niśā

nis ind. out, forth, away &c. (rarely used as an independent word [ e.g. AV. vi, 18, 3 ; vii, 115, 3 ; xvi, 2, 1 ], but mostly as a prefix to verbs and their derivatives [ cf. niḥkṣi &c. below], or to nouns not immediately connected with verbs, in which case it has the sense, ‘out of’, ‘away from’ [ cf. nirvana, niṣkauśāmbi &c.] or that of a privative or negative adverb = 3. a, ‘without’, ‘destitute of’, ‘free from’, ‘un-’ [ cf. nirartha, nirmala &c.], or that of a strengthening particle ‘thoroughly’, ‘entirely’, ‘very’ [ cf. niḥśūnya, niṣkevala, nirmuṇḍa]; it is liable to be changed to niḥ, nir, niś, niṣ, and nī; cf. above and below).

2. niś cl. 1. P. neśati, to meditate upon, be absorbed in meditation, Dhātup. xvii, 73.

3. niś f. (occurring only in some weak cases as niśi, śas, śau, śos [and niḍbhyas, Pāṇ. vi, 1, 63 ], for or with niśā, and prob. connected with nak, nakta; cf. also dyu, mahā) night, Mn. ; MBh. ; Var. ; Śak. &c.

niśa n. (or am ind. ) ifc. for niśā ( cf. a, ahar, divā, niśā, śva, and Pāṇ. ii, 4, 25 ).

niśā f. night, GṛŚrS. ; Mn. ; MBh. &c.

turmeric, Curcuma (of 2 species, prob. C˚ and C˚ ), Suśr.