niś निश् – night
verbal root · substantive feminine · Word type unspecified · verb
Dictionary sources
AYI dictionary substantive feminine
night
Cappeller 1891 substantive feminine
Original text · English · substantive feminine
niś ·f. night.
Monier-Williams 1872 substantive feminine · Word type unspecified · verb
Original text · English · substantive feminine
niś 3 . niś, f. (perhaps connected with nak fr. rt. 2. naś, or merely a curtailed form of niśā below, which may be connected with ni-śītha and so derived fr. rt. śī with ni; the form niś is defective in nom. voc. sing. du. and pl., acc. sing. du., but may be optionally substituted for niśā in acc. pl. and remaining cases, e. g. niśas or niśās, niśā or niśayā, niḍbhyām [according to some also nijbhyām] or niśābhyām, &c.), night; niśi niśi, every night; mahā-niśi, at midnight.
Original text · English · Word type unspecified
niś 1 . niś, euphonically substituted for nis before c, ch, &c.
Original text · English · verb
niś 2 . niś, cl. 1. P. -neśati, &c., to meditate upon, meditate profoundly, to be absorbed in meditation.
Petersburger 1855 Word type unspecified
Original text · German · Word type unspecified
1. √niś , néśati sich vertiefen (samādhau) DHĀTUP. 17,73.
Original text · German · Word type unspecified
2. niś f. = niśā Nacht: in den starken Casus nicht im Gebrauch nach P. 6,1,63. VOP. 3,39. VOP. 3,76. niśas (acc. pl.), niśā, niḍbhyām P., Schol. auch nijbhyām (!) nicsu(!) SIDDH. K. niśi KAUŚ. 39. KAUŚ. 75. KAUŚ. 141. M. 9,60. M. 11,92. M. 11,118. INDR. 5,18. HIḌ. 1,3. MBH. 5,7248. ŚĀK. 61. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 4,30. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 34,5. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 87,21. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 92,5. niśi niśi jede Nacht VARĀH. BṚH. S. 5,9. VID. 37. VID. 278. mahāniśi in tiefer Nacht M. 4,129. dyuniśoḥ 25. tamāniśau TRIK. 1,1,105. niṭ H. ś. 17. niśaḥ (abl. sg.) H. 105.
Böhtlingk 1879 verbal root · substantive feminine
Original text · German · verbal root
1. *√niś , neśati (samādhau).
Original text · German · substantive feminine
2. niś f. Nacht. Zu belegen nur niśi, niśas (Abl.), ˚niśau und ˚niśos (Chr. 219,22). Vgl. dyuniś.
Apte 1890 substantive feminine
Original text · English · substantive feminine
niś f. (This word is optionally substituted for niśā in all cases after acc. dual; it has no forms for the first five inflections) 1 Night. 2 Turmeric.
Cappeller 1887 substantive feminine
Original text · German · substantive feminine
niś f. Nacht.
Burnouf 1866 verbal root · substantive feminine
Original text · French · verbal root
*niś niś. neśāmi 1; p. nineśa; etc. Penser, méditer.
Original text · French · substantive feminine
niś niś f. la nuit. Gr. νύξ; lat. nox; cf. naktam.
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