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अपचित् (apacit)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
अपचित् apacit
f.
 noxious flying insect
Apte
English
अपचित् [apacit],
f.
 A noxious flying insect
that which causes decay.
Apte 1890
English
अपचित् f. A noxious flying insect
that which causes decay.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
1. अप-√ चित्
Caus.
 Ā. (Subj. -चेत॑यातै) to abandon, turn off from (abl. ),
VS.
 ii, 17 :
Desid.
 -चिकित्सति, to wish to leave or to abandon any one (abl. ),
AV.
 xiii, 2, 15.
2. अप-चि॑त्
f.
 a sore, boil,
=
 अप-ची,
fr.
 2. अप-√ चि,
AV.
Monier Williams 1872
English
अपचित् 1. अप-चित्, Caus. P. A. -चेतयति, -ते,
or Ved. -चितयति, -ते, -यितुम्, to become faithless:
Desid. -चिकितति, -ते, to wish to leave or to abandon
any one.
2. अप-चित्, त्, f., Ved. a noxious flying insect.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
अपचि꣡त् , vgl. JAOS 13, CCXVII ff.
Vedic Reference
English
Apa-cit. — This word occurs several times in the Atharvaveda.^1
It is held by Roth, ^2 Zimmer, ^3 and others to denote an insect
whose sting produced swellings, etc. (glau). But Bloomfield^4
shows that the disease, scrofulous swellings, is what is really
meant, as is shown by the rendering (gaṇḍa-mālā, ‘inflammation
of the glands of the neck’) of Keśava and Sāyaṇa, and by the
parallelism of the later disease, apacī, the derivation being from
apa and ci, ‘to pick off.’
1) vi. 25, 1
83, 1
vii. 75, 1
77, 1.
2) St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
3) Altindisches Leben, 97. So also
Ludwig, Translation of the Rigveda,
, 342, 500.
4) American Journal of Philology, 11,
320 et seq.
Hymns of the Atharvaveda,
503, 504. Cf. Jolly, Medicin, 89
Whitney, Translation of the Athar-
vaveda, 343.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
अपचित्
त्रि०
 अप + चि--क्विप् । अपचयकारके । “इतस्ताःसर्वानश्यन्तु बाधका अपचितामिव” अथ० ६, २५, १ ।