Search all dictionaries

Derived forms and compounds

• -टम् A field.

• -आघातः butting, striking against a bank of declivity; अभ्यस्यन्ति तटाघातं निर्जितैरावता गजाः Ku.2.5.

• -द्रुमः a tree standing on the shore.

• -भू the shore; आसीना तटभुवि सस्मितेन भर्त्रा Śi.8.19.

• -स्थ

  1. Adjective
  2. (Literal) situated on a bank or declivity.
  3. (Figurative) standing aloof, neutral, indifferent, alien, passive; तटस्थः स्वानर्थान् घटयति च मौनं च भजते Māl.1.14; तटस्थं नैराश्यात् Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)3.13; मया तटस्थस्त्वमुपद्रुतोसि Name3.55. (where तटस्थ has sense 1 also). (-स्थः) an indifferent person, one neither a friend nor a foe. (-स्थम्) that property or लक्षण of a thing which is distinct from its nature, and yet is the property by which it is known; Exempli gratia, for example गन्धवत्त्व in the case of पृथ्वी.

Derived forms and compounds

• -टः

  1. A precipice, a steep crag.
  2. Name of a hill.
  3. The lower part of the earth. -Comp -प्रपातः a steep precipice; a fall headlong form a precipice; a precipitate fall; मनोरथानामतटप्रपातः Ś.6.1. of my hopes there is a precipitate fall. (Some read the line -as मनोरथा नाम तटप्रपातः and take it to mean 'verily our desires are like the crumblings of river banks'.)