Sanskrit manuscript in Devanāgarī

grāsa ग्रास – food

adjective · substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Dictionary sources

AYI dictionary substantive masculine
Cappeller 1891 adjective

Original text · English · adjective

grāsa ·a. swallowing (--°); m. mouthful, lump, bit, piece, food; eating, devouring, eclipse (cf. gráha).

Monier-Williams 1872 substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Original text · English · substantive masculine

Grāsa, as, m. a mouthful or a quantity of anything equivalent to a mouthful, a lump of rice &c. of the size of a peacock's egg; food, nourishment; the erosion, the morsel bitten; the quantity eclipsed; the act of swallowing; the swallowing of the sun and moon (by Rāhu), an eclipse; slurring, uttering with the omission of a letter or syllable, a fault in the pronunciation of the gutturals; (in geom.) a piece cut out by the intersection of two circles.

Original text · English · Word type unspecified

grāsa grāsa. See under rt. gras, p. 302.

Petersburger 1855 substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · substantive masculine

grāsa (von gras) m. 1〉 Mundvoll, Bissen AK. 2,9,54. H. 425. yāvato grasate grāsān M. 3,133. M. 6,28. M. 11,213. YĀJÑ. 3,55. tadetasyāpi kiyantamapi grāsaṃ dehi PAÑCAT. 221,21. PAÑCAT. II, 69. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 92,7. P. 1,3,52, Sch. grāmapramāṇaṃ tu kukkuṭāṇḍapramāṇaṃ śikhyaṇḍapramāṇaṃ vā Verz. d. B. H. No. 1165. — 2〉 Futter, Nahrung: goḥ GOBH. 4,1,15. ŚĀṄKH. GṚHY. 3,14. sino grāsaḥ svayameva P. 8,2,44, Vārtt. 4. tṛṇaṃ ca gobhyo grāsārtham M. 8,339. grāsaṃ dadatkhāṇḍave pāvakāya MBH. 8,4564. grāsāmbu Speise und Trank ŚVETĀŚV. UP. 5,11. grāsācchādanam Nahrung und Kleidung M. 9,202. MBH. 14,1291. āsyādgrāsamivākṣiptam MBH. 7,1591. PAÑCAT. IV, 79. H. 813. — 3〉 the erosion, the morcel bitten; the quantity eclipsed COLEBR. Alg. 311. — 4〉 das Verschlingen BHARTṚ. 2,22. das Verschlingen der Sonne und des Mondes (durch Rāhu), Verfinsterung VARĀH. BṚH. S. 5,18. das Verschlucken, ein Fehler der Aussprache bei Gutturalen ṚV. PRĀT. 14,4. ṚV. PRĀT. 14,7. — Vgl. gras.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

grāsa 2〉 īśvara˚ Ind. St. 9,126. — 4〉 grāsahāsātirekaḥ übermässiges Essen und Lachen Spr. 4462. — 5〉 Verschlinger: sarva˚ Ind. St. 9,147.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

grāsa 3〉 amount of obscuration SŪRYAS. 4,20. SŪRYAS. 4,23. SŪRYAS. 5,13. SŪRYAS. 6,17. — 4〉 Eklipse SŪRYAS. 4,11. SŪRYAS. 6,18. die erste Berührung mit dem verfinsterten Himmelskörper SŪRYAS. 4,16. SŪRYAS. 5,14. SŪRYAS. 6,6. SŪRYAS. 6,7. SŪRYAS. 6,20.

Böhtlingk 1879 adjective · substantive masculine

Original text · German · adjective · substantive masculine

grāsa — 1〉 Adj. am Ende eines Comp. verschlingend. — 2〉 m. — a〉 Mundvoll, Bissen. — b〉 Futter, Nahrung. [Page2-194-a] Pl. zu Spr. 1324. — c〉 der Umfang einer Eklipse. — d〉 das Verschlingen; auch so v. a. das Essen Spr. 3710. — e〉 das Verschlingen der Sonne oder des Mondes von Seiten Rāhuʼs, Finsterniss. — f〉 die erste Berührung mit dem verfinsterten Himmelskörper. — g〉 eine best. fehlerhafte Aussprache der Gutturale.

Apte 1890 substantive masculine

Original text · English · substantive masculine

grāsaḥ [gras karmaṇi ghañ] 1 A mouthful, a quantity of anything equal to a mouthful; Ms. 3. 133; Ms. 6. 28; Y. 3. 55. 2 Food, nourishment. 3 The part of the sun or moon eclipsed. 4 The morsel bitten. 5 The act of swallowing. 6 Slurring, indistinct pronunciation; fault in the pronunciation of the gutturals. 7 (In geom.) A piece cut out by the intersection of two circles. 8 An eclipse. Comp. — ācchādanaṃ food and clothing; i. e. bare subsistence. — śalyaṃ any extraneous substance lodged in the throat.

Cappeller 1887 Word type unspecified

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

grāsa verschlingend (—˚); m. Mundvoll, Bissen, Nahrung; das Verschlingen, die Verfinsterung (eines Gestirns).

Burnouf 1866 substantive masculine

Original text · French · substantive masculine

grāsa grāsa m. (gras) action de manger; au fig. l'action de manger le son [en retirant la base de la langue vers le fond de la bouche] tg. Bouchée; petite quantité de nourriture [équivalente à une bouchée].

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SVU 1 occurrence
SVU 5.7–5.11: The Wandering Self 1 occurrence

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