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दन्त् (dant)

 
Capeller Eng
English
द॑न्त्
m.
 (adj. —°
f.
 दती) tooth.
Macdonell
English
दन्त् dánt,
m.
 (strong base of dát, only nm. 🞄dan) tooth.
Benfey
English
दन्त् दन्त् (probably ptcple. of the
pres. of अद्
cf. ὀδούς, ὀδόντος),
1.
m.
 ,
without nom. voc., acc. sing., and du.,
and nom. and voc. pl., A tooth,
Bhāg. P. 3, 13, 39.
2. Often latter part of
comp. words, e. g. उभयतोदन्त्, i. e.
उभयतस्-,
adj.
 Having two rows of
teeth, Man. 1, 39 (43, anomalous nom.
pl.).
एकतस्-,
adj.
 Having but one row of
teeth, Man. 5, 18.
कर-पाद-,
m.
 A
hand, a foot, or a tooth, Yājñ. 2, 219.
सु-,
adj.
f.
 दती, Having handsome teeth.
-- Cf. Lat. dens, and the next.
Lanman
English
dánt [396], m. tooth. [cf. ὀδόντα, Lat.
dentem, Goth. tunϸus, AS. tōð, Eng. tooth,
Old High Ger. zand, Ger. Zahn, ‘tooth.’]
Vedic Reference
English
Dant, Danta, ‘tooth, ’ is frequently mentioned from the
Rigveda onwards.^1 Cleansing (dhāv) the teeth was an ordinary
act, especially in preparation for a sacrifice, and accompanied
bathing, shaving of the hair and beard (keśa-śmaśru), and the
cutting of the nails.^2 A hymn of the Atharvaveda^3 celebrates
the appearance of the first two teeth of a child, though its
exact interpretation is doubtful.^4 In the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa^5
there is a reference to a child's first teeth falling out. The
word seems in the Rigveda^6 once to denote an elephant's tusk.
Whether dentistry was practised is doubtful. The occurrence
in the Aitareya Āraṇyaka^7 of Hiraṇya-dant, ‘gold-toothed, ’ as
the name of a man, is perhaps significant, especially as it is
certain that the stopping of teeth with gold was known at
Rome as early as the legislation of the Twelve Tables.^8
1) Rv. vii. 55, 2
x. 68, 6
Av. v. 23,
3
29, 4
vi. 56, 3, etc. The more
usual form is Danta, Rv. iv. 6, 8
vi. 75, 11
Av. iv. 3, 6, etc.
2) Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii. 6, 2 (not
exactly paralleled in Taittirīya Saṃhitā,
vi. 1, 1, 2 et seq.).
3) vi. 140.
4) Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 321
Weber, Indische Studien, 5, 224
Grill,
Hundert Lieder, ^2 176
Bloomfield, Hymns
of the Atharvaveda, 540, 541
Atharva-
veda, 71
Whitney, Translation of the
Atharvaveda, 386.
5) vii. 14
Śāṅkhāyana Srauta Sūtra,
xv. 18.
6) iv. 6, 8
Pischel, Vedische Studien,
1, 99
Oldenberg, Sacred Books of the
East, 46, 341, 342.
7) ii. 1, 5.
8) Keith, Aitareya Āraṇyaka, 206. See
Wordsworth, Fragments and Specimens
of Early Latin, 537.
Capeller
German
द॑न्त् (adj.—°,
f.
 दती) = folg.
Stchoupak
French
दन्त्-
(दत्-) (ord. suppléé par दन्त- aux formes fortes)
m.
 =
दन्त-।
दद्-आयुध- a. à qui ses dents servent d'arme.