBh.; Kathās. xviii, 275; talam or ˚lān, to slap with the palms of the hands, MBh. iii, ix; Hariv. 15741; ˚la-prahāram, to strike with the palm, Pañcat. iv, 2, 0/1 tālam, to beat time with the hands, MBh. i; Bhaṭṭ.; saṃjñām, to make a sign, Mṛcch.; saṃketakam, to make an appointment, Pañcat. ii, 4, 3/4 samayam, to propose an agreement, Kathās. xviii, 139; upamām, to compare with [gen.] Cāṇ.; paṭaham, to proclaim with the drum, Kathās. lxxiii, 357; śabdam, to make a noise, call out, Vet. iv, 2/3; śāpam, to utter a curse, MBh.; R. &c.; gālīḥ. id., Bhartṛ.; anuyātram, to accompany, Kathās. xviii, 197; āliṅganane, parirambhaṇam, to embrace, 209; Gīt. iii, 8; jhampam, to jump, Hit.; śrāddham, to perform a Śrāddha, MBh. xiv; R. ii; vratakam, to accomplish a vow, Hariv.; yuddham, niy˚, saṃgrāmam, to give battle, fight with, MBh.; Hariv.; R.; ājñām, ādeśam, to give an order, command, i; BrahmaP.; Vet.; saṃdeśam, to give information, Kathās. xvii, 161; prayogam, to give a dramatic representation, Mālav. i, 11/12 vṛtim, to fence in Mn. viii, 240; Kull.; darśanam, to show one's self, Prab. iii, 0/1; dṛṣṭim, dṛśam, akṣi, cakṣus, to fix the eyes on (loc.), Śak. i, 6; Kathās.; Dhūrtas.; Śṛṅgārat.; Sāh.; karṇam, to give ear, listen, Śak.; Kathās.; manas, to direct the mind to (loc.), MBh. xii, 2526; kare kapolam, to rest the cheek on the hand, Kāraṇḍ. xviii, 73; nigaḍāni to put on or apply fetters, Mṛcch. vii, 6/7 pāvakam, to set on fire; agnīn to consume by fire, Mn. v, 168; śāram, to move a chess-man, Daś. vii, 137; argalam, to draw a bolt, bar, Kathās.; Rājat. vi, 96; jānu, to kneel upon (gen.), MBh. iii f.; padam, to tread upon [loc.] Bhartṛ.; Hit. ii, 12, 25; SŚaṃkar. i, 38; to direct the steps, Amar. 74; viṣam, to poison, Pañcar. i, 14, 80 (with acc.!); garam id., VP. iv, 3, 16 (with gen.); — Ā. to carry, hold, keep, preserve, RV.; AV.; VS.; to show, SV. i, 2, 1, 4, 7 (aor. adadiṣṭa; aded˚ fr. √ diś, RV.) : Caus. dāpayati (Pāṇ. vii, 3, 36; aor. adīdapat, 4, 1 and 58, Kāś.) to cause to give or be given, cause to bestow or present or give up, oblige to pay, make restore, VS. ix, 24; AV. iii, 20, 8; Mn. &c.; to demand from (abl.), Mn. viii, 47; to cause to utter or speak, Hariv. 15782; Yājñ. ii, 6/7 ghoṣaṇām, to cause to be made known, Kathās. lxiv, 86; to cause to place or advance, xii, 160; to cause to perform, v, 112 to cause to be put on (loc.), MBh. i, 5724 : Desid. ditsati (Pāṇ. vii, 4, 54 and 58; p. didāsat, RV. x, 151, 2; ditsat, ii, vii-ix; AV. v, 7, 6; MBh.; Pot. ˚tseyam, RV. viii; MBh.; pf. 2. sg. didāsitha, AitBr. viii, 21; ŚāṅkhŚr. xvi, 16; cf. ŚBr. xiii, 7, 1, 15) to wish to give, be ready to bestow, RV. &c.; to wish to give in marriage, MBh. &c.: Intens. dedīyate, Pāṇ. vi, 4, 66, Kāś.;
dāka m. a donor, Uṇ. iii, 40, Sch.
a sacrificer, ib.
Dictionary citations
dāka m. a donor, Uṇ. iii, 40, Sch.
a sacrificer, ib.
dāka, dāti, dātṛ, dānaṃ, dānu, &c. See under dā.
dāka m. (-kaḥ) 1 A donor, one who makes presents, especially to Brahmans. 2 A sacrificer, one who pays all the expenses of the ceremony, and employs the officiating priests. E. dā to give, ka Uṇādi aff.
dā f. heat, pain, L.
