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अभीर (abhIra)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
अभीर
m.
 (-रः) A cowherd.
E.
 अभि and ईर to send, अच् affix
also आभीर.
Yates
English
अभीर (रः) 1.
m.
 A cowherd.
Wilson
English
अभीर
m.
 (-रः) A cowherd.
E.
 अभि, and ईर to send, अच् affix
also अभीर.
Apte
English
अभीरः [abhīrḥ], [अभिमुखीकृत्य ईरयति गाः, ईर्-अच्]
A cowherd
N.
 of a pastora people
more usually written आभीर q. v. -री The language of the अभीर people.-रम्
N.
 of a metre, see आभीर.
Comp.
 -पल्ली a hamlet of cowherds.
Apte 1890
English
अभीरः [अभिमुखीकृत्य ईरयति गाः, ईर्, अच्] 1 A cowherd.
2 N. of a pastoral people
more usually written आभीर q. v.
री The language of the अभीर people.
रं N. of a metre see आभीर.
Comp.
पल्ली a hamlet of cowherds.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अभीर (incorrectly) for आभीर, q.v.
Monier Williams 1872
English
अभीर अभीर, अस्, m. a cowherd
N. of a
people
(ई), f. the language of this people
(अम्), n.,
N. of a metre, containing four Pādas with eleven
Mātrās in each Pāda.
Goldstucker
English
अभीर Tatpur. 1. m. (-रः) A cowherd. ‘According to
Manu (X. 15.) the Abhīra is of mixed origin, the offspring
of a Brāhmaṇa father and a mother of the Ambashtha or
medical caste
but the Abhīras were a people, a pastoral
tribe, settled about the beginning of the Christian era, on
or near the lower course of the Indus on a tract known to
classical geographers, as the Abiria of Ptolemy, lying north
of the Sahyadri mountain and of Syrastrene. The Abhīras
of Saurāṣtra are mentioned in the Mahābhārata. From
their pastoral habits the name came to be generally applied
to the cowherds of Hindustan. In the spoken dialects of
upper India the word is corrupted to Ahīr, Uheer
in Ben-
gālī and Marāṭhī it is unchanged, occurring as Abhīr.’
(Wilson's Glossary of Indian Terms.) See Lassen's Ind. Alt.
vol. 1. pp. 106. 396. 539. 546. 705. 798. 799. 823
II. pp. 385.
547. 553. 592. 792. 855. 953. 956. &c.--The word as a
name of a people occurs in the Purāṇas ‘always conjoined
with the Śūdras, as if conterminous’ (Wilson's Viṣṇu-P.
p. 195 n. 154).--The Sāhityadarpaṇa mentions the Abhīras
as assistants appointed in, or belonging to, the harem
(together with dwarfs, eunuchs, Kirātas or mountaineers,
Mlechchhas or barbarians, the mock-brother-in-law of a
king, i. e. the brother of his concubine, hump-backs, mutes
&c.: वामनषण्डकिरातम्लेच्छाभीराः शकारकुब्जाद्याः). The
same work, in defining the purposes for which Sanskṛt
and the Prākṛt-dialects are used in the dramatic dialogue,
appropriates the dialect of the Abhīras (which therefore is
not considered by the Sāh. as an Apabhranśa-dialect) to
cowherds and woodcutters
comp. आभीरी s. v. आभीर
(आभीरेषु तथाभीरी…। आभीरी शावरी चापि काष्ठ-
पत्त्रोपजीविषु)
others hold the Abhīra-dialect as belonging
to the Apabhranśa, when it would be excluded from dra-
matic use. See अपभ्रंश and Lassen's Institutiones Linguae
Pracriticae.--(The word occurs usually in the form
आभीर
the dialect spoken by the Abhīras is always called
आभीरी, not अभीरी.)
2. n. (? -रम्) The name of a Mātrāvṛtta or Prākṛt
metre, regulated by quantity
it consists of a stanza of
four lines with eleven mātrās in each line (the value of a
mātrā being a short syllable, and a long syllable equal to
two short), viz. each line being composed either of seven
mātrās and a Scolius (˘¯˘), or of a Dactylus (¯˘˘),
a Iambus (˘¯) and a Scolius, or of a Scolius, a Tri-
brachys (˘˘˘) and a Scolius. E. ईर् with अभि, kṛt aff.
अच् (according to several comm. of the Amarak.)
but the
word is probably not of Sanskṛ4tic origin.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
अभीरः
पुं*
 - "अभिमुखी कृत्य ईरयति गाः, अभि+ईर्+अच्"
"अहीर, गोपाल, गड़रिया"
अभीरः
पुं*
 - "अभिमुखी कृत्य ईरयति गाः, अभि+ईर्+अच्"
ग्वाला
अभीरः
पुं*
 - "अभिमुखी कृत्य ईरयति गाः, अभि+ईर्+अच्"
एक देश तथा उसके निवासी
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
अभीर
पदविभागः - > पुल्लिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಗೋಪಾಲಕ /ಗೊಲ್ಲ
निष्पत्तिः - > अभि + ईर (गतौ कम्पने च) + णिच् - "अच्" (३-१-१३४)
व्युत्पत्तिः - > अभि ईरयति
L R Vaidya
English
aBIra {% m. %} 1. A cowherd
2. the name of a pastoral tribe (the more correct form of this word is आभीर).
E Bharati Sampat
Sanskrit
(पुं.) अभि अभिमुखीकृत्य ईरयति गा: । अभि+ईर्(गतौ कम्पने च)+णिच्+अच् । ‘नन्दिग्रहि०’ ३.१.१३८। गोपालक:। (स्त्री) अभीरी । अभीर+ ङीप् । ‘जातेरस्त्रीविषयादयोपधात्’ ४.१.६३।
Sanskrit Tibetan
Tibetan
mngon par dga' ba'i yul
अभीर
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
अभीरः,
पुं,
 (अभीरयति गा अभिमुखीकृत्य गोष्ठंनयति, अभि + ईर + णिच् + अच् ।) आभीरः ।गोपः । इत्यमरटीकायां रमानाथः ॥
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
अभीर
पु०
 अभिमुखीकृत्य ईरयति गाः अभि + ईरः अच् ।गीपे जातिवाचकादन्तशब्दत्वेन ततः स्त्रियां ङीप् ।
Burnouf
French
अभीर अभीर
m.
 pasteur
la caste des pasteurs. Cf.
आभीर।