vacanam

väc- f. Rede, Spruch, Ruf, Stimme, Lied, Getön (RV [NomSg väk, AkkSg väc-am, GenSg väc-as u.a.] +), kl. väc-ä- f. Rede, Wort (s. Mi. usw.; vgl. die Lit. in KEWA III 180, Renou, EVP 15 [1966] 168); vagvin- (’min-) beredt (s. bes.), vacäla-, väcätageschwätzig (Pän [5,2,125] +; AiGr 11 2,268, 288f., KEWA III 182); a-väk-ka- sprachlos ($B). - Mi., ni., pä. väcä-f. Rede, pkt. väyäda-, väyäla- geschwätzig, bg. abäk … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. väc-, p. 567]

vacä- f, einc aromatische Wurzel, wohl Acorus calamus (Ilarsac, s Das, Lebensspanne 295) - Mi,ni,pä vaca-f eine aromasche Wurzel, kS. way f. “Acorus calamus’, u a (Tu 11201) - Wohl drav,, vgl ia vacam(pu) ‘Acorus calamus‘, u a; DED? 471b, Nr 5213 $ ferner KEWA III 126 — [Mayrhofer, s.v. vacä-, p. 486]

vac cl. 2. P. ( Dhātup. xxiv, 55 ) vakti (occurs only in sg. vacmi, vakṣi, vakti, and Impv. vaktu; Ved. also cl. 3. P. vivakti; pf. uvāca, ūce, RV. &c. &c.; uvaktha, AV. ; vavāca, vavakṣe, RV. ; aor. avocat, cata, RV. &c. &c.; in Veda also Subj. vocati, te, vocāti; Pot. vocet, ceta; Impv. vocatu; Prec. ucyāsam, Br. ; fut. vaktā, ib. &c.; vakṣyati, RV. &c. &c.; te, MBh. ; Cond. avakṣyat, Br. ; Up. ; inf. vaktum, Br. &c.; tave, RV. ; tos, Br. ; ind.p. uktvā, Br. &c.; ucya, ib. ), to speak, say, tell, utter, announce, declare, mention, proclaim, recite, describe (with acc. with or without prati dat. or gen. of pers. , and acc. of thing; often with double acc. , e.g. tamidaṃvākyamuvāca, ‘he spoke this speech to him’; with double acc. also ‘to name, call’, Ā. with nom. ‘one's self’; with punar, ‘to speak again, repeat’; or ‘to answer, reply’), RV. &c. &c.; to reproach, revile ( acc. ), Hariv. ; R. : Pass. ucyate ( aor. avāci, or in later language avoci), to be spoken or said or told or uttered &c., RV. &c. &c. (yaducyate, ‘what the saying is’); to resound, RV. ; to be called or accounted, be regarded as, pass for ( nom. , L. also loc. ), Mn. ; MBh. &c.: Caus. vācayati, te ( Pot. vācayīta, ĀśvGṛ. ; aor. avīvacat; Pass. vācyate), to cause to say or speak or recite or pronounce (with double acc. ; often the object is to be supplied), Br. ; GṛS. ; MBh. &c.; to cause anything written or printed to speak i.e. to read out loud, Hariv. ; Kāv. ; Kathās. &c.; ( Dhātup. xxxiv, 35 ) to say, tell, declare, Bhaṭṭ. ; to promise, MBh. : Desid. vivakṣati, te ( Pass. vivakṣyate), to desire to say or speak or recite or proclaim or declare, MBh. ; Kāv. &c.; ( Pass. ) to be meant, Śaṃk. ; Sarvad. : Intens. (only avāvacīt) to call or cry aloud, RV. x, 102, 6.

vāc f. ( fr. √ vac) speech, voice, talk, language (also of animals), sound (also of inanimate objects as of the stones used for pressing, of a drum &c.), RV. &c. &c. (vācamṛ, īr, or iṣ, to raise the voice, utter a sound, cry, call)

Speech personified (in various manners or forms, e.g. as Vāc Āmbhṛṇī in RV. x, 125 ; as the voice of the middle sphere in Naigh. & Nir. ; in the Veda she is also represented as created by Prajā-pati and married to him; in other places she is called the mother of the Veda s and wife of Indra ; in VP. she is the daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Kaśyapa ; but most frequently she is identified with Bhāratī or Sarasvatī , the goddess of speech; vācaḥsāma and vācovratam N. of Sāman s, ĀrṣBr. ; vācaḥstomaḥ, a partic. Ekāha , ŚrS. )