As a Hindi name
लाय · noun · feminine
लपट । ज्वाला · आग । अग्नि — Śabdasāgara
लाय · lāʼe · s.f.
(dialec.) = lāhe, q.v — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 948
Cited formation "लाय" is ला- + य: य means "the twenty-sixth consonant in Hindi", and the prefix ला- forms without. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §5(4) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a missile, weapon, (accord. to = saṃśleṣaṇa, hṛdaya-vedhin).
Verified derivationMultiple readings (15)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "lāya" is the dative of "la" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
lāya m. (perhaps fr. √ li = rī, to set in motion, throw) a missile, weapon, RV. x, 42, 1 (accord. to Sāy. = saṃśleṣaṇa, hṛdaya-vedhin).
1. la the 3rd semivowel (corresponding to the vowels ḷ, ḹ, and having the sound of the English l)
a technical term for all the tenses and moods of a finite verb or for the terminations of those tenses and moods (also applied to some forms with kṛt affixes construed like a finite verb, Pāṇ. ii, 3, 69; cf. iii, 2, 124, and when accompanied by certain indicatory letters denoting each tense separately See laṭ; laṅ; liṅ; loṭ; liṭ; luṭ; ḷṭ; luṅ; ḷṅ; leṭ), Pāṇ. iii, 4, 69; 77, Sch.
Alternative readings
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