उभ्नाति

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *ubʰnáHti, Proto-Indo-Iranian *ubʰnáHti, from Proto-Indo-European *ubʰ-néH-ti, from *webʰ-.

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ubʱ.nɑ́ː.ti/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ubʱˈn̪ɑː.t̪i/

Verb

उभ्नाति • (ubhnā́ti) third-singular indicative (class 9, type P, root उभ्)

1. to hurt, kill
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.63.4

     त्वं ह त्यदिन्द्र चोदीः सखा वृत्रं यद्वज्रिन्वृषकर्मन्न् उभ्नाः ।
     यद्ध शूर वृषमणः पराचैर्वि दस्यूँर्योनावकृतो वृथाषाट् ॥

     tvaṃ ha tyadindra codīḥ sakhā vṛtraṃ yadvajrinvṛṣakarmann ubhnāḥ.
     yaddha śūra vṛṣamaṇaḥ parācairvi dasyūm̐ryonāvakṛto vṛthāṣāṭ.

     That, as a friend, thou furtheredst, O Indra, when, Thunderer, strong in act, thou crushedst Vrtra;
     When, Hero, thou, great-souled, with easy conquest didst rend the Dasyus in their distant dwelling.

2. to cover; fill

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “उभ्नाति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 216.