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अप्वा (apvA)

 
Capeller Eng
English
अप्वा
f.
 a kind of disease.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अप्वा॑ (3
अ॑प्वा,
Naigh.
 )
f.
 ‘Impurity’,
N.
 of a deity presiding over evacuation from fright,
RV.
 x, 103, 12 (voc. अप्वे),
AV.
 ix, 8, 9 (acc. अप्वा॑म्).
Monier Williams 1872
English
अप्वा अप्वा, f. (fr. अप or fr. obs. rt. अप्?),
disease
danger
the region of the throat or neck.
Goldstucker
English
अप्वा f. (-प्वा) (ved.)
^1 Disease.
^2 Danger (Yāska: व्याधिर्वा
भयं वा).
^3 The throat (Uṇṇādikoṣa: …अप्वा तु स्त्री
कण्ठदेशके). E. According to Yāska and Mahīdhara, a Tatpur.
of अप (with the loss of the final अ) and वा, kṛt aff. ड,
‘because it removes happiness and life’
for the third
meaning the comm. of the Uṇnādik. gives the etym. आप्
(shortened to अप्, but see the etym. of अप्त), uṇ. aff. व
(which would correspond with the uṇ. aff. क्वन् of the Uṇ.
Sūtras). Neither etym. is very probable.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
अप्वा , lies अपुआ꣡. — अप्वी देवी Ind. Stud. 17, 381 f.
Vedic Reference
English
Apvā. — A disease affecting the stomach, ^1 possibly dysentery,
as suggested by Zimmer, ^2 on the ground that the disease is
invoked to confound the enemy.^3 Weber^4 considers that it is
diarrhœa induced by fear, as often in the Epic.^5 This view is
supported by Bloomfield, ^6 and was apparently that of Yāska.^7
1) Av. ix. 8, 9.
2) Altindisches Leben, 389.
3) Rv. x. 103, 12 = Av. iii. 2, 5 =
Sāmaveda, ii. 1211 = Vājasaneyi Saṃ-
hitā, xvii. 44.
4) Indische Studien, 9, 482
17, 184.
5) Indische Studien, 17, 184.
6) Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 327.
7) Nirukta, ix. 33.
Cf. Whitney, Translation of the
Atharvaveda, 86, 87.
Grassman
German
(apvā́), apuā́, f., eine Krankheit.
-e [V.] {929, 12}.
(-uā́m AV. 9, 8, 9.)