पद

From Sanskrit पद (padá). Related to पाँव (pā̃v), पाद (pād), पैर (pair), पाजी (pājī, “footsoldier”), and more distantly फ़ुट (fuṭ).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /pəd̪/, [pɐd̪]

पद • (pad) m (Urdu spelling پد)

1. foot
2. footstep
3. footprint
4. mark
5. sign
6. home, abode
7. degree, rank
8. office
9. verse, line
10. head, title

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• IPA^(key): [pəd]

पद • (pad) n (Latin script pod, Kannada script ಪದ್)

1. song

   Synonym: गीत (gīt), Synonym: गाणें (gāṇễ)

• IPA^(key): [pʌd̪]
• Phonetic Devanagari: पद्

पद • (pad)

1. rank
2. post, position

पद n

1. Devanagari script form of pada (“foot”)
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[2] (overall work in Pali), page 250; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     अथ सब्बासं विभत्तीनं यानि यानि पुब्बानि छ पदानि तानि तानि परस्सपदसञ्ञानि होन्ति।

     Atha sabbāsaṃ vibhattīnaṃ yāni yāni pubbāni cha padāni, tāni tāni parassapadasaññāni honti.

     Then whatever are the first six endings of all the endings, they are called the active endings.

• पाद (pāda)

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *padám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *padám, from Proto-Indo-European *ped-óm (“trace, bottom”), from *ped-.^[1] Cognate with Ancient Greek πέδον (pédon, “floor, ground”), Hittite 𒁉𒂊𒁕𒀭 (pēdan, “floor, ground; place”), Old Norse fet (“step”), Old Armenian հետ (het, “footprint, track”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɐ.dɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /pɐ.d̪ɐ/

प॒द • (padá) stem, n (rarely m)

1. step, pace, stride
2. footstep, trace, vestige, mark; the foot itself
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.133.2:

     अ॒भि॒व्लग्या॑ चिदद्रिवः शी॒र्षा या॑तु॒मती॑नाम्।
     छि॒न्धि व॑टू॒रिणा॑ प॒दा म॒हाव॑टूरिणा प॒दा॥

     abhivlágyā cidadrivaḥ śīrṣā́ yātumátīnām.
     chindhí vaṭūríṇā padā́ mahā́vaṭūriṇā padā́.

     Devourer of foes having trampled on the heads of the malignant hosts, crush them with your wide-spreading foot; your vast wide-spreading foot.

3. sign, token, characteristic
4. footing, standpoint
5. position, rank, station, site, abode, home, place
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.22.20:

     तद्विष्णोः॑ पर॒मं प॒दं सदा॑ पश्यन्ति सू॒रयः॑।
     दि॒वी॑व॒ चक्षु॒रात॑तम्॥

     tádvíṣṇoḥ paramáṃ padáṃ sádā paśyanti sūráyaḥ.
     divī̀va cákṣurā́tatam.

     The wise ever contemplate that supreme station of Viṣṇu, as the eye ranges over the sky.

6. business affair, matter, object or cause of (genitive or compound)
7. pretext
8. part, portion, division
9. (chess) square on a chessboard
10. plot of ground
11. the foot as a measure of length (= 12 or 15 fingers' breadth, or 1/2 or 1/3 or 3/7 of a प्रक्रम (prakrama))
12. ray of light
13. (poetry) a verse, a quarter or line of a stanza
14. a word or an inflected word or the stem of a noun in the middle cases and before some तद्धित (taddhita)s
15. = पदपाठ (pada-pāṭha)
16. common name of the parasmaipada and ātmanepada
17. any one in a set of numbers the sum of which is required
18. a period in an arithmetical progression
19. square root
20. quadrant
21. protection

• Pali: pada
• → Old Javanese: pada
• → Tamil: பதம் (patam)
• → Telugu: పదము (padamu)
• → Bengali: পদ (pod)

• Monier Williams (1899), “पद”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0583/1.
• Alexander Lubotsky, A Rgvedic Word Concordance, American Oriental Society, 1997, lemma padá