As a Hindi name
वह
that; he, she, it; that one (distal third person singular personal pronoun)
Śabdasāgara also records: यज्ञ कार्य के लिये साफ करके तैयार की हुई भूमि । वेदी · किसी शूभ कार्य के लिये बनाकर तैयार की हुई भूमि
Platts (p. 1208) also records: A place or ground prepared for sacrifice, &c. (i.q. bedī, q.v.)
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
an elevated (or according to some excavated) piece of ground serving for a sacrificial altar (generally strewed with Kuśa grass, and having receptacles for the sacrificial fire; it…
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M1 · same meaning "vedi" is the vocative of "vedin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "vedi" is the vocative of "vedī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
1. vedi m. a wise man, teacher, Paṇḍit, L.
vedi f. knowledge, science (see a-v˚)
a seal-ring (also ˚dikā), L.
2. vedi in comp. for 1. vedin.
3. vedi f. (later also vedī; for 1. 2. See col. 2) an elevated (or according to some excavated) piece of ground serving for a sacrificial altar (generally strewed with Kuśa grass, and having receptacles for the sacrificial fire; it is more or less raised and of various shapes, but usually narrow in the middle, on which account the female waist is often compared to it), RV. &c. &c.
1. vedin mfn. (for 2. 3. See col. 3) knowing, acquainted with or versed in (ifc.), Mn.; MBh. &c. (cf. sarva-v˚)
feeling, perceiving, MBh.; Pur.
vedī f. N. of Sarasvatī, L.
vedī See under 1. and 3. vedi.
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