As a Hindi name
वह
that; he, she, it; that one (distal third person singular personal pronoun)
Śabdasāgara also records: जोंक
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.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘hair-penetrating’, a leech
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Dictionary citations
veṇi—vedhanī f. ‘hair-penetrating’, a leech, L.
veṇivedhanī f. (-nī) A leech.
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