प्रफर्वी (prapharvI)

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Capeller Eng

English

 प्रफर्वी॑ f.
  a wanton girl.

Apte

English

प्रफर्वी [prapharvī],  Ved.
  A woman having excellent hips or going in a graceful way
 a lewd girl (?).

Apte 1890

English

 प्रफर्वी Ved. A woman having excellent hips or going in a graceful way
 a lewd girl (?). 

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Monier Williams Cologne

English

 प्रफर्वी॑ f.
  a wanton or lascivious girl,  RV.
  
 AV.
  
 VS.

Monier Williams 1872

English

 प्रफर्वी प्रफर्वी,  f.,  Ved. a wanton or
lascivious girl.

Macdonell

English

 प्रफर्वी pra-pharvī́,  f.
  wanton girl
 -phulla,  🞄pp. full-blown,  blooming
 covered with flowers 🞄(lake)
 opened wide like a full-blown flower 🞄(eyes).

Vedic Reference

English

 Pra-pharvī denotes a ‘wanton woman’ in the Rigveda
(x. 85,  22),  the Atharvaveda (v. 22,  7),  and the Yajurveda
Saṃhitās.^1
1) Taittirīya Saṃhitā,  iv. 2,  5,  6
Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā,  ii. 7,  12
 Kāṭhaka
Saṃhitā,  xvi. 12
 Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, 
xii. 71.

वाचस्पत्यम्

Sanskrit

 प्रफर्वी स्त्री प्रकृष्टं पर्व नितम्बस्थानं यस्याः स्त्रिया ङीप्पृषो० । प्रशस्तनितम्बायां स्त्रियां ऋ० १० । ८५ । १२ भा० ।फर्वति गतिकर्मा इति वेददीपः । २ प्रकृष्टगतियुक्ते त्रि०
 यजु० १२ । ७६ वेददीपः ।

Capeller

German

 प्रफर्वी f.
  ein geiles Weib.

Grassman

German

 prapharvī́,  f.,  wollüstiges Mädchen.
-íam {911, 22} anyā́m icha 〰.

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