"वाच्" meaning in Sanskrit

See वाच् in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ʋɑ́ːt͡ɕ/ [Vedic], /ʋɑːt͡ɕ/ [Classical-Sanskrit]
Etymology: From Proto-Indo-Iranian *wā́kš (“speech, voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs (“speech, voice”), from *wekʷ- (“to speak”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬑𐬱 (vāxš), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), Latin vōx, Persian آواز (âvâz), English voice (via Latin and Old French). Etymology templates: {{inh|sa|iir-pro|*wā́kš||speech, voice}} Proto-Indo-Iranian *wā́kš (“speech, voice”), {{inh|sa|ine-pro|*wṓkʷs||speech, voice}} Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs (“speech, voice”), {{cog|ae|𐬬𐬁𐬑𐬱}} Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬑𐬱 (vāxš), {{cog|grc|ὄψ}} Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), {{cog|la|vōx}} Latin vōx, {{cog|fa|آواز|tr=âvâz}} Persian آواز (âvâz), {{cog|en|voice}} English voice Head templates: {{sa-proper noun|g=f}} वाच् • (vāc) stem, f Inflection templates: {{sa-decl-noun-f|vā́c}} Forms: vāc [romanization], no-table-tags [table-tags], वाक् [nominative, singular], वाचौ [dual, nominative], वाचा1 [dual, nominative], वाचः [nominative, plural], वाचम् [accusative, singular], वाचौ [accusative, dual], वाचा1 [accusative, dual], वाचः [accusative, plural], वाचा [instrumental, singular], वाग्भ्याम् [dual, instrumental], वाग्भिः [instrumental, plural], वाचे [dative, singular], वाग्भ्याम् [dative, dual], वाग्भ्यः [dative, plural], वाचः [ablative, singular], वाग्भ्याम् [ablative, dual], वाग्भ्यः [ablative, plural], वाचः [genitive, singular], वाचोः [dual, genitive], वाचाम् [genitive, plural], वाचि [locative, singular], वाचोः [dual, locative], वाक्षु [locative, plural], वाक् [singular, vocative], वाचौ [dual, vocative], वाचा1 [dual, vocative], वाचः [plural, vocative]
  1. Speech personified as the goddess of speech Vāc
    Sense id: en-वाच्-sa-name-s5bSNL0p Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Gods Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 38 22 40 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 35 35 31 Disambiguation of Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 34 42 24 Disambiguation of Gods: 39 20 41

Noun

IPA: /ʋɑ́ːt͡ɕ/ [Vedic], /ʋɑːt͡ɕ/ [Classical-Sanskrit] Forms: vā́c [romanization]
Etymology: From Proto-Indo-Iranian *wā́kš (“speech, voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs (“speech, voice”), from *wekʷ- (“to speak”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬑𐬱 (vāxš), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), Latin vōx, Persian آواز (âvâz), English voice (via Latin and Old French). Etymology templates: {{inh|sa|iir-pro|*wā́kš||speech, voice}} Proto-Indo-Iranian *wā́kš (“speech, voice”), {{inh|sa|ine-pro|*wṓkʷs||speech, voice}} Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs (“speech, voice”), {{cog|ae|𐬬𐬁𐬑𐬱}} Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬑𐬱 (vāxš), {{cog|grc|ὄψ}} Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), {{cog|la|vōx}} Latin vōx, {{cog|fa|آواز|tr=âvâz}} Persian آواز (âvâz), {{cog|en|voice}} English voice Head templates: {{sa-noun|g=f|tr=vā́c}} वाच् • (vā́c) stem, f
  1. speech, voice, talk, language (also of animals), sound (also of inanimate objects as of the stones used for pressing, of a drum etc.)
    Sense id: en-वाच्-sa-noun-P0jF3JX4 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Sanskrit entries with incorrect language header, Sanskrit links with redundant alt parameters, Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Gods Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 38 22 40 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 35 35 31 Disambiguation of Sanskrit entries with incorrect language header: 24 58 18 Disambiguation of Sanskrit links with redundant alt parameters: 33 42 25 Disambiguation of Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 34 42 24 Disambiguation of Gods: 39 20 41
  2. a word, saying, phrase, sentence, statement, asseveration
    Sense id: en-वाच्-sa-noun-1SM120dh Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Gods Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 38 22 40 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 35 35 31 Disambiguation of Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 34 42 24 Disambiguation of Gods: 39 20 41

