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नहुस् (nahus)

 
Capeller Eng
English
न॑हुस्
m.
 race, lineage, tribe
neighbour, comrade, friend.
Spoken Sanskrit
English
नहुस् nahus
m.
 man
नहुस् nahus
m.
 mankind
नहुस् nahus
m.
 neighbour
नहुस् nahus
m.
 neighbourhood
नहुस् nahus
m.
 fellow-creature
Apte
English
नहुस् [nahus],
m.
A neighbour.
A man.
Apte 1890
English
नहुस् m. 1 A neighbour.
2 A man.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
न॑हुस्
m.
 neighbour, fellow-creature, man, (comp. °हुष्-टर, nearer than a n°, x, 49, 8)
(collect., also
pl.
 ) neighbourhood, mankind,
RV.
 (cf.
Naigh.
 ii, 2).
Monier Williams 1872
English
नहुस् नहुस्, उस्, m. a man, one who does
not belong to one's own immediate community, a
neighbour [cf. नाभि
Mod. Germ. nahe]
(collec-
tively) the neighbourhood.
Macdonell
English
नहुस् náh-us,
m.
 [connexion], descent, race
🞄kinsman
neighbour.
Lanman
English
náhus, m. neighbor. [√nah.]
Vedic Reference
English
Nahus occurs several times in the Rigveda, but the exact
sense is not certain. Ludwig^1 sees in the Nahus a tribe on
the Sindhu (Indus)^2 or Sarasvatī, ^3 rich in horses, ^4 allied with
the Bharatas and Śimyus, ^5 connected with Kakṣīvant and the
Vārṣāgiras, ^6 and having as kings Maśarśāra and Āyavasa.^7
Roth, ^8 on the other hand, sees in Nahus the general sense of
‘neighbour’ as opposed to a member of one's own people (Viś)
this interpretation is supported by the occurrence of the phrase
nahuṣo nahuṣṭara, ^9 ‘closer than a neighbour.’ Nahuṣa has the
same sense as Nahus in two passages of the Rigveda, ^10 but in
one it seems to be intended for the proper name of a man.^11
Possibly Nahus was originally a man like Manu.^12
1) Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 206.
2) Rv. i. 31, 11
vi. 22, 10
46, 7
x. 80, 6.
3) Rv. vii. 95, 2. Cf. ix. 88, 2
91, 2.
4) Rv. viii. 6, 24.
5) Rv. i. 100, 18
vii. 18, 5.
6) Rv. i. 100, 16. 17.
7) Rv. i. 122, 15. Cf. also nahuṣo
viśaḥ, Rv. vii. 6, 5
x. 49, 8
99, 7,
etc.
8) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
9) Rv. x. 49, 8. Cf. also viii. 8, 3.
10) i. 31, 11
v. 12, 6.
11) Rv. viii. 46, 27.
12) Oldenberg, Sacred Books of the East,
46, 28
Bergaigne, Religion Védique, 2,
324. But Nahus, if it was originally
the name of a mythic forefather, cannot
have been that of a forefather recog-
nized by all the tribes, for there is no
passage in which it applies to all men.
Geldner, Ṛgveda, Glossar, 92, regards
Nahus as a tribe, Nahuṣa as a king.
Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 128, leaves
the question open. Cf. Muir, Sanskrit
Texts, 1^2, 165, n. 7
179 et seq.
307
et seq.
Capeller
German
न॑हुस्
m.
 Stamm, Geschlecht
Stammgenosse.
Grassman
German
náhus, a. m. [von nah, vgl. náhuṣa], 1〉 a. befreundet
2〉 m. Freund, Genosse, Nachbar
3〉 m. collectiv oder plur., Nachbarschaft, Nachbarvölker. — Die Bedeutung ist oft schwer festzustellen
namentlich bei der vieldeutigen Form náhuṣas, welche auch Nom. von náhuṣa sein könnte.
-uṣā [I.] 2〉 tváyā (índreṇa) … trivárūthena 〰 {467, 7}.
-uṣas [G.] 1〉 sūrés {122, 11}. — 3〉 {925, 7}(?).
-uṣas [Ab.] 2〉 {875, 8}. — 3〉 {628, 3} (pári).
-uṣas [N. p.] 1〉 mánuṣas {906, 6}(?).
-uṣas [A.] 2〉 {122, 8}. _{122, 10}. — 3〉 {522, 5}.
-uṣṭaras 1〉 ahám (índras) náhuṣas 〰 {875, 8}.