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Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. वर्षvarṣaर्षम् [rṣam], र्षम् [वृष् भावे घञ् कर्तरि अच् वा]
    1. र्षम् rṣam, र्षम् वृष् भावे घञ् कर्तरि अच् वा
    2. Raining, rain, a shower of rain; तपाम्यहमहं वर्षं निगृह्णाभ्युत्सृजामि च Bg.9.19; विद्युत्स्तनितवर्षेषु Ms.4.13; Me.37.
    3. Sprinkling, effusion, throwing down, a shower of anything; सुरभि सुरविमुक्तं पुष्पवर्षं पपात R.12.12; so शरवर्षः, शिलावर्षः, लाजवर्षः etc.
    4. Seminal effusion.
    5. A year (usually only Neuter); इयन्ति वर्षाणि तया सहोग्रमभ्यस्यतीव व्रतमासिधारम् R.13.67; न ववर्ष वर्षाणि द्वादश दशशताक्षः Dk.; वर्षभोग्येण शापेन Me.1.
    6. A division of the world, a continent; (nine such divisions are usually enumerated: 1 कुरु; 2 हिर- ण्मय; 3 रम्यक; 4 इलावृत; 5 हरि; 6 केतुमाला; 7 भद्राश्व; 8 किंनर; and 9 भारत); यस्मिन् नव वर्षाणि Bhāg.5.16.6. एतदूढगुरुभारभारतं वर्षमद्य मम वर्तते वशे Śi.14.5.
    7. India (Equivalent to भारतवर्ष).
    8. A cloud (only Masculine according to Hemachandra).
    9. A day; अप्राप्तयौवनं बालं पञ्चवर्षसहस्रकम् Rām.7.73.5. (com. वर्षशब्दोऽत्र दिनपरः).
    10. A place of residence; वर्षमस्य गिरेर्मध्ये रामेण श्रीमता कृतम् Mb.3. 13.12.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -अंशः, -अंशकः, -अङ्गः a month.

    • -अम्बु Neuter rain-water.

    • -अयुतम् ten thousand years.

    • -अर्चिस् Masculine the planet Mars.

    • -अवसानम् the autumn or Śarat season.

    • -आघोषः a frog.

    • -आमदः a peacock.

    • -उपलः

      1. hail stone
      2. a kind of sweetmeat ball; घनैरमीषां परिवेषकैर्जनैरवर्षि वर्षोपलगोलकावली Name16.1.
    • -करः a cloud. (-री) a cricket.

    • -कालः the rainy season.

    • -केतुः

      1. a red-flowering Punar-navā. कोशः, षः a month.
      2. an astrologer.
    • -गणः (Plural) a long series of years; बहून् वर्षगणान् घोरान् Ms.12.54.

    • -गिरिः, -पर्वतः 'a Varṣa mountain', id est, that is one of the mountain-ranges supposed to separate the different divisions of the world from one another; (they are seven: हिमवान् हेमकूटश्च निषधो मेरुरेव च । चैत्रः कर्णी च शृङ्गी च सप्तैते वर्षपर्वताः).

    • -घ्न Adjective protecting from rain.

    • -ज

      1. Adjective (वर्षेज also)
      2. produced in the rainy season.
      3. one year old.
    • -त्रम् an umbrella; छायां ते दिनकरभाः प्रबाधमानं वर्षत्रं भरत करोतु मूर्ध्नि शीताम् Rām. 2.17.18.

    • -धरः

      1. a cloud.
      2. a eunuch, an attendant on the women's apartments; (वर्षधर्ष in the same sense). See वर्षवर.
      3. the ruler of a Varṣa; वर्षधराभिवादिताभि- वन्दितचरणः Bhāg.5.3.16; also वर्षप-पति.
      4. a mountain bounding a Varṣa.
    • -पदम् a calender.

    • -पाकिन् Masculine the hog-plum.

    • -पूगः a series or collection of years.

    • -प्रतिबन्धः a drought.

    • -प्रवेगः a heavy shower of rain; वर्ष- प्रवेगा विपुलाः पतन्ति Rām.4.28.45.

    • -प्रियः the Chātaka bird.

    • -रात्रः the rainy season; वर्षरात्रे स्थितो रामः Rām. 4.3.1.

