Sanskrit Dictionary

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mā

cl.2 P. (

) māti- ; cl.3 A1. (

) m/imīte- ; cl.4. A1. (

) māyate- (Ved. and Epic also mimāti- Potential mimīyāt- imperative, mimīhi-; Potential mimet-

; perfect tense mam/au-, mame-, mamir/e-

; Aorist /aināsi- subjunctive masātai-

; amāsīt- grammar; preceding māsīṣṭa-, meyāt-

; future mātā-; māsyati-, māsyate-

; infinitive mood m/e- -m/ai-

; mātum-

; ind.p. mitv/ā-, -m/āya-

etc.) , to measure, mete out, mark off

etc. ; to measure across = traverse

; to measure (by any standard) , compare with (instrumental case)

; (māti-) to correspond in measure (either with genitive case,"to be large or long enough for"

;or with locative case,"to find room or be contained in"

;or with na-and instrumental case,"to be beside one's self with"

) ; to measure out, apportion, grant

; to help any one (accusative) to anything (dative case)

; to prepare, arrange, fashion, form, build, make

; to show, display, exhibit (amimīta-,"he displayed or developed himself",

)

; (in philosophy) to infer, conclude ; to pray (yācñā-karmaṇi-)

: Passive voice mīy/ate- (Aorist amāyi-) ; to be measured etc.

Causal , māpayati-, te- (Aorist amīmapat-

Va1rtt. 2

), to cause to be measured or built, measure, build, erect

etc.: Desiderative mitsati-, te-

(confer, compare nir-mā-): Intensive memīyate-

[ confer, compare Zend ma1; Greek , ; Latin me1tior,mensus,mensura; Slavonic or Slavonian me8ra; Lithuanian me3ra4.]