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वेत्ति
वेत्ति
Sanskrit
Verb
वेत्ति • (vetti)
- (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 यथा ― viddhi yathā ― know that
- विद्यात् ― vidyāt ― one should know / it should be understood
- य एवम् वेद ― ya evam veda ― who knows thus / who has this knowledge (Br.)
- (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 विदुः ― taṃ sthaviraṃ viduḥ ― they consider or call him aged
- राजर्षिर् इति मां विदुः ― rājarṣir iti māṃ viduḥ ― they consider me a rājarṣi
- (with genitive or accusative) to mind, notice, observe, remember (RV., ŚBr., MBh.)
- (with accusative or genitive) to experience, feel (RV. etc.)
- (with accusative) to wish to know, inquire about (RV., AV., Br.)
- (in causative) to make known, announce, report, tell (ŚBr. etc.)
- → causative वेदयते (vedáyate), rarely वेदयति (vedáyati), aorist अवीविदत् (avīvidat), passive वेद्यते (vedyate)
- to teach, explain (ŚāṅkhŚr.)
- (with two accusatives) to recognize or regard as, take for (MBh., Kāv.)
- to feel, experience (ŚBr., Mn.)
- (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