As a Hindi name
वाचा · noun · feminine
वाणी । सरस्वती · वाक्य । वचन । शब्द · सूक्त । ऋचा (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
वाचा · adj
वचन द्वारा । वचन या कथन से — Śabdasāgara
वाचा · vāćā · s.f.
Speech, &c. (i.q. vāć) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1172
वाँ
Cited formation "वाचा" is वाच + -आ: वाच means "Speech, voice, talk, speaking, language, discourse", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "वाचा" is वाचना + -आ: वाचना means "पाठ", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "वाचा" is वाच + -आ: वाच means "Speech, voice, talk, speaking, language, discourse", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
speech, a word, Sch. &c.
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M1 · same meaning "vācā" is the instrumental of "vāc" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "vācā" is the feminine form of "vāca" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M3 · meaning shifts "vāca" is derived from "vāc" with the aṇ/añ suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
vāc f. (fr. √ vac) speech, voice, talk, language (also of animals), sound (also of inanimate objects as of the stones used for pressing, of a drum &c.), RV. &c. &c. (vācam-√ ṛ, īr, or iṣ, to raise the voice, utter a sound, cry, call)
a word, saying, phrase, sentence, statement, asseveration, Mn.; MBh. &c. (vācaṃ-√ vad, to speak words; vācaṃ vyā-√ hṛ, to utter words; vācaṃ-√ dā with dat., to address words to; vācā satyaṃ-√ kṛ, to promise verbally in marriage, plight troth)
vāca m. (only L.) a species of fish
a species of plant
Related forms
Dictionary citations
1. vācā f. speech, a word, Pañcat.; KātyŚr., Sch. &c.
the goddess of sp˚, Uṇ. ii, 57, Sch.
a holy word, sacred text, MW.
an oath, ib.
w.r. for vacā, MBh. xiii, 6149.
vāc f. (fr. √ vac) speech, voice, talk, language (also of animals), sound (also of inanimate objects as of the stones used for pressing, of a drum &c.), RV. &c. &c. (vācam-√ ṛ, īr, or iṣ, to raise the voice, utter a sound, cry, call)
a word, saying, phrase, sentence, statement, asseveration, Mn.; MBh. &c. (vācaṃ-√ vad, to speak words; vācaṃ vyā-√ hṛ, to utter words; vācaṃ-√ dā with dat., to address words to; vācā satyaṃ-√ kṛ, to promise verbally in marriage, plight troth)
vāca m. (only L.) a species of fish
a species of plant
Alternative readings
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