वह्
Sanskrit
Alternative forms
- उह् (uh) — samprasāraṇa form
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- ৱহ্ (Assamese script)
- ᬯᬳ᭄ (Balinese script)
- বহ্ (Bengali script)
- 𑰪𑰮𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀯𑀳𑁆 (Brahmi script)
- ဝဟ် (Burmese script)
- વહ્ (Gujarati script)
- ਵਹ੍ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌵𑌹𑍍 (Grantha script)
- ꦮꦲ꧀ (Javanese script)
- 𑂫𑂯𑂹 (Kaithi script)
- ವಹ್ (Kannada script)
- វហ៑ (Khmer script)
- ວຫ຺ (Lao script)
- വഹ് (Malayalam script)
- ᠸᠠᡥ (Manchu script)
- 𑘪𑘮𑘿 (Modi script)
- ᠸᠠᠾ (Mongolian script)
- 𑧊𑧎𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐰𑐴𑑂 (Newa script)
- ଵହ୍ (Odia script)
- ꢮꢲ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆮𑆲𑇀 (Sharada script)
- 𑖪𑖮𑖿 (Siddham script)
- වහ් (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩾𑪂 𑪙 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚦𑚩𑚶 (Takri script)
- வஹ் (Tamil script)
- వహ్ (Telugu script)
- วหฺ (Thai script)
- ཝ་ཧ྄ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒫𑒯𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨭𑨱𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *waźʰ-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *waȷ́ʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /ʋɐɦ/
- (Classical Sanskrit) IPA(key): /ʋɐɦ/
Root
वह् • (vah)
- to carry
Derived terms
Primary verbal forms
- वह॑ति (váhati, present)
- व॒क्ष्यति॑ (vakṣyáti, future)
- वो॒ढा (voḍhā́, periphrastic future)
- अवा॑क्षीत् (ávākṣīt, aorist)
- उह्यात् (uhyāt, benedictive)
- उ॒वाह॑ (uvā́ha, perfect)
Secondary forms
- उ॒ह्यते॑ (uhyáte, passive)
- अवा॑हि (ávāhi, passive aorist)
- वा॒हय॑ति (vāháyati, causative)
- अवी॑वहत् (ávīvahat, causative aorist)
- वाह्यते (vāhyate, passive of causative)
- विवक्षति (vivakṣati, desiderative)
- वावहीति (vāvahīti, intensive)
- व॒नी॒वा॒ह्यते॑ (vanīvāhyáte, intensive)
Non-finite forms
- ऊ॒ढ (ūḍhá, past participle)
- वोढु॑म् (vóḍhum, infinitive)
- वोढ॑वे (vóḍhave, infinitive)
- वोढ॒वै (vóḍhavái, infinitive)
- वह॑ध्यै (váhadhyai, infinitive)
- ऊ॒ढ्वा (ūḍhvā́, gerund)
- उह्य॑ (úhya, gerund)
- वाह्य (vāhya, gerundive)
- वोढव्य (voḍhavya, gerundive)
Derived nominal forms
- वाह् (vāh)
- वह॑ (váha)
- व॒हिन् (vahín)
- वह्य (vahya)
- ओघ (ogha)
- औ॒घ (aughá)
- वा॒ह (vāhá)
- वाहक (vāhaka)
- वाहिन् (vāhin)
- वहन (vahana)
- वाहन (vāhana)
- वाहनीय (vāhanīya)
- वहत् (vahat)
- वाहस् (vāhas)
- ऊढि (ūḍhi)
- वहतु (vahatu)
- वाहितव्य (vāhitavya)
- वोढृ (voḍhṛ)
- वाहितृ (vāhitṛ)
- वहितृ (vahitṛ)
- वहित्र (vahitra)
- वहिष्ठ (vahiṣṭha)
- वाहिष्ठ (vāhiṣṭha)
- वहीयस् (vahīyas)
- वह्नि (vahni)
- वह्मन् (vahman)
- वक्षस् (vakṣas)
- वक्षी (vakṣī)
- वावहि (vāvahi)
- वीवध (vīvadha)
- वाहयितृ (vāhayitṛ)
Prefixed root forms
- अतिवह् (ativah)
- अनुवह् (anuvah)
- अपवह् (apavah)
- अभिवह् (abhivah)
- आवह् (āvah)
- उद्वह् (udvah)
- उपवह् (upavah)
- निर्वह् (nirvah)
- निवह् (nivah)
- परावह् (parāvah)
- परिवह् (parivah)
- प्रतिवह् (prativah)
- प्रवह् (pravah)
- विवह् (vivah)
- संवह् (saṃvah)
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root वह् (0 c, 14 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root वह् (9 c, 0 e)
Related terms
- ऊह् (ūh, “to push, remove”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899), “वह्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 933, columns 2-3.
- William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 157
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2026), “vah”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “VAH”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 535-7