stṛ स्तृ – spread; extend; strew

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stṛ stṛṇā́ti stṛṇīté stṛṇóti stṛṇute1 ·v (starati), pp. stīrṇá & stṛta (q.v.) strew (esp. the sacrificial straw), spread out; strew over, cover; throw down, overthrow. D. tústūrṣáte wish to throw down. -- abhi, ava & samava strew, cover. ā strew, spread, expand; cover, smear. samā strew over. upa lay or pour over, (±ājyam) form a coating with the sacrificial butter, cover or wrap with (instr.), strew, expand; (±ājyam) pour the sacrificial butter over, ni throw down. pari strew around, cover, spread, expand. pra strew, scatter, spread out. vi spread or stretch out, expand, diffuse; also = C. vistārayati amplify on (acc.). sam spread or expand (together), strew, cover. -- Cf. āstīrṇa & ā́stṛta, upastīrṇa, prástīrṇa, vistīrṇa & vistṛta, saṃstīrṇa & saṃstṛta.

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stṛ́2 ·(instr. pl. stṛ́bhis) star.

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2. stṛ, spreading, covering, clothing, (Sāy. = āc- chādaka, Ṛg-veda I. 87, 1); a star, (Ṛg-veda II. 2, 5. stṛbhiḥ = nakṣatraiḥ, ‘a star;’ cf. tāra, ‘light-strewer, light-scatterer;’ in this sense thought by some to be for astṛ, fr. rt. 2. as + tṛ; cf. Gr. ἀστήρ, τεῖρος, Æol. τέῤῤος; Lat. stella; Goth. stairno; Angl. Sax. steorra.)

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stṛ 3 . stṛ (= rt. spṛ, q. v.), cl. 5. P. stṛ- ṇoti, &c., to please, gratify, &c.

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stṛ 1 . stṛ, cl. 5. or stṝ, cl. 9. P. A. stṛ- ṇoti, stṛṇute, stṛṇāti, stṛṇīte, tastāra (1st du. tastariva), tastare, stariṣyati or sta- rīṣyati, -te (if in cl. 9), astārṣīt (according to some also astārīt), astṛta, astariṣṭa or asta- rīṣṭa, astīrṣṭa (if in cl. 9, Pāṇ. VII. 2, 42); Prec. staryāt, stīryāt, stṛṣīṣṭa, stariṣīṣṭa or starīṣīṣṭa, stīrṣīṣṭa (if in cl. 9, Pāṇ. VII. 2, 42), startum or staritum or starītum (Ved. Inf. startavai), to spread, spread out, expand, diffuse; to spread about, strew, scatter; to spread on or over; to cover, clothe; to kill, (in Naigh. II. 19. stṛṇāti is enumerated among the vadha-karmā- ṇaḥ): Pass. cl. 5. staryate, cl. 9. stīryate, Aor. astāri, to be spread, &c.: Caus. stārayati, -yitum, Aor. atastarat, to spread; to cover: Desid. tistīr- ṣati, -te, or tistariṣati, -te, or tistarīṣati, -te: Intens. tāstaryate, testīryate, tāstarti; [cf. Zend śtar, śtair-is: Gr. στόρ-νυ-μι, στορέννυ-μι, στρώννυ-μι, στρῶ-μα, στρω-μνή, στρα-τό-ς: Lat. ster-n-o, stra-tu-s, stra-men, stra-mentu-m, toru-s: Goth. strau-ja: Old Germ. strao, betti- strewi, ‘lectisternium:’ Slav. stre-ti, ‘to extend;’ po-stla-ti, ‘to strew;’ po-stel-ja, ‘a bed:’ Lith. stra-je, ‘a bed of straw.’]

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stṛ — strew

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stṛ I. 5 U. (stṛṇoti, stṛṇute, stṛta; pass. staryate) 1 To spread, strew, cover, spread on or over; (mahīṃ) tastāra saraghāvyāptaiḥ sa kṣaudrapaṭalairiva R. 4. 63, R. 7. 58. 2 To spread, expand, diffuse. 3 To scatter, spread about. 4 To clothe, cover, overspread, envelop. 5 To kill. — Caus. (stārayati-te) To overspread, cover, strew; raktenāciklidadbhūmiṃ sainyaiścātastaraddhataiḥ Bk. 15. 48. — Desid. ( tistīrṣati-te). II. 5 P. (stṛṇīte) To please, gratify.

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stṛ m. A star.

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*stṛ stṛ stṛṇomi, stṛṇve 5, stṛṇāmi, stṛṇe 9; p. tastāra, tastare; f1. startāsmi; f2. stariṣyāmi; a1. astāriṣam et astārṣam; astariṣi, astarīṣi et astīrsi [3p. astṛta]; o. stīryāsam, stariṣīya, stīrṣīya et stṛṣīya; pp. stṛta et stīrṇa. Etendre, étaler, varhis le gazon sacré; couvrir, vediṃ dūrvayā l'enceinte sacrée de dūrvā. Etendre à terre, tuer. Lat. sterno; gr. στορέννυμι.

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stṛ stṛ f. (?) Vd. étoile.