Inflected forms

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          "roman": "Agni light sup the face of the dawns; the devout voices of the pious have risen up; therefore, Aśvins, lords of the chariot, descending, come hither today to the splendid sacrifice, perfect in all its parts.",
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      "form": "वाग्भ्याम्",
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      "form": "वाग्भिः",
      "roman": "vāgbhíḥ",
      "source": "declension",
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      "form": "वाचे",
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    "Sanskrit terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Sanskrit terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian",
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        "4": "",
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      },
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    },
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        "5": "speech, voice"
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        "2": "𐬬𐬁𐬑𐬱"
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    },
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      "args": {
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "vōx"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin vōx",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "آواز",
        "tr": "âvâz"
      },
      "expansion": "Persian آواز (âvâz)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "g": "f",
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      },
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      "name": "sa-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "sa",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Sanskrit terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 5.76.1",
          "roman": "Agni light sup the face of the dawns; the devout voices of the pious have risen up; therefore, Aśvins, lords of the chariot, descending, come hither today to the splendid sacrifice, perfect in all its parts.",
          "text": "आ भा॑त्य॒ग्निरु॒षसा॒मनी॑क॒मुद्विप्रा॑णां देव॒या वाचो॑ अस्थुः।\nअ॒र्वाञ्चा॑ नू॒नं र॑थ्ये॒ह या॑तं पीपि॒वांस॑मश्विना घ॒र्ममच्छ॑॥\nā́ bhātyagníruṣásāmánīkamúdvíprāṇāṃ devayā́ vā́co asthuḥ.\narvā́ñcā nūnáṃ rathyehá yātaṃ pīpivā́ṃsamaśvinā gharmámáccha."
        },
        {
          "english": "to raise the voice, utter a sound, cry, call",
          "text": "वाचम् (vācam)-√ṛ, √īr or √iṣ"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "speech, voice, talk, language (also of animals), sound (also of inanimate objects as of the stones used for pressing, of a drum etc.)"
      ],
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          "speech",
          "speech"
        ],
        [
          "voice",
          "voice"
        ],
        [
          "talk",
          "talk"
        ],
        [
          "language",
          "language"
        ],
        [
          "sound",
          "sound"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to speak words",
          "text": "वाचं (vācaṃ)-√vad"
        },
        {
          "english": "to utter words",
          "text": "वाचं व्या (vācaṃ vyā)-√hṛ"
        },
        {
          "english": "to address words to",
          "text": "वाचं (vācaṃ)-√dā +dative"
        },
        {
          "english": "to promise verbally in marriage, plight troth",
          "text": "वाचा सत्यं (vācā satyaṃ)-√kṛ"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a word, saying, phrase, sentence, statement, asseveration"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ],
        [
          "saying",
          "saying"
        ],
        [
          "phrase",
          "phrase"
        ],
        [
          "sentence",
          "sentence"
        ],
        [
          "statement",
          "statement"
        ],
        [
          "asseveration",
          "asseveration"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʋɑ́ːt͡ɕ/",
      "tags": [
        "Vedic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʋɑːt͡ɕ/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Sanskrit"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "वाच्"
}

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    "Sanskrit lemmas",
    "Sanskrit links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Sanskrit nouns",
    "Sanskrit nouns in Devanagari script",
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    "Sanskrit terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Sanskrit terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian",
    "Sanskrit terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
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        "4": "",
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      "args": {
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ὄψ"
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      "args": {
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
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        "tr": "âvâz"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
    }
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      "form": "vāc",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sa-decl-noun-f",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाक्",
      "roman": "vā́k",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचौ",
      "roman": "vā́cau",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचा1",
      "roman": "vā́cā1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचः",
      "roman": "vā́caḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचम्",
      "roman": "vā́cam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचौ",
      "roman": "vā́cau",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचा1",
      "roman": "vā́cā1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचः",
      "roman": "vā́caḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचा",
      "roman": "vācā́",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाग्भ्याम्",
      "roman": "vāgbhyā́m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाग्भिः",
      "roman": "vāgbhíḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचे",
      "roman": "vācé",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाग्भ्याम्",
      "roman": "vāgbhyā́m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाग्भ्यः",
      "roman": "vāgbhyáḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचः",
      "roman": "vācáḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाग्भ्याम्",
      "roman": "vāgbhyā́m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाग्भ्यः",
      "roman": "vāgbhyáḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचः",
      "roman": "vācáḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचोः",
      "roman": "vācóḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचाम्",
      "roman": "vācā́m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचि",
      "roman": "vācí",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचोः",
      "roman": "vācóḥ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाक्षु",
      "roman": "vākṣú",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाक्",
      "roman": "vā́k",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचौ",
      "roman": "vā́cau",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचा1",
      "roman": "vā́cā1",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "वाचः",
      "roman": "vā́caḥ",
      "source": "declension",
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        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
        "g": "f"
      },
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      "name": "sa-proper noun"
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "vā́c"
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Sanskrit",
  "lang_code": "sa",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Speech personified as the goddess of speech Vāc"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Vāc",
          "Vāc"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʋɑ́ːt͡ɕ/",
      "tags": [
        "Vedic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʋɑːt͡ɕ/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Sanskrit"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "वाच्"
}

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