1. dā cl. 3. dadāti (pl. ˚dati, RV. &c.; Ā. datte, Pañcat. i, 4, 19/20 12, 7; Subh.; 1. sg. dadmi, MBh. xii; Hariv.; R. i f.; Impv. dadātu, pl. ˚datu; 2. sg. daddhi, RV. i f.; iv, vi, viii, x; dehi [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 119] RV. iii f., viii, x; AV. v, xviii f. &c. ; 2. pl. dadāta, RV. vii, 57, 6, ˚tana, x, 36, 10, datta, 51, 8; VS.; AV. &c.; 2. du. ˚ttam, RV. i, 34, 6; AV. &c.; Pot. dadyāt, AV. &c.; impf. adadāt; pl. adadur, RV. vi, x; AV. v, 18, 1; 2. du. adattam, RV. &c.; 2. pl. ˚ttana, i, 139, 7, adadāta, x, 64, 12; Subj. dadat, ii, v, vii f., x, ˚das, vii f. ˚dan, AV. vi, 24, 1 p. m. nom. sg. dadat, pl. ˚tas, RV. &c.; p. Ā. dadāna, v, 33, 9; ˚na, i, 148, 2; v, 2, 3; sg. dadati, ii, 35, 10; MBh. iii, 13422; pl. ˚danti, xii f.; Impv. ˚da, ix; MārkP.; ˚data, Siṃhās.; Pot. ˚det, Parāś. vi, 19; impf. adadat, AV. xii, 4, 23; MBh.; R.; Ā. sg. dadate, RV. i, 24, 7; AV. x, 8, 36; pl. ˚dante, 35; VS. viii, 31; Impv. sg. ˚datām, RV. iii, 53, 17; ˚dasva, MBh.; Hariv. &c.; impf. pl. adadanta, RV. vii, 33, 11; AV. xiv; p. dadamāna, RV. i, 41, 9; iv, 26, 6; aor. adāt [Pāṇ. ii, 4, 77], dāt, adur, dur &c.; Subj. 2. du. dāsathas, RV. viii, 40, 1 [cf. Naigh. ii, 30]; Pot. 1. pl. deṣma, VS. ii, 32; pf. dadau, ˚dur, ˚dathur, ˚datur, ˚da, RV. &c.; Pass. ˚de, iv, 34 & 37; AV. x, 2, 16; dadade, ˚dāte, ˚dire, Pāṇ. vi, 4, 126, Kāś.; p. gen. daduṣas, RV. i, viii, ˚ṣām, vi; nom. ˚dvān, x, 132, 3; ˚dāvān, AV. v, 11, 1; acc. ˚divāṃsam, ix, 5, 10 [cf. Vop. xxvi, 133]; fut. p. dāsyat, AV. vi, 71, 3; Ā. ˚syate, ˚syante, 1. sg. ˚sye, MBh.; Hariv.; R.; MārkP.; Prec. deyāt, Pāṇ. vi, 4, 67; inf. dāvane, RV.; dātos, vii, 4, 6; ˚tave, vii-ix; AV. iii, 20, 5; dātavai [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 200; Siddh.] RV. iv, 21, 9; ˚tum, v; AV. &c.: ind.p. dattvāya [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 47, Kāś.] RV. x, 85, 33; ˚ttvā, AV. &c.; -dāya [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 69] RV. &c.: Pass. dīyate [Pāṇ. vi, 4, 62]; p. ˚yamāna, AV. ix; aor. adāyi, Pāṇ. vii, 3, 33, Kāś.; Prec. dāsīṣṭa, dāyiṣ˚, vi, 4, 62) cl. 1. dāti (RV. iv-vii; Impv. ˚tu, 15, 11; cf. Pāṇ. vi, 1, 8, Vārtt. 3, Pat.; ii, 4, 76, Kāś.) to give, bestow, grant, yield, impart, present, offer to (dat., in later language also gen. or loc.), RV. &c.; to give (a daughter, kanyām) in marriage, Mn. v, ix; Yājñ.; MBh. &c.; to hand over, Mn. viii, 186 & 234; (with haste), Kathās.; to give back, 222 f.; MBh. iii; Pañcat.; VP.; Kathās. lxxiv; to pay (daṇḍam, ‘a fine’, Mn. viii f.; ṛṇam, ‘a debt’, viii; Yājñ. ii, 45); to give up, cede (āsanam, ‘one's seat’), Mn. iv, 54; (panthānam or mārgam, ‘to give up the road, allow to pass’), viii, 275 & R. v, 94, 8; to sell (with instr. of the price), i; Nal. xiv, 21; VarBṛS. xlii, 11; to sacrifice (ātmānam, ‘one's self’, Kathās. xxii, 227; āt˚ khedāya, ‘to give one's self up to grief’, v, 57); to offer (an oblation &c.), Mn.; Yājñ.; R. &c.; to communicate, teach, utter (blessings, āśiṣas, Śak.; MārkP.), give (answer, prati-vacas, ˚canam, praty-uttaram, Nal.; Śak. &c.), speak (satyaṃ vacas, the truth, Yājñ. ii, 200; vacam, to address a speech to [dat.] Śak. vi, 5); to permit, allow (with