वधक (vadhaka)

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Capeller Eng

English

 व॑धक m.
  murderer,  executioner. 

Spoken Sanskrit

English

वधक 	-	  vadhaka 	-	 m.
  	-	 hangman
वधकर्माधिकारिन् 	-	  vadhakarmAdhikArin 	-	 m.
  	-	 hangman
उद्बन्धकरज्जु 	-	  udbandhakarajju 	-	 f.
  	-	 hangman's noose

वधक 	-	 vadhaka 	-	 adj.
  	-	  intending to strike or kill
वधक 	-	 vadhaka 	-	 adj.
  	-	  killing
वधक 	-	 vadhaka 	-	 adj.
  	-	  destructive
वधक 	-	 vadhaka 	-	 m.
  	-	  hangman
वधक 	-	 vadhaka 	-	 m.
  	-	  murderer
वधक 	-	 vadhaka 	-	 m.
  	-	  particular sort of reed or rush
वधक 	-	 vadhaka 	-	 m.
  	-	  assassin
वधक 	-	 vadhaka 	-	 m.
  	-	  executioner

Apte

English

वधक [vadhaka],  a.
  (-धका,  -धिका f.
 ) [हनः क्वुन्,  वध च Uṇ.*
  2.35] Killing,  destructive,  injurious.

कः An executioner,  a hangman. 

A murderer,  an assassin. 

A kind of reed.

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Apte 1890

English

 वधक a. (धका,  धिका f.) Killing,  destructive,  injurious. 
कः 1 An executioner,  a hangman. 
2 A murderer,  an assassin. 
3 A kind of reed. 

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 व॑धक mfn.
   killing,  destructive,  Uṇ.
  ii,  36

 intending to strike or kill,  Jātakam.
  

 व॑धक m.
  a murderer,  assassin,  MBh.
  
 VarBṛS.
 
 Rājat.

 an executioner,  hangman,  Kathās.
 

 a partic.  sort of reed or rush,  AV.
  
 ŚBr.

Monier Williams 1872

English

 वधक,  अस्,  अका or इका,  अम्,  killing,  destructive, 
pernicious,  injurious
 (अस्),  m. one who kills,  a
murderer,  assassin
 an executioner,  hangman,  (also
written बधक)
 a particular sort of reed or rush.

Benfey

English

 वधक वध् + अक,  also बधक, 
 I.
adj.
  Destructive,  injurious.
 II. m.
  A
murderer,  Kathās. 3,  43.

Apte Hindi

Hindi

वधकः
पुं*
  - "हनः क्वुन्, वध च"
"जल्लाद,  फांसी पर लटकाने वाला"

वधकः
पुं*
  - -
"क़ातिल,  हत्यारा"

L R Vaidya

English

 vaDaka {% m. %} 1. An executioner
 2. a murderer.

Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid

English

 vadhaka,  intending to kill (〔§ 22.3〕): dhruvaṃ khu mahyaṃ °kā upasthitāḥ SP 〔113.8〕 (vs)
 vadhake 'pi Jm 〔163.21〕 (prose),  even towards one who intended to kill (him).

Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch

German

 वधक zu töten beabsichtigend,  Jātakam. 25.

Vedic Reference

English

 Vadhaka is the name of some sort of ‘reed’ in the Atharva-
veda^1 and the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa.^2
1) viii. 8,  3.
2) v. 4,  5,  14.
Cf. Zimmer,  Altindisches Leben,  72
St. Petersburg Dictionary,  s.v.

शब्दकल्पद्रुमः

Sanskrit

 वधकः,  पुं,
   (हन्तीति । हन् + क्वुन् । “हनो वध च ।”उणा० २ । ३६ इति वधादेशः ।) वधकर्त्ता ।हिंसः । इति सिद्धान्तकौमुद्यामुणादिवृत्तिः ॥
व्याधिः । मृत्युः । इति संक्षिप्तसारोणादिवृत्तिः ॥

Capeller

German

 व॑धक m.
  Mörder,  Henker.

Stchoupak

French

 वधक-
 ag. meurtrier,  assassin 
 bourreau.

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