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वेत्ति

वेत्ति

Sanskrit

Verb

वेत्ति (vetti)

  1. (with accusative, in older language also with genitive) to know, understand, perceive, learn, become or be acquainted with, be conscious of, have a correct notion of (RV. etc.)
    (with infinitive) — to know how to
    विद्धि यथाviddhi yathā ― know that
    विद्यात्vidyāt ― one should know / it should be understood
    य एवम् वेदya evam veda ― who knows thus / who has this knowledge (Br.)
  2. (usually in third-person plural, or with accusative and nominative with इति (iti)) to know, regard, consider as, take for, declare to be, call (Up., Mn., MBh. etc.)
    तं स्थविरं विदुःtaṃ sthaviraṃ viduḥ ― they consider or call him aged
    राजर्षिर् इति मां विदुःrājarṣir iti māṃ viduḥ ― they consider me a rājarṣi
  3. (with genitive or accusative) to mind, notice, observe, remember (RV., ŚBr., MBh.)
  4. (with accusative or genitive) to experience, feel (RV. etc.)
  5. (with accusative) to wish to know, inquire about (RV., AV., Br.)
  6. (in causative) to make known, announce, report, tell (ŚBr. etc.)
    → causative वेदयते (vedáyate), rarely वेदयति (vedáyati), aorist अवीविदत् (avīvidat), passive वेद्यते (vedyate)
  7. to teach, explain (ŚāṅkhŚr.)
  8. (with two accusatives) to recognize or regard as, take for (MBh., Kāv.)
  9. to feel, experience (ŚBr., Mn.)
  10. (in desiderative, with accusative) to wish to know or learn, inquire about (ŚBr. etc.)
    → desiderative of causative विवेदयिषु (vivedayiṣu), desiderative विविदिषति (vividiṣati) or विवित्सति (vivitsati), intensive वेविद्यते (vevidyate), वेवेत्ति (vevetti)

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0963