Sanskrit dictionary (beta)

Derived forms and compounds

• -अपह

  1. Adjective removing darkness or ignorance, illumining, enlightening; आगमादिव तमोपहादितः संभवन्ति मतयो भवच्छिदः Ki.5.22.
  2. (हः) the sun.
  3. the moon.
  4. fire.
  5. a Buddha.

• -अरिः

  1. the sun.
  2. the moon.
  3. fire.

• -काण्डः, -ण्डम् great or spreading darkness.

• -गुः an epithet of Rāhu.

• -गुणः see तमस् above (4).

• -घ्नः

  1. the sun.
  2. the moon
  3. fire.
  4. Viṣṇu.
  5. Śiva.
  6. Knowledge.
  7. a Buddha.

• -ज्योतिस् Masculine a fire-fly.

• -ततिः spreading darkness.

• -निष्ठ Adjective taking to hell (नरकप्रद); Ms.12. 95.

• -नुद्

  1. Masculine 'तमोनुदोऽग्निचन्द्रार्का' इति विश्वः;
  2. a shining body.
  3. the sun.
  4. the moon; नरेन्द्रकन्यास्तमवाप्य सत्पतिं तमोनुदं दक्षसुता इवाबभुः R.3.33.
  5. fire.
  6. a lamp, light.

• -नुदः

  1. the sun.
  2. the moon.
  3. the Supreme Being.

• -प्रभा a sort of hell.

• -प्रवेशः

  1. groping in the dark.
  2. mental gloom. भिद्, मणिः a fire-fly.
  3. a sapphire.
  4. a star.
  5. the moon; तमोमणिस्तु खद्योते नीलमण्यामुडौ शशौ Nm.

• -राजः a kind of sugar; Latin D. B.

• -विकारः sickness, disease.

• -विशाल Adjective abounding in gloom; तमोविशालश्च मूलतः सर्गः Sāṅ. K.54.

• -वृत

  1. Adjective
  2. obscured, clouded.
  3. affected with anger, fear etc.

• -हन्, -हर

  1. Adjective dispersing darkness. (-Masculine)
  2. the sun.
  3. the moon.