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केव (keva)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
केव r. 1st cl. (ऋ) केवृ (केवते) To serve.
Wilson
English
केव r. 1st cl. (ऋ) केवृ (केवते) To serve.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
keva (in AMg. and other Pkt. in cpds. only
see keva-cira, keva-rūpa
and cf. kevaka, kevatika, kevattaka), how many? KP 〔147.7〕 (prose) keva yuṣmākaṃ sabrahmacāriṇa(ḥ), how many are living the religious life with you? A theory of the origin of the word in Pischel 〔149〕
but more likely keva was formed as rime-word to eva- (= Skt. evam)
note particularly keva-rūpa: eva(ṃ)rūpa. —In MPS 〔34.53〕 read (ke)vaṃ for ed. (kī)van (ms. vaṃ, after lacuna), how great? (prāsādaṃ).
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
केव, सेवने इति कविकल्पद्रुमः
(भ्वां--आत्मं--सकं--सेट्--ऋदित् ।) ङ, केवते ऋ, अचिकेवत् ।इति दुर्गादासः
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
केव सेवने
भ्वा०
आत्म०
सक०
सेट् केवते अकेविष्ट, चिकेवेऋदित् णिचि अचिकेवत्