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Borrowed from Sanskrit वात (vāta).

  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /ʋɑːt̪/, [ʋäːt̪]

वात (vātm

  1. wind, air
  2. wind as a bodily humour
  3. rheumatism, gout

Declension of वात (masc cons-stem)

singular plural
direct वात
vāt
वात
vāt
oblique वात
vāt
वातों
vātõ
vocative वात
vāt
वातो
vāto

From Sanskrit वार्त्ता (vārttā).

वात (vāta)

  1. story, matter, affair

Alternative scripts

वात m

  1. Devanagari script form of vāta

Alternative scripts

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwáHatas (wind), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁-n̥t-os (wind). Cognate with Avestan 𐬬𐬁𐬙𐬀 (vāta), Persian باد (bâd), Ancient Greek ἀείς (aeís), Latin ventus, English wind.

  • (Early Rigvedic): IPA(key): /ʋɐ́.ɐ.tɐ/

वात (vā́ta) stemm [1]

  1. wind, air
    • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 5.78.7:

      यथा वातः पुष्करिणीं समिङ्गयति सर्वतः।
      एवा ते गर्भ एजतु निरैतु दशमास्यः ॥
      yathā vātaḥ puṣkariṇīṃ samiṅgayati sarvataḥ.
      evā te garbha ejatu niraitu daśamāsyaḥ.
      Move the unborn baby inside you just like the wind on every side ruffles a pool of lotuses,
      So that the ten-month baby may be born.
  2. wind-god
  3. wind emitted from the body
  4. wind or air as one of the humours of the body
  5. morbid affection of the windy humour, flatulence, gout, rheumatism

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *wáHtas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wáHtas, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t- (excited, raging). Cognate with Old Irish fáith, Old Norse Óðinn (Odin), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 (wōds), Old English wōd (mad, crazy) (whence English wode).

वात (vā́ta) stem[2]

  1. attacked, assailed, injured, hurt
  1. ^ Monier Williams (1899) “वात”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0934.
  2. ^ Monier Williams (1899) “वात”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0939.