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The corpus record — Sanskrit

yac

yac in comp. for yad

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Where it lives

  • Svetasvatara Upanisad 4 · 23.28/10k
  • Mandukya Upanisad 3 · 15.38/10k
  • Bhagavad Gita 10 · 11.65/10k
  • Chandogya Upanisad 13 · 2.77/10k
  • Aitareya Upanisad 1 · 2.06/10k
  • Taittiriya Upanisad 1 · 1.89/10k
  • Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 5 · 0.66/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. يَc

yac in comp. for yad

2. yāc

yāc cl. 1. P. Ā. ( Dhātup. xxi, 3 ) yācati, te (usually Ā. in sense of ‘asking for one's self’; pf. yayāca Gr. , yayāce, Br. &c.; aor. ayācīt, ciṣṭa Subj. yāciṣat, ṣāmahe, RV. ; Prec. yācyāt Gr. ; fut. yācitā, ib. ; yāciṣyati, te, Br. &c.; inf. yācitum, AV. &c.; ind.p. yācitvā, yācya, Br. &c.), to ask, beg, solicit, entreat, require, implore (with double acc. ; or with abl. , rarely gen. of pers. ; the thing asked may also be in acc. with prati, or in dat. , or ibc. with arthe, or artham), RV. &c. &c.; (with punar) to ask anything back, TBr. ; (with kanyām) to be a suitor for a girl, to ask a girl in marriage from ( abl. , rarely acc. ) or for (kṛte or arthe; also with vivAhA rTam ), MBh. ; Kāv. &c.; to offer or tender anything ( acc. ) to ( dat. ), AV. ; to promise (?), ib. : Pass. yācyate, to be asked (‘for’, acc. ; rarely of things), MBh. ; Kāv. &c.; Caus. yācayati (te, AV. ; aor. ayayācat, Pāṇ. vii, 4, 2 ), to cause to ask or woo, MBh. ; to request anything ( acc. ) for (arthe), Pañcat. : Desid. yiyāciṣate, Pāṇ. vi, 1, 8 , Vārtt. 3, Pat. : Intens. yāyācyate, yāyākti Gr.

In the wild

6 of 37 attestations shown.

Where it came from

  • Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. yÄC (vol. 2, scan p. 437; entry #3441).

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.