वशा

{ vaśā }

A dictionary, Marathi and English

A surveyor or overseer of fields, crops, and the operations of reaping, thrashing &c. employed by the proprietor as a guard again the appropriations of the actual cultivator. The word is much the same with साणा q.v.

महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश

 पु. शेतकामावर देखरेख करणारा , शेत राखणारा इसम ; शेताचा रखवालदार . साणा पहा . गांव तर आज पांच वर्षे झाली अगदी वशाड पडला आहे ! - सह्याद्री ८९ .
( कु . ) वाईट . वशाडी - स्त्री . ओसाडपणा ; वसाडी . ओसाडी पहा .

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

वशा  f.  a f. See below
वशा  f.  b f. (rather fr. √ वाश्, as ‘the lowing animal’, than fr. √ वश्) a cow ( esp. barren), [RV.]; [AV.]; [Br.]; [GṛŚrS.]
अवी   (with ) a ewe, [TS.]; [TBr.]
a female elephant, [Vikr.]; [Kathās.]
a barren woman, [Mn. viii, 28]
any woman or wife, [L.]
a daughter, [L.]
Premna Spinosa and Longifolia, [L.]
वशा   [ cf. accord. to some, Lat. vacca.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

वशा [vaśā]   [वश्-अच्]
A woman.
A wife.
A daughter.
A husband's sister.
A cow.
A barren woman; वशाऽपुत्रासु चैवं स्याद्रक्षणं निष्कुलासु च [Ms.8.28.]
A barren cow.
A female elephant; स्त्रीरत्नेषु ममोर्वशी प्रियतमा यूथे तवेयं वशा [V.4.25.]
A harlot; L. D. B.-Comp.
-पायिन्  m. m. a dog; L. D. B.
-लोभः   A method of catching elephants by seducing them with females; [Mātaṅga L.1.7.]