vadan

vaḍā f. ( cf. = vaṭa) a small lump, globule, round mass or cake, L.

vad cl. 1. P. Ā. ( Dhātup. xxiii, 40 ) vadati, te ( ep. mc. also vādati; Pot. udeyam, AV. ; pf. uvāda pl. ūdima, RV. ; ūde &c., Br. ; Up. ; veditha, dāthuḥ, duḥ, Vop. ; aor. avādīt, diṣuḥ, RV. &c. &c.; Subj. vādiṣaḥ, AV. ; avA diran , ib. ; vadiṣma, ṣṭhāḥ, Br. ; Prec. udyāt, ib. ; fut. vadiṣyati, te, AV. &c.; inf. vaditos, Br. ; vaditum, ib. &c.; ind.p. uditvā, GṛŚrS. ; udya, Br. ), to speak, say, utter, tell, report, speak to, talk with, address ( P. or Ā. ; with acc. of the thing said, and acc. [with or without abhi] or gen. , or loc. of the person addressed ; also followed by yad, ‘that’, or by yadi, ‘whether’), RV. &c. &c.; ( P. ) to praise, recommend, MBh. ; to adjudge, adjudicate, TS. ; BhP. ; to indicate, designate, VarBṛS. ; to proclaim, announce, foretell, bespeak, ĀśvGṛ. ; MBh. ; Kāv. &c.; to allege, affirm, ib. ; to declare (any one or anything) to be, call (two acc. or acc. and nom. with iti), AV. &c. &c.; (with or scil. vācam) to raise the voice, sing, utter a cry (said of birds and &c.), RV. &c. &c.; ( Ā. ) to say, tell, speak to ( acc. ), ŚBr. &c. &c.; to mention, state, communicate, name, TS. ; R. ; Hariv. ; to confer or dispute about, RV. ; TS. ; to contend, quarrel, ŚBr. ; to lay claim to ( loc. ), AitBr. ; to be an authority, be eminent in ( loc. ), Pāṇ. i, 3, 47 ; to triumph, exult, Bhaṭṭ. : Pass. udyate ( aor. avādi), to be said or spoken &c., AV. ; &c. : Caus. vādayati m.c. also te ( cf. Pāṇ. i, 3, 89 ; aor. avīvadat; Pass. vādyate, ep. also ti), to cause to speak or say, MBh. ; to cause to sound, strike, play (with instr. , rarely loc. of the instrument), ŚBr. ; MBh. &c.; to play music, MBh. ; R. ; Hariv. ; (with bahu) to make much ado about one's self, Subh. ; to cause a musical instrument ( acc. ) to be played by ( instr. ), Pāṇ. i, 1, 58 Vārtt. 2; Pat. ; to speak, recite, rehearse, Hariv. : Desid. vivadiṣati, te, to desire to speak, Br. ; Gobh. : Intens. vāvadīti ( RV. ; AV. ), vāvadyate, ( ŚBr. ), vāvatti ( Gr. ), to speak or sound aloud.

vada mfn. speaking, a speaker (only ifc. ; see kuv, priyaṃv)

vāḍ See √ bāḍ.

vāda mfn. ( fr. √ vad) speaking of or about (see brahmav)