वध्या

See also: वाद्य and वद्य

Sanskrit

Etymology

From वध्य (vadhya, “to be destroyed or annhihilated, to be punished”), from √वध (vadha, “the act of killing, striking, hurting”). Compare वधति (vadhati, “to kill, to slay”)

Pronunciation

Noun

वध्या • (vadhyā) m

  1. murder, killing
    • दण्डी, दशकुमारचरित
      धन्यकस्तु दत्तपश्चाद्बन्धो वध्यभूमिं नीयमानो ऽधिकृतं जगाद...
      dhanyakastu dattapaścādbandho vadhyabhūmiṃ nīyamāno ’dhikṛtaṃ jagāda...
      But Dhanyaka, with hands tied arear and being conducted to the killingplace, said to the judge...

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0916
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “vadhyā (656)”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
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