The corpus record — Sanskrit
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
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1. نِس
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
2. niś
2. niś cl. 1. P. neśati, to meditate upon, be absorbed in meditation, Dhātup. xvii, 73.
3. niś
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.
4. niśa
niśa n. (or am ind. ) ifc. for niśā ( cf. a, ahar, divā, niśā, śva, and Pāṇ. ii, 4, 25 ).
5. niśā
niśā f. night, GṛŚrS. ; Mn. ; MBh. &c.
6. niśā
turmeric, Curcuma (of 2 species, prob. C˚ and C˚ ), Suśr.
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