As a Hindi name
वे · pron
वह का बहुवचन या संमानवाचक रूप । जैसे,—(क) वे लोग चले गए । (ख) वे आज न आवेंगे · पत्नी द्वारा पति के लिये प्रयुक्त अन्य पुरुष का सर्वनाम — Śabdasāgara
वे · we. · pron.
(dialec.) वै wai, waʼe [Ap. Prk. एवण्ह, see wah — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1206
वह
that; he, she, it; that one (distal third person singular personal pronoun)
वे · feminine,masculine
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit अदस् — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Uncertain, but most likely from Old Hindi उहु (uhu), उहुं (uhuṃ), from Apabhramsa ओहु (ohu), from Prakrit अहो (aho), from Sanskrit अ॒सौ m (asáu, “that”). The inflected forms are formed by analogy with its proximal counterpart यह (yah) or with सो (so) ~ तिस (tis), the archaic thir…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
adas nom. m. f. asau (voc. asau, MaitrS.) (n. adas), (opposed to idam, q.v.), that, a certain
adas (adas) ind. thus, so, there.
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit *अव — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Old Hindi वे (ve), वै (vai), from Apabhramsa ओइ (oi), perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit *अव (*ava), attested in अवोष् (avoṣ), अवोर् (avor, “of you both”, gen. du.), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *avá. Compare Avestan 𐬀𐬬𐬀 (ava).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a bird (strong stem of 1. vi, q.v.)
Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "ve" is the nominative dual of "vā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "ve" is the locative of "va" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "ve" is the vocative of "vi" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "ve" is the nominative dual of "veman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
1. ve (cf. √ ūy) cl. 1. P. Ā. (Dhātup. xxiii, 37) vayati, ˚te (pf. p. vavau or uvāya; 2. sg. uvayitha Gr.; 3. pl. vavuḥ, ib.; ūvuḥ, RV.; ūyuḥ, Bhaṭṭ.; Ā. vave, ūve, ūye Gr.; aor. avāsīt, avāsta Gr.; Prec. ūyāt, vāsīṣṭa, ib.; fut. vātā, ib.; vāsyati, ˚te, ib.; vayiṣyati, RV.; inf. otum, otave, otavai, ib.; vātave, AV.), to weave, interweave, braid, plait (fig. to string or join together artificially, make, compose, e.g. speeches, hymns), RV. &c. &c.; to make into a cover, into a web or web-like covering, overspread as with a web (said of a cloud-like mass of arrows filling the air), Bhaṭṭ. : Pass. ūyate (aor. avāyi) Gr.: Caus. vāyayati, ib. : Desid. vivāsati, ˚te, ib. : Intens. vāvāyate, vāveti, vāvāti, ib.
2. ve m. a bird (strong stem of 1. vi, q.v.)
ve 1 U. (vayati-te, uta; caus. vāyayati-te) 1 To weave; sitāṃśuvarṇairvayati sma tadguṇaiḥ N. 1. 12. 2 To braid, plait. 3 To sew. 4 To cover. 5 To make, compose, string together.
ve r. 1st cl. (vayati vayate) To weave.
vā f. going
hurting
1. va the 3rd semivowel (corresponding to the vowels u and ū, and having the sound of the English v, except when forming the last member of a conjunct consonant, in which case it is pronounced like w; it is often confounded and interchanged with the labial consonant b).
2. va m. (only L.) air, wind
1. vi m. (nom. vis or ves acc. vim gen. abl. ves; pl. nom. acc. vayas [acc. vīn, Bhaṭṭ.]; vibhis, vibhyas, vīnām) a bird (also applied to horses, arrows, and the Maruts), RV.; VS.; PañcavBr., (also occurring in later language).
vi [cf. 1. vayas; Gk. οἰωνός for ὀϝιωνος; Lat. a-vis; accord. to some Germ. Ei; Angl.Sax. ǽg; Eng. egg.]
veman n. (L. also m.) a loom, VS.
a slay, TBr., Sch.
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