वनस्पति (vanaspati) is a Sanskrit word meaning a forest tree, a stem, trunk, beam, timber, or post, the Soma plant, the Indian fig tree, bignonia Suaveolens, an offering made to the sacrificial post. Its 27 recorded definitions are grouped into 8 contexts, among them A tree in a general sense, A proper name (deity, person, mythical being, or place), A specific type of tree or plant.
1. A forest tree. 2. A large fruit-bearing tree that appears to grow without blossoms.
(H3) [Printed book page 918,1] वन-स्-पति (vana-s-pati)a (वनस् (vanas)- (vanas-)), m. (वनस् (vanas)prob. a form of the gen.; cf.2.वन् (van) and रथस्-पति (rathas-pati)) ‘king of the wood’, a forest-tree (esp. a large tree bearing fruit apparently without blossoms, as several species of the fig, the jack tree &c., but also applied to any tree), RV. &c. &c. [ID=185990]
1. A tree or large forest tree. 2. A trunk, beam, post, or timber. 3. The Soma plant. 4. A sacrificial post.
वनस्पति (vanaspati) [Printed book page 269-1] वनस्पति (vanaspati) vánas-páti, m. (lord of the wood), forest tree; tree; large forest tree bearing fruit apparently without lossoms (C.); trunk, beam, post, timber (V.); lord of plants, Soma plant (V., P.); sacrificial post (V., P.). [ID=15870]
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a large forest tree, especially one that bears fruit without blossoms
वनस्पति (vanaspati) [Printed book page 638-08] वनस्पति (vanaspati)m. a large forest tree, especially one that bears fruit without blossoms, प्रभावस्तंभितच्छयमाश्रितः स वनस्पति (vanaspati)म् (prabhāvastaṃbhitacchayamāśritaḥ sa vanaspatim)R. xii.21. [ID=33455]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A tree. 2. An ascetic.
वनस्पति (vanaspati) [Printed book page 0812-a] वनस्पति (vanaspati)vanaspatii. e.van (= vana),
+ as-pati,m.1. A tree, Utt. Rāmac.
15, 11. 2. An ascetic.
[ID=12680]
— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A tree or large fruit-bearing tree without flowers. 2. A stem, trunk, beam, timber, or sacrificial post. 3. The Soma plant. 4. An epithet of Vishnu.
वनस्पति (vanaspati) [Printed book page 472] वनस्पति (vanaspati)m. tree (lit. lord of the wood), esp. a large tree with fruit, but without flowers; stem, trunk, beam, timber, the sacrificial post; the Soma plant (as the lord of plants); E. of Viṣṇu. [ID=28092]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
tree
वनस्पति (vanaspati) [Printed book page 237-b] vánas-páti,m. tree. [‘lord of the wood’: see 1267 and a and d: perhaps vanas stands for vanar, a subsidiary form of vana,cf.1713.] [ID=3692]
— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary
1. Born of Lata. 2. A king of trees.
[Printed book page 3-147] Vanaspati (II) — born of Latā;1 a king of trees;2 three yonīs of, Gāyatrī, Triṣṭub and Jagatī;3 for homa and śrāddha.4 [Footnote: 1) Br. III. 7. 460; 50. 39.]
1. A tree. 2. A post or pole. 3. A part of a chariot or the chariot itself. 4. A wooden drum. 5. A wooden amulet. 6. The Soma plant.
वनस्पति (vanaspati) [Printed book page 2-241] Vanas-pati, ‘lord of the forest,’ primarily denotes ‘tree,’1 and then ‘post’ or ‘pole.’2 In some passages it is applied either to a part of the chariot or to the chariot as a whole.3 It also means a ‘wooden drum’4 and a ‘wooden amulet,’5 while in some passages6 it denotes the plant par excellence, Soma. [Footnote: 1) Rv. i. 166, 5; iii. 34, 10; v. 7, 4; 41, 8, etc.; Av. xi. 6, 1 (distin- guished from Vīrudh and Oradhi); 9, 24, etc.]
[Footnote: 2) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, vi. 2, 8, 4; Av. ix. 3, 11, etc.]
[Footnote: 3) Rv. ii. 37, 3; iii. 53, 20; vi. 47, 26; Nirukta, ix. 11. See Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 251.]
[Footnote: 4) Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, ix. 12. Cf. Av. xii. 3, 15.]
1. A fruit-bearing tree that blooms without visible blossoms. 2. A tree in general. 3. An ascetic.
वन (vana)स्पति (pati) (vanaspati) [Printed book page 733] वन (vana)स्पति (pati) (vanaspati) m. (-तिः (-tiḥ))
1 A tree that bears fruit but no apparent blossoms, as several species of the fig, the jack, &c.
2 A tree in general.
3 An ascetic.
E. वन (vana) forest, and पति (pati) lord, सुट् (suṭ) augment.
[ID=33536]
— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A tree that bears fruit without apparent blossoms. 2. A tree. 3. A hermit.
वनस्पति (vanaspati) [Printed book page 656-b] वन-स्पति (vana-spati)(तिः) ((tiḥ)) 2. m. A tree bearing fruit without apparent blossoms; a tree; a hermit. [ID=33126]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. A tree bearing fruit without visible blossoms. 2. A tree in general. 3. An ascetic.
वन (vana)स्पति (pati) (vanaspati) [Printed book page 629-a] वन (vana)स्पति (pati) (vanaspati)
m. (-तिः (-tiḥ))
1. A tree that bears fruit but no apparent blossoms, as several species of the fig, the jack, &c.
2. A tree in general. 3. An ascetic.
E. वन (vana) forest, and पति (pati) lord, सुट् (suṭ) augment.
[ID=35040]
— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Tree components, timber, or wooden objects
3 definitions3
A stem, trunk, beam, timber, or post.
[Printed book page 918,2] a stem, trunk, beam, timber, post (esp. the sacrificial post), RV.; VS.; Br. [ID=185990.05]
anything made of wood (esp.partic. parts of a car or carriage, a wooden drum, a wooden amulet, a block on which criminals are executed, a coffin &c.), RV.; AV.; VS. [ID=185990.30]
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Definitions on this page come from 13 works:
Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
