उभ्नाति
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *ubʰnáHti, Proto-Indo-Iranian *ubʰnáHti, from Proto-Indo-European *ubʰ-néH-ti, from *webʰ-.
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /ubʱ.n̪ɑ́ː.t̪i/
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ubʱˈn̪ɑː.t̪i/
Verb
उभ्नाति • (ubhnā́ti) (root उभ्, class 9, type P)
- to hurt, kill
- c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.63.4
- त्वं ह त्यदिन्द्र चोदीः सखा वृत्रं यद्वज्रिन्वृषकर्मन्न् उभ्नाः ।
यद्ध शूर वृषमणः पराचैर्वि दस्यूँर्योनावकृतो वृथाषाट् ॥- tvaṃ ha tyadindra codīḥ sakhā vṛtraṃ yadvajrinvṛṣakarmann ubhnāḥ .
yaddha śūra vṛṣamaṇaḥ parācairvi dasyūm̐ryonāvakṛto vṛthāṣāṭ . - That, as a friend, thou furtheredst, O Indra, when, Thunderer, strong in act, thou crushedst Vrtra;
When, Hero, thou, great-souled, with easy conquest didst rend the Dasyus in their distant dwelling.
- tvaṃ ha tyadindra codīḥ sakhā vṛtraṃ yadvajrinvṛṣakarmann ubhnāḥ .
- to cover; fill
References
- Monier Williams (1899), “उभ्नाति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 216.