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निनाह्य (ninAhya)

 
Apte
English
निनाह्यः [nināhyḥ], A water-jar to be put into the ground.
Apte 1890
English
निनाह्यः A water-jar to be put into the ground.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
नि-ना॑ह्य (or नि-नाह्य᳡),
m.
 a water-jar put into the ground,
ŚBr.
Monier Williams 1872
English
नि-नाह्य, अस्, m., Ved. a water-jar
(according to
the commentaries) a water-jar put into the ground.
Vedic Reference
English
Ni-nāhya denotes in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa (iii. 9, 2, 8)
a ‘water jar, ’ so called, according to the commentator, because
it was buried in the ground.^1 Eggeling^2 explains it as ‘a
vessel or cistern dug into the ground for keeping water cool.’
1) As meaning etymologically ‘to be
fastened or fixed down.’
2) Sacred Books of the East, 26, 223,
n. 4.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
निनाह्य
पु०
 नीचैर्नाह्यः भूमौ निखननीयः नि + नह-कर्मणि ण्यत् । भूमौ नीचैः खननीये १ मणिके २ महाघटे च “अस्तमितश्चेत् निनाह्यात् पुरेजानश्चेत्” कात्या०श्रौ० ८ । ९ । ५८ “निनाह्यात् मणिकात्” संग्रहः “यदिपुरेजानः स्यात् निनाह्यात् गृह्णीयात्” शत० ब्रा०३ । ९ । २ । ८ “निनाह्यात् स्वगृहस्थितप्रभूतघटादेः” भा० ।