    • -वरः a eunuch, an attendant on the women's apartments; वर्षवराभ्यागारिकैः Kau. Atmanepada 1.21; ये स्वल्पसत्त्वाः प्रथममात्मीयाः स्त्रीस्वभाविनः । जात्या न दुष्टाः कार्येषु ते वै वर्षवराः स्मृताः ॥ Ak.; M.4.4/5; Rām.2.65.7; Mb.9.62.5.

    • -वृद्धिः Feminine birth-day.

    • -शतम् a century, one hundred years.

    • -सहस्रम् a thousand years.

    In the Gita9·19

    तपाम्यहमहं वर्षं निगृह्णाम्युत्सृजामि च ।

    tapāmyahamahaṁ varṣaṁ nigṛhṇāmyutsṛjāmi ca, — I give heat, I withhold and send forth the rain; immortality and also death, existent and non-existent am I, O Arjuna. 9·19
    • वर्षम्varṣamaccusative singular of the masculine noun varṣa (rain).

Macdonell

A. A. Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary
  1. वर्षvarṣa[varsh-á] a. [√vrish] raining (--˚, C.); m. (C.), n. (V., C.), rain; shower, of (flowers, ar rows, dust, etc.…

    [varsh-á] adjective [√vrish] raining (--˚, Classical (post-Vedic) Sanskrit); masculine (Classical (post-Vedic) Sanskrit), neuter (Veda, Vedic, Classical (post-Vedic) Sanskrit), rain; shower, of (flowers, ar rows, dust, etc., genitive, --˚); the rains, rainy season (plural: Atharva-veda, rare); year (commonly applied to age); division of the world, plain between mountain ranges (seven or nine are assumed): instrumental within a year; ablative after a year; locative repeated every year: (a)-ka, adjective raining, showering; -karman, neuter action of raining; (a)-gana, masculine plural long series of years.

  2. अत्रिवर्षatrivarṣa[a-tri-varsha] a. not yet three years old.

    [a-tri-varsha] adjective not yet three years old.

  3. अद्विवर्षadvivarṣa[a-dvi-varsha] a. not yet two years old.

    [a-dvi-varsha] adjective not yet two years old.

  4. अधारावर्षadhārāvarṣa[a-dhârâ-varsha] ad. without a shower of rain (˚--).

    [a-dhârâ-varsha] adverb, -ial, -ially without a shower of rain (˚--).

Monier-Williams

Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. वर्षvarṣamf(आ)n. (fr. √वृष्) raining (ifc. e.g. काम-व्˚, raining according to one's wish) BhP.
    1. mf(आ)neuter gender (from √वृष्) raining (in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound' exempli gratia, 'for example' काम-व्that the rest of a word is to be supplied, raining according to one's wish) BhP.
    2. masculine gender and (older) neuter gender (in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound' f(आ).) rain, raining, a shower (either "of rain", or figuratively "of flowers, arrows, dust etc."; also applied to seminal effusion) fg-veda etc.
    3. masculine gender (plural) the rains AV. (confer, compare वर्षा feminine)
    4. masculine gender a cloud Lexicographers
    5. masculine gender a year (commonly applied to age) Breton etc. (आ वर्षात्, for a whole year; वर्षात्, after a year; वर्षेण within a year; वर्षे every year)
    6. masculine gender a day (?) R. vii, 73, 5 (Scholiast or Commentator)
    7. masculine gender a division of the earth as separated off by certain mountain ranges (9 such divisions are enumerated, viz. Kuru कुरु, Hiran2maya हिरण्मय, Ramyaka रम्यक, Ila7vr2ita इला*वृत, Hari हरि; Ketu केतु - ma1la1 माला, Bhadra7s3va भद्राश्व, Kim2nara किंनर, and Bha1rata भारत; sometimes the number given is 7) MBh. Pur. (confer, compare IW. 420)
    8. masculine gender India (Equivalent to भारतवर्ष and जम्बु-द्वीप) Lexicographers
    9. masculine gender Name of a grammarian Katha1s.
    10. see page and participle926&case
  2. अङ्गारवर्षaṅgāravarṣan. a shower of sparks from burning charcoal, Bcar.

    neuter gender a shower of sparks from burning charcoal, Bcar.

  3. अद्विवर्षadvivarṣamfn. not two years old, Pa1rGr2.

    masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective not two years old, Pa1rGr2.

  4. अपरवर्षाaparavarṣāf. pl. the latter part of the rains.

    feminine plural the latter part of the rains.

  5. अपात्रवर्षणapātravarṣaṇan. liberality towards the undeserving, Ka1m.

    neuter gender liberality towards the undeserving, Ka1m.