प्रहा

{ prahā }

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

प्र    a.-√ 2. हा Ā., -जिहीते, to drive off, haste away, [RV.];

to spring up, [ŚBr.]
प्र    b.-√ 3. हा P. -जहाति, (3. pl. pr. irreg. -जहन्ति, [MBh.]; fut. 3. du. Ā. -हास्येते, [R.]),

to leave, [ŚBr.] &c. &c.;

to desert, quit, abandon, give up, renounce, violate (a duty), break (a promise), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.;

to send off, throw, hurl, [Bhaṭṭ.];

(incorrectly for Pass.) to cease, disappear, [MBh.] :

Pass. -हीयते, to be relinquished or neglected, be lost, fail, cease, perish, [Mn.]; [MBh.];

to be vanquished, succumb, [MBh.] :

Caus. -हापयति, to drive away, remove, destroy, [BhP.]
प्र-हा  f.  c f. a good throw at dice, any gain or advantage, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TāṇḍBr.] (= प्र-हन्तृ, [Sāy.])

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प्र हा

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

प्रहा [prahā]   3 [P.]
   To give up, forsake, abandon, relinquish; प्रजहाति यदा कामान् [Bg.2.55,39;] मोदमेतौ प्रहास्येते [Rām.]
   To let go, cast, discharge; प्रजहुः शूलपट्टिशान् [Bk. 14.23.]
   To depart from. -Pass.
   To be forsaken or neglected.
   To be lost, to perish.
   To vanish, cease, disappear.
   To be vanquished, to succumb.
प्रहा [prahā]   Ved.
   A good throw at dice.
   Gain, advantage.

संस्कृतम् (Sanskrit) WN

   See : हा, त्यज्, त्यज्