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वम्र (vamra)

 
Capeller Eng
English
वम्र॑
m.
 ई॑
f.
 ant.
Apte
English
वम्रः [vamrḥ] म्री [mrī], म्री An ant.
Comp.
 -कूटम् an ant-hill.
Apte 1890
English
वम्रः
म्री An ant.
Comp.
कूटं an ant-hill.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
वम्र॑
m.
 (and f(ई).
accord.
 to some also f(आ).
derivation
fr.
 √ वम् very doubtful
cf.
 वामी) an ant,
RV.
Br.
वम्र॑
m.
N.
 of a man,
RV.
 (with वैखानस, the supposed author of x, 99).
Monier Williams 1872
English
वम्र वम्र, अस्, m. (or more frequently)
ई, f. (probably connected with वल्मी), an ant, (said
to be also आ, f.)
(अस्), m. a proper N., (Vamra
Vaikhānasa is the author of the hymn Ṛg-veda X.
99)
[cf. Gr. μύρμο-ς, μύρμ-ηξ
Lat. form-ica.]
—वम्री-कूट, अम्, n. an ant-hill.
Macdonell
English
वम्र vam-rá,
m.
 , ī́,
f.
 ant.
Benfey
English
वम्र वम्र,
1.
m.
 A proper name,
Chr. 297, 15 = Rigv. i. 112, 15.
2.
f.
रा and री, A small ant.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
वम्रः
पुं*
 - वम् + रक्
चिऊँटी
Vedic Reference
English
1. Vamra, ^1 Vamrī, ^2 are the names of the male and female
‘ant’ in the Rigveda and later. Cf. Vapā.
1) Rv. i. 51, 9
viii. 102, 21.
2) Rv. iv. 19, 9 (where the son of an
unmarried maiden is exposed to be
eaten by ants)
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,
xxxvii. 4
Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 2,
1, 3
Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, xiv. 1, 1,
8. 14, etc. Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches
Leben, 97.
2. Vamra is the name of a Ṛṣi in the Rigveda.^1 Cf. Vamraka.
1) i. 51, 9
112, 15
x. 99, 5.
Capeller
German
वम्र॑
m.
 , ई॑
f.
 Ameise.
Grassman
German
vamrá, m., 1〉 Ameise (wol wegen des scharfen Saftes, den sie ausspritzen vam)
2〉 Eigenname eines Mannes.
-ás 1〉 yád 〰 atisárpati {711, 21} (neben upajíhvikā). — 2〉 {51, 9} (stávānas).
-ám 2〉 {112, 15} (vipipānám).
-ásya 1〉 2〉 {925, 5} mithunā́ vívavrī.
Stchoupak
French
वम्र-
m.
 fourmi
n.
 d'un auteur védique.