वर

Noun

वर • (vára) m

1. "environing", "enclosing", circumference, space, room (RV., AV., TS.)

   वर आ पृथिव्याः (vára ā́ pṛthivyā́ḥ) — on the wide earth

2. stopping, checking (RV. I, 143, 5)

Adjective

वर • (vará)

1. choosing

   पतिंवरा (patiṃ-varā) — a woman who chooses her husband for herself

   स्वयंवरा (svayaṃ-varā) — self-choice, the election of a husband by a princess or daughter of a kṣatriya at a public assembly of suitors

Noun

वर • (vará) m

1. "chooser", one who solicits a girl in marriage, suitor, lover, bridegroom, husband (rarely "son-in-law") (RV. etc.)
2. a bridegroom's friend (MW.)
3. a dissolute man (= वित (vita) or षिड्ग (ṣiḍga)) (L.)

Adjective

वर • (vára)

1. "select", choicest, valuable, precious, best, most excellent or eminent among (genitive, locative, ablative, or compound) or for (genitive) (ŚrS., MBh. etc.)
2. (at the end of a compound) royal, princely (Jātakam.)
3. better, preferable, better than (ablative, rarely genitive) or among (ablative) (Mn., MBh. etc.)
4. eldest (W.)

Noun

वर • (vára) m

1. boon, gift, reward, benefit, blessing, favour (RV. etc.)

   वराय (várāya), वरम् आ (váram ā́), प्रति वरम् (práti váram) or वरं वरम् (váraṃ varam) — according to wish, to one's heart's content

   मद्वरात् (mad-varāt) — in consequence of the boon granted by me

   váraṃ-√vṛ — to choose a boon

   varaṃ-√yāc or ā-√kāṅkṣ or √brū or causative of pra-√arth — to prefer a request

   váraṃ √dā, varam pra-√dā or pra-√yam — to grant a boon or blessing

   varaṃ-√labh — to receive a boon or reward

2. benefit, advantage, privilege (Daś.)
3. charity, alms (VarBṛS.)
4. dowry (Pañcat.)
5. a kind of grain (= वरत (varata)) (KātyŚr., Sch.)
6. bdellium (L.)
7. sparrow (L.)
8. name of a son of श्वफल्क (śvaphalka) (VP.)
9. saffron (BhP.) (in compounds not always separable from the homographic word meaning "enclosing, etc")

Descendants