वह्य

From Proto-Indo-European *wóǵʰ-yo-s (“fit to be carried”), from *weǵʰ- (“to carry, draw”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɐɦ.jɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɐɦ.jɐ/

वह्य • (vahyá) stem

1. fit to be borne or drawn
2. fit to bear or draw

वह्य • (vahyá) stem, n

1. "fit to be carried"; a portable bed, couch or palanquin
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda 4.20.3:

     सा भूमिमा रुरोहिथ वह्यं श्रान्ता वधूरिव ॥

     sā bhūmimā rurohitha vahyaṃ śrāntā vadhūriva.

     On earth hast thou alighted as a weary woman seeks her couch.

• Pali: vahya (“vehicle”)
• Prakrit: 𑀯𑁄𑀚𑁆𑀛 (vojjha, “burden”)
  • Magadhi Prakrit:
    • Bengali: বোঝা (bōjha)
  • Sauraseni Prakrit:
    • Hindustani: bojh, bojhā

      Hindi: बोझ, बोझा

      Urdu: بوجھ (bojh), بوجھا (bojhā)

    • → Arabic: بُوجَة (būja)
  • → Kannada: ವಜ್ಜೆ (vajje), ಒಜ್ಜೆ (ojje)

• Monier Williams (1899) “वह्य”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 858.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “वह्य”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vahyá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press