1. غهَ
2. gha ind. (used to lay stress on a word) at least, surely, verily, indeed, especially (= Gk. γε ), RV. ; AV. v, 13, 10 & 11 ; vi, 1, 3. In the Saṃhitā the final vowel is generally lengthened (ghā, cf. Pāṇ. vi, 3, 133 )
The corpus record — Sanskrit
ghañ
2. gha ind. (used to lay stress on a word) at least, surely, verily, indeed, especially (= Gk. γε ), RV. ; AV. v, 13, 10 & 11 ; vi, 1, 3. In the Saṃhitā the final vowel is generally lengthened (ghā, cf. Pāṇ. vi, 3, 133 )
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Where it lives
- Chandogya Upanisad 1 · 0.21/10k
What it meant — Monier-Williams
2. غهَ
sometimes it occurs in the clause which depends on a conditional or relative sentence ( e.g. āghāgamadyadiśravat, ‘he will surely come when he hears’, RV. i, 30, 8 ), i, 161, 8 ; viii, 46, 4.
3. غهَ
3. gha mfn. (√ han) ifc. ‘striking, killing’, cf. jīva, tāḍa, pāṇi, rāja, &c. ( cf. also parigha)
4. ghaṇ
ghaṇ cl. 8. P. Ā. v.l. for √ ghṛṇ.
In the wild
Where it came from
- Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. gha (vol. 1, scan pp. 566-567; entry #5922).
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