inf.), MBh. i; Śak. vi, 22; to permit sexual intercourse, ŚBr. xiv, 9, 4, 7; to place, put, apply (in med.), Mn.; Yājñ.; MBh. &c.; to add, Pañcat. ii, 6, 5; Sūryas.; VarBṛS.; Laghuj.; with varam, ‘to grant a boon’, ŚBr. xi; KātyŚr.; MBh. &c.; śoham, ‘to cause grief’, xiii; R. ii; avakāśam, ‘to give room or space, allow to enter’, Yājñ. ii, 276; Mṛcch.; Ragh. &c.; prāṇān or jīvitam, ‘to spare any one's life’, MBh.; Kathās. xviii, 275; talam or ˚lān, to slap with the palms of the hands, MBh. iii, ix; Hariv. 15741; ˚la-prahāram, to strike with the palm, Pañcat. iv, 2, 0/1 tālam, to beat time with the hands, MBh. i; Bhaṭṭ.; saṃjñām, to make a sign, Mṛcch.; saṃketakam, to make an appointment, Pañcat. ii, 4, 3/4 samayam, to propose an agreement, Kathās. xviii, 139; upamām, to compare with [gen.] Cāṇ.; paṭaham, to proclaim with the drum, Kathās. lxxiii, 357; śabdam, to make a noise, call out, Vet. iv, 2/3; śāpam, to utter a curse, MBh.; R. &c.; gālīḥ. id., Bhartṛ.; anuyātram, to accompany, Kathās. xviii, 197; āliṅganane, parirambhaṇam, to embrace, 209; Gīt. iii, 8; jhampam, to jump, Hit.; śrāddham, to perform a Śrāddha, MBh. xiv; R. ii; vratakam, to accomplish a vow, Hariv.; yuddham, niy˚, saṃgrāmam, to give battle, fight with, MBh.; Hariv.; R.; ājñām, ādeśam, to give an order, command, i; BrahmaP.; Vet.; saṃdeśam, to give information, Kathās. xvii, 161; prayogam, to give a dramatic representation, Mālav. i, 11/12 vṛtim, to fence in Mn. viii, 240; Kull.; darśanam, to show one's self, Prab. iii, 0/1; dṛṣṭim, dṛśam, akṣi, cakṣus, to fix the eyes on (loc.), Śak. i, 6; Kathās.; Dhūrtas.; Śṛṅgārat.; Sāh.; karṇam, to give ear, listen, Śak.; Kathās.; manas, to direct the mind to (loc.), MBh. xii, 2526; kare kapolam, to rest the cheek on the hand, Kāraṇḍ. xviii, 73; nigaḍāni to put on or apply fetters, Mṛcch. vii, 6/7 pāvakam, to set on fire; agnīn to consume by fire, Mn. v, 168; śāram, to move a chess-man, Daś. vii, 137; argalam, to draw a bolt, bar, Kathās.; Rājat. vi, 96; jānu, to kneel upon (gen.), MBh. iii f.; padam, to tread upon [loc.] Bhartṛ.; Hit. ii, 12, 25; SŚaṃkar. i, 38; to direct the steps, Amar. 74; viṣam, to poison, Pañcar. i, 14, 80 (with acc.!); garam id., VP. iv, 3, 16 (with gen.); — Ā. to carry, hold, keep, preserve, RV.; AV.; VS.; to show, SV. i, 2, 1, 4, 7 (aor. adadiṣṭa; aded˚ fr. √ diś, RV.) : Caus. dāpayati (Pāṇ. vii, 3, 36; aor. adīdapat, 4, 1 and 58, Kāś.) to cause to give or be given, cause to bestow or present or give up, oblige to pay, make restore, VS. ix, 24; AV. iii, 20, 8; Mn. &c.; to demand from (abl.), Mn. viii, 47; to cause to utter or speak, Hariv. 15782; Yājñ. ii, 6/7 ghoṣaṇām, to cause to be made known, Kathās. lxiv, 86; to cause to place or advance, xii, 160; to cause to perform, v, 112 to cause to be put on (loc.), MBh. i, 5724 : Desid. ditsati (Pāṇ. vii, 4, 54 and 58; p. didāsat, RV. x, 151, 2; ditsat, ii, vii-ix; AV. v, 7, 6; MBh.; Pot. ˚tseyam, RV. viii; MBh.; pf. 2. sg. didāsitha, AitBr. viii, 21; ŚāṅkhŚr. xvi, 16; cf. ŚBr. xiii, 7, 1, 15) to wish to give, be ready to bestow, RV. &c.; to wish to give in marriage, MBh. &c.: Intens. dedīyate, Pāṇ. vi, 4, 66, Kāś.;
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