As a Hindi name
वाशी · noun · feminine
कुल्हाड़ी । कुठार · ध्वनि । स्वर · युद्ध का निनाद — Śabdasāgara
वाँ
Cited formation "वाशी" is वाश + -ई: वाश means "अड़ूसा । वासक", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "वाशी" is वाश + -ई: वाश means "अड़ूसा । वासक", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "वाशी" is वाश + -ई: वाश means "अड़ूसा । वासक", and the suffix -ई forms diminutives (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a sharp or pointed knife or a kind of axe, adze, chisel (esp. as the weapon of Agni or the Maruts, and the instrument of the Ṛbhus, while the paraśu or axe is that of Tvaṣṭṛ)
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M1 · same meaning "vāśī" is the nominative dual of "vāśi" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "vāśī" is the nominative of "vāśin" — the same word in a different grammatical case, derived from the stem's own paradigm.
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Dictionary citations
vāśī f. (also written vāsī; accord. to some connected with √ vraśc) a sharp or pointed knife or a kind of axe, adze, chisel (esp. as the weapon of Agni or the Maruts, and the instrument of the Ṛbhus, while the paraśu or axe is that of Tvaṣṭṛ), RV.; AV.; MBh.
sound, voice, Naigh. (cf. under 1. vāśa).
vāśī Ved. 1 Roaring, crying. 2 (pb) A weapon in general (such as an axe, spear &c.). 3 Voice, speech. 4 A war-cry.
vāśi m. ‘roaring’, fire or the god of fire, Uṇ. iv, 124, Sch.
vāśi m. (-śiḥ) Fire. E. vāśa to sound, Uṇādi aff. iñ.
vāśin mfn. (also written vāsin) howling, croaking &c., Kām. (cf. ghora-v˚).
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